Laura helps set realistic achievable goals tailored to individual lifestyle to support successful steps in realizing wellness goals. Client collaborative care with commitment to evidence-based practice promoting accessible results with sustainable change.

Owner, Wellness Natural Products, Organic Gardener, Community Educator in homestead arts, farmstead arts, botanical medicine, and more. Farmsteading offered the perfect path to connect with my food source and engage the community in this meaningful connection through workshops, classes, farm tours, farm events and goat rentals for weed abatement. Relocation to steward 140 acres of conservation easement was the final hurrah and crowning achievement to learn wild crafting and foraging of edible, medicinal and useful plants, while protecting a patch of the planet and its several hundred rare and endangered species. Goat milk soap, natural deodorant, bug spray, chapstick and herbal apothecary is available online and locally in the greater roanoke and charlotte areas.

Sole designer for biennial product catalog, cover, illustration, layout design. Herbal Vitality, Inc has proudly served the Integrative Medicine community for 18 years by offering a wide selection of liquid botanical extracts. Our insistence on quality raw materials and our respect for our planet, our clients, and our employees results in consistently functional vibrant products that you can trust.

Location portraits, animal portraits, intimate landscapes, botanical photo documentation and story telling through imagery. Muted tones, location portraiture, individuals and families, capturing plants, plates and places in their natural setting.

The Healing Garden: Cultivating and Handcrafting Herbal Remedies is an essential guide to growing and harvesting herbs, making herbal medicines, and practicing sustainable hands-on herbalism. It will help you design the herb garden of your dreams and grow 30 of the most healing medicinal plants on the planet with time-tested organic methods. This book is written for home gardeners and anyone looking to bring the therapeutic benefits of healing herbs into their garden, kitchen, and apothecary.In The Healing Garden’s 440 luscious pages, you’ll be treated to thorough herbal profiles, step-by-step photographic tutorials, and over 80 recipes for herbal teas, tinctures, syrups, pestos, broths, salves, and beyond. You’ll learn how to transform your garden harvests into botanical medicine and herbal delicacies like lavender lemon bundt cake, calendula tulsi chai, and nettles pâté. The book also includes household first aid remedies for life’s daily upsets—sunburns, bug bites, scrapes, rashes, cuts, and muscle aches. And you’ll encounter recipes to address common ailments like colds, coughs, anxiety, insomnia, stress, indigestion, and more.

Laura has completed over 2000 hours of herbal studies with Appalachian herb schools, in practice as a Functional Herbalist since 2018. She continues her study of botanical medicine with a focus on Women’s Health under Aviva Romm, M.D. Laura has a focus in botanical and culinary medicine for family medicine as this relates to trauma, anxiety/depression, addiction, nutrition and various acute conditions.Rooted in the teachings of Edgar Cayce from age 6, Laura grew up in nature and an environment of natural healing.  WWOOFing in the desert southwest juxtaposed ‘the familiar’ with scant resources, birthing a passion for interdependence, beauty and resourcefulness through permaculture, water harvesting, growing food and medicine. This began a decade long journey to self care, through hard work and passionate living, where botanical medicine found heart.Laura is sensitive to our gentle natures, offering healing alternatives with gentle medicines, herbal teas, and lifestyle changes to gradually embrace self care. Life is a practice. Create room for yourself.

The N.C. Herb Association is an official state commodity group, with advisors from NC State University and the NC Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Its purpose is to promote the production, marketing, and use of herbs and herb related products through education and research.

Compiled and published the visually rich (and copyright compliant) 256-page biography of Warren Robbins, Founder and Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art.Organized efforts to correctly license rights to the massive number of photographs illustrated in the book. Adobe InDesign platform used for book layout; 70+ custom designed spreads.Cover, layout and graphic design.Managed small team and pre-press for publication of private circulation; 1000 books, 2006.Second hard back publication available for purchase in Smithsonian Museum of African Art Gift Shop. Man for All Reasons, Letters of a Visionary. 345 page book with letters, articles, index, list of influential contacts and chronology; Published 2014.

Photographic Art documentation of discovered 500+ drawings, watercolors, oil paintings of native New Orleans regional artist, Martha Ambrose. Digital archive; Online print gallery, Facilitate collection for publication.

Sculpted and dyed contemporary fossils of leaves.Managed inventory, shipping and receiving, art handling. Maintained and improved processing for nationwide retail and wholesale orders and art shows. Hired and trained temporary help and assistants under deadlines. Delivered orders to new and ongoing galleries and retail clients, Quickbooks invoicing.Maintained and improved studio operations; streamlined packing and shipping, telecommunications, and studio space.

Reevis Mountain School, located in the eastern Superstition Wilderness of Arizona, provides a place of inspiration, peace, and reverence for nature, where students and interns can learn natural healing and self-reliance skills, experience growing their own food, develop spiritual awareness, enjoy a spirit of community, and live healthfully.

Co-developed the Content Management System for a non-profit online community of peer supported recovery from substance abuse.Designed a media rich social networking site that offers both user-generated content and a staff of regular recovery bloggers. Facilitated theme development, graphics and avatar development, video compression, Flash animation and image optimization. Managed and advised client of non-profit and Board of Directors in financial strategy for staging site development.Hired web management and content development team.Client management involved task delegation, outsourcing to independent contractors, project management, email blasts, blog and community outreach. Managed all aspects of web development; CMS maintenance, interface development, HTML/CSS, SEO and browser compatibility. (http://thesecondroad.org/) or (http://www.thesecondroad.org/signup.php)

Digital Product Photography for biennial hard copy and online catalog offering 7000 products.Handled product, digital capture, file management, color corrections, batch processing, digital automation, alpha-numeric coding, and clipping paths to process images on MacOS platform with Photoshop CS. Facilitated a substantial professional lighting studio equipment upgrade; streamlined production with superior image quality.(http://www.danforthdiamond.com/) and (http://www.danforthdiamond.com/diamond-rings-with-matching-wedding-rings/)

Oversee all of VCU Department of Photography administrative tasks. Managed student relations for prospective, incoming and current students, faculty and staff.Picked up and processed mail.Handled interdepartmental communications.Responded to email inquiries and phone calls regarding administrative issues.