BE A PATRON
Nurturing the
seeds that germinate this path
This book is a prayer made of words.
A field guide for remembering kinship.
A love letter to the living Earth.
This book has been years in the making.
It carries the teachings, stories, and lived experience gathered from classrooms, forests, gardens, kitchens, fire circles, consultations, and communities across many lands. It is a weaving of herbalism, regenerative ecology, ancestral memory, and the human longing to belong, to ourselves, to each other, and to the Earth.
Writing a book like this is not fast work. It is slow, devotional, and deeply relational, just like the living systems it speaks about.
Bringing this book to life is a long-held dream for us: to translate our passion, insights, and lived experience into the written world, and to allow these teachings to travel far beyond us. We envision this as a book that anyone drawn to regenerative philosophy, herbalism, permaculture strategies, and ecological spirituality will consider a foundational text for their library.
It is deeply important to us that this book is first published in both English and Spanish, so it can circulate throughout North, Central, and South America. In the future, our hope is to translate this work into French, Italian, Portuguese, and into the languages of Original Peoples of Mesoamerica — including Kaqchikel, Q’eqchi’, Cabécar, Bribri, and others — so these teachings may continue to move through many cultures and generations.
By becoming a patron, you are not simply supporting a book.
You are midwifing a body of work devoted to regeneration, reciprocity, and remembrance.
Our initial goal is to self publish this book, while actively seeking a publishing house rooted in ecological and social values. Like many independent self publishers, we do not have the financial capacity to fund the full production of a project of this scale. And as working herbalists and educators, we are not able to completely halt our livelihood work in order to write full-time.
Thank you for believing in slow medicine, living systems, and the power of mutual care.
Together, we are growing
something that outlives us.
For this reason, we are choosing to approach this book as a work of art — supported in the way art has long been brought into the world: through the generosity of patrons who believe in the creative process and in the importance of the work itself.
Your support helps fund the time, space, and resources needed to write, edit, illustrate, design, translate, and publish this book with integrity, outside of extractive publishing models and unrealistic timelines. It allows this work to remain rooted in care rather than urgency, depth rather than dilution.
Our patron-funded minimum goal is $95,000 USD, allowing us to complete the writing and production of this project by the end of 2028.
As a patron, you become part of the inner circle of this creation.
You are helping preserve and transmit teachings that reconnect herbal medicine with ecology, healing with land stewardship, and personal wellbeing with collective responsibility. You are helping plant seeds for future generations of students, practitioners, and communities who are searching for a more holistic and relational way of living.
If this vision resonates and if you believe that wellness is relational, that medicine grows from soil and story, and that another way of being is not only possible but already emerging, your support truly matters.
Thank you for walking this path with us.
Timeline
2025
We spent reviewing our Permaculture for the Herbalist’s Path Manual - organizing the chapters, mission, writing flow, branding, interviewing illustrators.
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2026
Working with graphic and web designer. Patron campaign and support completed by January 2027.
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2027
Focus on Writing and Illustration
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Q1 & Q2 2028
Editing, Formatting, Translation, Sensitivity Reading, etc.
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Q3 2028
Social Campaign, Advanced Review Copy, PreSales.
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Q4 2028
Pre-Holiday launch.
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Expense Breakdown
Service
Typical 2026 cost
Details
Editing
$10,000
Includes developmental (big picture), line (style), and copyediting. Translation into Spanish from English.
Formatting
$2,500
High-complexity projects (textbooks) cost more due to manual labor for charts/images.
Book Design & Illustrations
$10,000
Custom designs are essential for detailed explanations, botanical illustrations and book cohesion.
Indexing
$2,000
Professional indexing is standard for scholarly or technical works.
ISBN & Copyright
$400
In the U.S., a single ISBN is $125; a pack of 10 is $295 (on 2026)
Marketing
$10,000
Organic and strategic social campaign, web page design and sales platform
Author Time
$25,000 ($50,000)
Each to Lala Palmieri and Sarah Wu
Printing & Shipping
$7,000
FCC/Recycled, Color, 700-page run of 1,000 units
This is not a crowd fund, but a very select group of patrons who we know, trust, and love, who believe in our work.
We are seeking donations of $1,500 - $20,000 from each patron.
Patronage Framework: Contributions & Benefits
Patron Tiers
All patrons receive mention in print in the book and online, regular updates and text previews.
Rewards will be distributed from Q3 2027, until Q3 2028. Consults and readings may be gifted to friends and family.
Tier I
$1,500 - 3,000
2 signed copies, 1 online wellness consult or reading (with Sarah or Lala).
Tier II
$5,000 - 8,000
3 signed copies, 2 online wellness consults or readings (with Sarah and Lala).
Tier III
$10,000 - 15,000
4 signed copies, 2 online wellness consults or readings (with Sarah or Lala), 1 private 1-hour online class.
Tier IV
$20,000 - 25,000
5 signed copies, 5 online wellness consults or readings, 1 private 3-hour online class, 1 online garden consult.
Private class options
Fermentation
Medicine Making
AstroHerbalism
Regenerative Herbalism
Herbs in the Kitchen
Home Remedies
Herbal First Aid Kit Prep
Medicinal Mycology
Adaptogens
Herbs for:
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Stress
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Digestion
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Immunity
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Reproductive Health