Kat Mackinnon, Meet the Green

Most of Kat's work is as a teacher and a clinician, and she approaches both of those things from a Vitalist perspective. This is a belief that we all have a fundamentally intelligent life force that drives us, and that this is in fact what are constantly in communication with and in service of.

Kat is a certified clinical herbalist and nutritionist through the North American Institute of Medical Herbalism, where she studied with Paul Bergner in the Vitalist tradition. Kat holds intensives on wild foods, medicine making, and botany, and teaches at various other schools, conferences, and apothecaries, in addition to her clinical practice through her business Meet the Green.

She is also a Registered Herbalist through the American Herbalists Guild. She spent 12 years working for the Colorado School of Clinical Herbalism in Lafayette, CO in the capacity of Clinical Program Director, as well as primary faculty for the Fundamentals, Advanced, and Botany programs.

A transplant from the East Coast, Kat has a passion for bioregional herbalism, and in the past 14 years, she has developed a particular love for working with herbs of the Colorado Plateau. She began her formal career with plants by studying forestry at Northern Arizona University, in Flagstaff, AZ, and the plants, animals, and incredible harsh beauty of the Southwest have been one of the great loves of her life ever since.

Her other interests include poetry, ancestral skills, gardening, and delighting in the beauty of the natural world.