Meet the Vervain Team!
Meet Dr. Nicole Pierce, NMD. A Boise native who began her medical career at The National University of Natural Medicine, in Portland, Oregon, Nicole's interest and joy is in connecting people to one another. Co-creating The Vervain Collective was a manifestation of her passions for community building and wellness care. Naturopathic medicine requires an integrative, systematic approach to formulate a treatment plan tailored to the individual; focusing on the cause, not just the symptoms. Effective community building shares a similarly systematic approach. Nicole looks forward to welcoming you to the Vervain plant-based apothecary, to learn about your needs over a cup of tea. You will walk away feeling supported with some advice to incorporate into your health routine and most likely an introduction to a new person or product line you will adore!
Meet Kelsey Jae. Kelsey Jae. Kelsey’s in love with her ever-expanding garden and eager to expand her knowledge of the powers of plant based health through The Vervain Collective community. She explored a career in integrative medicine in college, but chose to become an attorney instead! She has years of experience building partnerships around energy, the environment, and sustainability while focusing on building community and support for local economies and purpose driven ventures. She is a Fellow with the Sustainable Economies Law Center and runs her own private practice, Law for Conscious Leadership, which is committed to supporting others as they develop meaningful livelihoods and create a more resilient economy. She also was a founding partner of the sustainability consulting firm, Warm Springs Consulting. She brings her passion for lifelong learning, infusing love into business relationships, and pursuing new adventures to The Vervain Collective.
Shop Stewards
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Erika
Erika is an herbalist who has studied with The Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine, The Science and Art of Herbalism, as well as other herbalists from around the Pacific Northwest. She is the product/medicine maker, wild crafter, grower, formulator, and herbalist for Wild Ginger farm+forage. In addition to her passion for herbs and herbal medicine she also loves gardening, houseplants, live music, foraging and exploring the Idaho mountains and spending time with her husband and their 3 kids and 2 dogs.
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Jayde
Jayde is a born creatrix, a space holder, poet, herb lover, and a holistic photographer. Despite how "Americanized" her upbringing was, her tribally affiliated lineage and personal interests have led her deeply into a life of recognized ceremony. A life of walking prayer. A life of learning what it is to be human, creature, and allowance to become within multidimensional magnitudes. She sees the ever evolving world as a sprout from the seed of Love, perceiving the world through the mind of a young philosopher and always returning to the innate divinity of it all.
Kayla
Kayla loves the magic of the natural world deeply. She explores the intricacies of herbal medicine through education, art and adventuring into the wild. In 2020 she completed The Science and Art of Herbalism course and started her journey toward a more holistic way of healing. She is motivated by discovering new ways of settling and nourishing the nervous system. Her discoveries include daily movement, the importance of ritual, the depths and intricacies of the womb, making herbal allies, and building an understanding and loving community. Her specialty is creating effective daily rituals that nourish the soul as well as attuning to the cycles of the womb and its complexities. She strives for collective healing and knowledge sharing. She believes that connecting to our ancestors and traditional ways of healing is the answer to this healing.
Kayla is a certified Womb Steam Priestess. She has recently completed a Womb Steam Apprenticeship with Eternal Womb that ended in an intricate initiation into Priestesshood. She is finally ready to share her ancient rituals and healing knowledge. She invites all people who own a womb to come experience the gentle, healing waters of a Womb Steam. This modality is for everyone!
Sign up to do a womb steam with Kayla through our Appointments page.
Kindra
Kindra stands as a devoted steward of both plants and people. Her journey began in the mossy, magical woods of New England where she first discovered the enchanting power of plants. From nurturing seedlings as a farmer at Dry Creek Ranch to crafting remedies, she learned that every leaf has a lesson and every root a remedy. This passion blossomed into a deep fascination with the healing arts, leading her to become a yoga teacher and body-worker.
In Kindra’s practices, she blends ancient wisdom with modern techniques, including the Rossiter method of myofascial release. Each session is a dance between body and spirit, a chance to release tension and reconnect with one’s inner self.
Kindra believes that wellness is a tapestry, intricately woven from the threads of nature, movement, and mindfulness. Her mission is to guide her community on their wellness journeys, using the treasures of the earth and the wisdom of our bodies. Kindra looks forward to deepening her holistic wellness practices as a shop steward at Vervain.
Jaimi
Jaimi is a maker, a herbalist, a naturalist, a crafter, a traveller, a moon worshiper, and is perpetually learning something new. At any point in time, she may be making stained glass, crafting a tincture, volunteering as an Idaho Master Naturalist, flying to Amsterdam, hosting a goddess circle, or fashioning a beaded necklace in her studio!
Jaimi was raised on a farm in Southern California amongst walnut trees and orange groves. The abundance of plants and animals filled her with a deep love of nature. She has always been fascinated by how plants grow and transform into flowers, food, and medicine. As a child, one of her first memories was an attempt at making wine from grape juice! She has been creating ever since. Jaimi was led to become a Master Herbalist in 2016 after Western Medicine left her disappointed. She opened Wildish Botanicals, making custom tinctures, fire cider and salves to barter with the shops in her community and to promote the health of friends and family. Since moving to Boise, she has become more attuned to the rhythm of nature. Jaimi’s
affinity for the moon, following Luna’s cycles of manifesting and letting go, took on a ritualistic quality. She inherited her beloved goddess circle and began building the Wildish version.
Gathering like-minded women in monthly gatherings nurtures a deep community that celebrates the divine feminine found within the mirror of the moon, Mother Earth, and each other.