Laura Palmieri, known as Lala, was born and raised in Guatemala. Her deep love for nature and her commitment to conservation and integration have led her to walk many paths, as a biologist, permaculturist, gardener, biotechnologist, teacher, herbalist, cook, fermenter, and healer.

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Plants and fungi are her closest allies. Through them, she helps people reconnect body, mind, and spirit, weaving together the wisdom of many teachers and ancestral traditions with science, spirituality, and elemental transformation.

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Lala teaches courses in permaculture, herbalism, botany, fermentation, and medicinal and edible mushrooms, always centering earth regeneration and making knowledge accessible to as many people as possible. Her passion for food and post-harvest transformation led her to fermentation over a decade ago, where she has explored lactic, acetic, and alcoholic fermentation using both wild and cultivated ingredients native to her bioregion. She is an avid forager, with a deep love for the identification and harvest of wild herbs and fungi, and a devoted advocate for heirloom seeds and bioregional, regenerative nutrition.

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She is the creator of Tejiendo Remedios, a line of herbal products that integrates medicinal plants and fungi to strengthen the immune system, nourish the stress response, and support constitutional balance.

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Lala has been instrumental in establishing several medicinal plant and fungi clinics for the treatment of chronic and acute imbalances, including first aid clinics in Costa Rica and Guatemala, where she currently lives and serves her community, offering personalized consultations, workshops, medicinal extracts, and fermented foods and beverages.