Instructors
Alex Queathem
Crystal Stevens
Monique Kirksey
Rona Leah
Co-Founders Alex Queathem & Crystal Stevens
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Alex Queathem Crystal Stevens
Alex Queathem is a bioregional herbalist, botanist, and gardener. She is the administrator, teacher, as well as a graduate of the Columbines School of Botanical Studies. She is the co-founder and one of the primary instructors of the Tend & Flourish School located in the confluence of Missouri and Illinois. Alex is currently studying biology with a focus in botany and horticulture. Many of her jobs have been plant oriented ranging from landscaping, biodynamic farming to currently teaching field botany and ecology. She is a volunteer educator at the Missouri Botanical Garden's Litzsinger Road Ecology Center. When she’s not shuffling paperwork around for the schools, she is restoring 4.5 acres of land in Cedar Hill, MO back to native glade/prairie and woodland habitat. Alex also enjoys gardening, foraging, and developing new products for her company, Tending the Wild Botanicals.
Crystal Stevens is an author, folk herbalist, organic farmer, permaculturalist, and multidisciplinary artist/art teacher.
Stevens lives along the bluffs of the Mighty Mississippi River in Godfrey, Ilinois with her husband and 2 children. Stevens is the author of Grow Create Inspire, published by New Society Publishers in the fall of 2016 and Worms at Work, published in 2017. Her third book, Your Edible Yard, will be released in spring of 2020. Stevens speaks at conferences and Mother Earth News Fairs across the United States. She has been teaching a Resilient Living workshop series for over a decade. Stevens is a permaculture educator with the Permaculture Women’s Guild. She and her husband, Eric Stevens, co-founded FLOURISH which encompasses a farm, a plant nursery, an apothecary, design services and educational programming including a Permaculture Design Course, and dozens of workshops throughout each season.
Crystal Stevens is an author, folk herbalist, organic farmer, permaculturalist, and multidisciplinary artist/art teacher.
Stevens lives along the bluffs of the Mighty Mississippi River in Godfrey, Ilinois with her husband and 2 children. Stevens is the author of Grow Create Inspire, published by New Society Publishers in the fall of 2016 and Worms at Work, published in 2017. Her third book, Your Edible Yard, will be released in spring of 2020. Stevens speaks at conferences and Mother Earth News Fairs across the United States. She has been teaching a Resilient Living workshop series for over a decade. Stevens is a permaculture educator with the Permaculture Women’s Guild. She and her husband, Eric Stevens, co-founded FLOURISH which encompasses a farm, a plant nursery, an apothecary, design services and educational programming including a Permaculture Design Course, and dozens of workshops throughout each season.
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Monique Kirksey also known as The Citrine Goddess is an Intuitive Alchemist & Yogi. What that means is that she loves to transform everything she touches with her favorite being herbs! She is an herbalist, author, Intuitive Conversations podcast creator, and offers intuitive guidance and coaching. With a combined background of self study, bio-chemistry & is a graduate of the Herbal Foundations course with Tend & Flourish school, Monique offers various classes and services and is an instructor of the Herbal Foundations Program.
You’ll find her creating kitchen magic making herbal infusions, body butters, elixirs and tinctures that promote self love, mental clarity & spiritual harmony! Monique believes in the magic of speaking intention into every action that one makes and she shares that with her clients. 
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Rona Leah
Rona Leah is the founding owner of Celeste Farm, a small farm focusing on culinary and medicinal herbs as well as heirloom vegetables in the meadows of the Midwest. Rona is a folk herbalist as well as an accomplished cook with a focus on medicinal wild foods and farm to table recipes. An advocate for preserving food traditions and ending food deserts. Portrait artist. Writer. Environmentalist. Curious always. Rona offers Farm to Table Catering.
Rona teaches our Food as Medicine and Cooking with Herbs sessions.
Rona teaches our Food as Medicine and Cooking with Herbs sessions.