Welcome to Plantdorks 2025!
If you are new to plants or being in the wild places, you have come to the right place! If you are an old plantdork like me, with respect, I invite you to join us because you know as well as I do, we can NEVER stop learning about plants! I have been studying, teaching, foraging, and connecting with plants in the PNW since 1999. This is my home and teaching deep, long term relationships with the plants here is a foundational passion and commitment.
My Experience…
I love plants, waters and landscapes of the Pacific Northwest. I’ve cultivated over 25 years of experience with native plants, organic gardening/farming, plant fibers/dyes, ethnobotany, permaculture, arboriculture, plant science and emotional/physical survival skills. As a steward, I carry a deep respect and love for the natural world. My primary passion is connecting humans to wild places through plants as a vehicle to inner awareness, deep connection to the earth and confidence with plants as allies.
My deep love of plants, learning about and from Indigenous Peoples, inspired me to complete a bachelor’s degree at Western Washington University in Ethnobotany Stewardship Education in 2006. Other passions include leading mindfulness and intuitive tracking expeditions, PNW Geology, birdwatching, playing music, wilderness medicine, homesteading skills and rites of passage/initiation work. I also has a background in native plant landscaping, horse packing/trail guiding, teaching mindfulness meditation and whitewater rafting.
After working in transformational outdoor programs for many years, I decided to complete a Masters in Counseling Psychology and is an LMHC (Licensed Mental Health Counselor) with a specialization in ecological grief, trauma and anxiety/panic disorders. I combine my therapeutic expertise with many years as a wilderness guide to provide transformational experiences to support self-realization, community connection and relationship with the earth.
If you wish to see my full CV, please click on this box!
Please go to my classes page to see what is upcoming or contact me a [email protected] for a contract program.
I would like to acknowledge that I am living and working on traditional territories of the Snoqualmie Tribe, Tulalip Tribes, Upper Skagit Tribe, Confederation of the Colville Tribes, Confederate Tribes and Bands of the Yakima Nation and Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe. I pay my respects to them and their Elders of the past and present. I will do my absolute best to respect these Peoples and not appropriate cultural practices or teach about their uses of plants as an absolute authority. When possible, available, I will form (and have) relationships with respect with local tribes whom lands I visit with my programs. I will respect all laws, requests, boundaries and teachings offered from these Sovereign Nations.
Yours From the Green,
Lindsay Letitia Huettman
