Western Herbalism = a beautiful, empowering Canadian choice for self care~ Holistics at our fingertips.
- stonehouseholisitics
- Jan 10
- 4 min read
Nothing beats LOCAL.
LOCAL IS EVERYTHING in a country bent on restricting access.
By local, I mean Canadian grown sourced formulated, prepared & the know-how & wisdom based on western herbalism ancestral values of Holistics.
We don't need to lower standards by outsourcing traditional herbalism - we can utilize what grows ALL AROUND US.
Western herbalism is chosen for its LOCAL holistic (mind /body/spirit) natural approach, using European/Indigenous North American plants to support body systems, treat root causes, and offer gentler (do no harm) choices - to pharmaceuticals, drawing on ancient Greek, Roman, and Native American herbal plant medicine traditions for wellness, immune support, and vitality.
We choose Western Herbalism for its:
Holistic & Root-Cause Focus: It’s aims are to treat the whole person and restore overall balance, addressing the underlying causes of imbalance rather than just targeting symptoms. Symptoms are the indicators of imbalance – the sign posts that direct a Herbalist to the appropriate plant tools.
In fact, MANY of the wild medicinal plants growing in Canada today were brought across the ocean as medicine – roots, seeds and plant slips that were brought here, planted into back kitchen door herbal medicinal gardens that have now gone wild and become naturalized. This makes us literally surrounded in the oldest yet freshest vitality infused source of medicinal food ingredients for human health. Right IN OUR COMMUNITY.
When you choose local grown, or wildcrafted and Canadian grown plant ingredients you are practicing the oldest method of dietary immune system support possible and once common knowledge as the BEST– by choosing local YOUR community where plants grow with targeted compounds from it’s own community to supply the humans utilizing it as food/medicine the very compounds and energetics to provide the most intense valid plant phenols terpenes & active compounds as possible. We glean from our local community that which very most will match our needs – this is very ancient herbalism tenants & known energetics of old-world herbalism.
EAT from where you live to thrive.
Make your dietary & medicinal food choices based on natural seasonal patterns, growth, harvesting, preparing, and formulating based on what you are surrounded in – in your COMMUNITY. It used to be called the 100-mile rule of eating. Following the natural ebb and flow of Canadian 4 seasonal habits eating & rituals.
When we choose Western Herbalism or North American Herbalism, we keep our supply chain short – we have clearer access to the freshest ingredients. We are like our great grandparents who survived many challenges both economic, cultural, health crisis’s and food shortages by having local supply and they KNEW THINGS - life skills of survival.
Local herbalism means less chance of interrupted access - Local Supply Local Ingredients is the true time-tested practice of self sustainability.
No conglomerate commercial manufacturing, no middleman, no capsules, pellets, no fillers, no flow agents, no barely there active ingredients, no listeria infested ingredients, no e-coli tainted formulas, no recalls, no irradiated herbals at the border - that kills active plant compounds, no massively marked-up products as sold by practitioners or clinicians that have to get their cut on their prescribed manufactured supplements..
Herbalism | Homesteading | Herb & Veg Gardening | Frugal Living | Preserving Food| Scratch Cooking| Re-using | Up-cycling |Repairing |Recycling
Are not just aesthetics for social media accounts they are actual LIFE SKILLS.
Just posting reels about pretty ideas is not going to serve you are your family during these times in 2026 and beyond.
The writing is on the wall.
The allopathic healthcare so-called system is a literal nightmare, emergency care at hospitals is like something out of a dramatic movie during a catastrophic event. Surgery wait times, doctor office dramatics and appointment wait times are horrific.
Legislative over-reach and restriction of access to commercial manufactured supplements is already here. Thousands of companies have gone out of business in Canada and pulled out of supplying Canada with their products due to changes. The supply & dependence on commercial manufactured clinician supplement products is about to go DRY & even drier still *
(*Bill C-47, enacted as law in Canada in 2023 – craftily hidden in

2 budgets without public awareness for reasons of hiding what the Liberal federal gov’t was doing creating lack of transparency - demands that natural health options be treated identical to pharmaceuticals.)
You know who’s thriving though? And who will continue to thrive?
Those who lean LESS on societal faulty restrictive systems.
Families who practice local tradtional western herbalism, holistic rituals and traditional methods of maintaining wellness regularly. Those that practice prevention with early plant-based interventions and use tools that redefine ‘getting better’ as more self-reliant skill set.
Families who take their health diet lifestyle and attitudes of independence seriously and in their own hands.
Those that stock their at-home apothecaries or have learned how to grow, wildcraft, prepare and administer herbalism wellness tools.
Never has there been a wiser time to get to know your experienced, local herb farming, wildcrafting compounding HERBALIST who utilizes Canadian ingredients for the highest possible wellness outcomes & for so many reasons.
You get to choose.
The choices of our ancestors, the skills of self sufficiency that empower us.
Use the allopathic system for crisis or emergency support but KNOW how to support your family with holistic tools of at-home health care too.
Knowledge is power and we live in a time where information is at our fingertips.
Kelly, StoneHouse Holistics - Jan. 10 2025
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