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What exactly is Milkweed Herbarium? It is a home-based business built on knowledge and medicine. Educational offerings range from single evening classes to nature walks and multi-week intensives. My select apothecary includes punk rock-inspired and custom tea blends, as well as handcrafted flower essences. These items can be shipped within the U.S., or picked up by appointment or during class by registered students. For details and requests, email dani@milkweedherbarium.com

Milkweed Herbarium is proudly owned and operated by me, Dani Otteson. I am a Colorado herbalist who offers courses, herb walks, and study tools for budding herb folk. I am the editor of a quarterly zine, entitled Aceae: A Family of Plant Tales in which people drawn to plants are invited to share their stories, visual art, and dreams. My passions for plant families, language, and history provide a unique perspective in medicinal plant education.

I unknowingly began my journey into botanical healing in 2004 in the world of natural products retail. The allure of flower essences, herbs, and beautiful food inspired me to cultivate a relationship with the plant kingdom. I began my formal study of herbs in 2012 with Shelley Torgove of Artemisia & Rue, working and teaching in the apothecary and earning certificates in both Community Herbalism and Women’s Ethnobotanical Studies. I hold a BA in History from MSU Denver, and am fascinated by antiquity and myth. Milkweed is my nearest and dearest plant ally.

Milkweed Herbarium offers punk rock-inspired herbal tea blends, handcrafted flower essences, and zines through this website. I host classes and intensives at a variety of locations in the Denver metro area. You can find me on instagram @milkweedherbarium.

I hope you’ll join me!

PS: If you’re asking yourself, “What is a milkweed and why are you obsessed with it?”

I’m glad you asked! Milkweed is indeed very near and dear to my heart. I wrote a whole blog post to give you an idea; check it out here!

PPS: If you’re asking yourself, “What is an herbarium and why do you use that term?”

I’m glad you asked that too!

An herbarium is a collection of preserved plants and data used for botanical study. Generally an herbarium would be housed within a room or building – they are often located within universities or botanic gardens. However, making the study and use of plants accessible and relevant to others is precisely what I’m passionate about. I aim to bring the concept of the herbarium to life within local communities <3

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Dani Otteson
A tea blend for heartache: Holy Basil, Wood Betony A tea blend for heartache: Holy Basil, Wood Betony, Oat Straw, Violet Leaf, Lavender, and Rose Petals 🖤 grate in fresh ginger to steep for 20 minutes and add honey to taste 🍯
Tincture-making 🌿⚗️✨🖤 Tincture-making 🌿⚗️✨🖤
Mentzelia nuda 🌟   Bractless blazingstar is Mentzelia nuda 🌟  

Bractless blazingstar is a gorgeous evening bloomer that carries medicine of inner luminosity and motivation. Blazingstar blooms from late afternoon until dawn – it is adapted to a dry and gravelly habitat. Blazingstar flowers make their own way.
 
For those who are in search of direction and inspiration, blazingstar flower essence lights the way. Bractless blazingstar shows us how to bloom without the light of external validation; how to do things in the patterns true to us as individuals. 

Flower essence available on the website 🤍
Engelmann’s Milkweed, Asclepias engelmanniana ✨
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