Wild Faith Wellness
provides herbs to the people through intuitive, pleasureful, accessible, justice-based education & remedies.
A femme-led herbal business prioritizing love & liberation.
Wild Faith Herbal Wellness began in the fall of 2015 in South Burlington, on occupied Wabanaki Land, as an organic herb farm. With stewardship, wild-crafting and honorable harvesting at the core of Wild Faith's values, this femme-led herbal business holds a commitment to love, justice, stewardship and liberation. From 2015-2020, Wild Faith Herbal Wellness started as an herb farm, growing beautiful organic medicinal plants, and selling herbal remedies at farmers' markets, local stores and online.
In 2020, Wild Faith transitioned from farming as the main enterprise to offering education, consultations and herbal remedies as the primary functions of the business. You can find the educational offerings, intuitive herbal and flower essence consultations, and herbal remedies on this website.
Wild Faith Wellness is dedicated to creating access to culturally appropriate, pleasure-centered, justice-based education and herbal products. Wild Faith acknowledges the deep disparities in our world, and the specific positionality to power we as a white-run organization have. Wild Faith will continue to navigate dismantling oppressive systems through providing by-donation clinical and educational offerings to BIPOC/Trans folx, as well as continue to build a platform that uplifts BIPOC/Trans voices. Here are the tangible goals of Wild Faith Wellness to continue the essential work of dismantling white supremacist//colonial systems. Wild Faith Wellness is dedicated to creating an accountable community founded on radical love, compassion, pleasure and courage.
Kenzie Khaliq
~ Founder & Steward ~
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Herbalist, Pleasure Activist, Witch, Organizer, Farmer, Wild Crafter, Medicine Maker, Herbal Justice Advocate
I am a queer herbal witch.
I engage in spirit and prayer to dismantle my own forms of oppression.
I am a gender fluid femme land steward. I aspire to be my ancestor’s wildest dream, and an ancestor that future generations can be proud of.
I am a pleasure activist engaging in herbal justice and trauma healing in Vermont and the Northeast.
I love teaching about reclaiming the body through sexuality in herbalism. For 10 years, I engaged in herbal justice through solidarity actions as our local VT Chapter of Herbalists Without Borders’ co-coordinator.
Now, I am raising two silkie mer-children in Montpelier, VT growing herbs for my family and my herbal clients.
I offer intuitive herbal consultations to enable your own ability to heal through plants, food, ritual and magic. I include flower essences that I create myself in my consultations if desired. You can also receive a flower essence consult on its own.
I believe in you. You belong. You deserve you feel whole, connected and loved. I am here to remind you of your innate magic and intuitive nature that is in you.
Photo by Jade Xian of Cloud Fossil Crunch
Experience
In 2016, I graduated as a clinical herbalist from Vermont Center of Integrative Herbalism’s 3 year program, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing healthcare resources grounded in Nature. VCIH brings clinical herbalism to community practice through the weaving of science, spirit and grassroots activism. They provide one of the nation’s most extensive clinical training opportunities in herbal medicine, rooted in deep connection with the plants and place.
I co-founded Burlington’s herb shop and educational space, Railyard Apothecary, in 2016. In 2017, I was a working member of Burlington Community Herbal Clinic for a year, an herbalist-owned cooperative practice based out of Railyard Apothecary.
For the last seven years, I have been offering herbal consultations, class offerings to children and adults, and crafting magical pleasureful remedies for the community. I am currently deepening my understanding of sexuality, sexual wellness and sexual education through a justice-based lens.
In 2020, I completed a full spectrum doula training with Birthing Advocacy Doula Training (BADT) specializing in fertility & post partum support for folks pushed to the margins. I also trained in crisis response with Project Let’s in 2021. I also completed King Yaa’s program, Birthing Beyond The Binary, which was a transformational course on creating queer and trans affirming care within reproductive spaces. In 2022 I took a course in Decolonial Facilitation with King Yaa & Eri Guajuardo Johnson of Birth Bruja. In 2023, I completed a six month internship with Tessa Michaela, an herbal midwife who focuses on queer and gender affirming care in birth work. I am always excited to continue my education as a perpetual student, especially in the worlds of reproductive care and herbs.