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Meet Your Gardener
Cultivating Confidence Through Gardening & Herbal Education
Jodi is a certified herbalist, gardener, and educator with over a decade of hands-on experience growing food and medicinal plants. She studied herbalism and permaculture before opening The Urban Homesteading Store in Canada in 2013. Today, she continues that work through HealWise, providing practical gardening guidance and research-backed herbal education for everyday growers.
With a background in regenerative gardening and farming and a love of plant sciences Jodi blends her gardening experience with accessible, evidence-informed teaching. Her work helps gardeners build skills, confidence, and long-term resilience ,one season at a time.
Experience, Not Trends
Jodi’s relationship with plants grew through years of hands-on learning, teaching, and experimentation across multiple climates and growing conditions. She has worked with medicinal herbs from seed to harvest, applied permaculture principles to lived landscapes, and supported gardeners seeking practical, honest guidance.
That experience shaped a simple philosophy:
Gardening education should be useful, adaptable, and grounded in reality.
HealWise was created to bridge the gap between overly simplified advice and overly technical instruction and offering education that explains the why, not just the how.
Why HealWise Exists
HealWise supports people who want to grow more confidently, whether they’re starting their first seeds, improving garden systems, or exploring medicinal herbs.
Here, you won’t find Instagram perfectionism or instant solutions. Instead, but you will discover:
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Practical gardening education
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Research-informed herbal insights
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Clear explanations that build lasting understanding
The goal isn’t just a successful garden this year, it’s skills you can carry forward for life.
A Practical, Research-Backed Approach
Jodi’s work blends:
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Hands-on gardening and growing experience
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Science-based herbal education
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Regenerative and permaculture-informed practices
Her teaching style is warm, informative, and approachable, designed to make gardening and herbal learning feel empowering rather than overwhelming.
What You’ll Find at HealWise
HealWise currently focuses on educational resources, including:
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Downloadable gardening ebooks and guides
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Seed-starting and seasonal growing education
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Medicinal herb growing and usage insights
Future offerings may include courses and consultations, but the heart of HealWise remains committed to accessible, experience-driven education.
Growing From the Ground Up
Jodi now gardens and writes from Louisiana, where she continues to learn directly from the land. HealWise is built on the belief that gardens are teachers of patience, adaptability, and self-trust.
This is a space for growing skills, confidence, and connection one garden, one plant, one season at a time.
