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Toadstool Botanicals is here to bring you closer to plants & fungi through plant medicine and cosmetics.

This business is owned and solely run by Rachel - a queer woman, herbalist, farmer, and forager living in the mid-Atlantic region of the US.

05/01/2026

Mid spring / Beltane — feeling beyond grateful for the beings that come into our life at the perfect times, the growth we have already experienced this season and the mistakes that we learn from. Grateful for the future harvests and abundance, and most importantly, the community we build along the way. In April, we sold 300+ plants to neighbors and friends, and I am forever honored to help feed the people and pollinators in our city. Announcements about summer, flowers, and market schedules to come!

02/26/2026

a new growing season begins 🌿✨

as we move into 2026, the Toadstool apothecary is still flourishing; roots deep, jars full, magic intact. but this year, the focus turns gently toward flowers.

you’ll start seeing more seasonal stems, small-batch arrangements, and other botanical treats from us… and, come early Spring, you can find these blooms at — a sweet continuation of a collaboration that keeps unfolding.

Alongside herbs and flowers, you’ll still see my passion for foraging, growing food, and hands-on plant education woven through it all.

In equally exciting news, so grateful to be a new member of this season, alongside so many growers doing beautiful work in our city.

thank you for being here as this little toadstool continues to fruit. more soon. 🍄✨

(Featuring various projects in the works, including sprouts, pressed flowers, and the controlled chaos of my basement seed starting operation)

08/27/2022

Some coastal foraging on Hatteras Island yesterday… but I’m back in the DMV folks! Last chance to join me & the amazing farmers at for a foraging walk & smoke cleansing bundle/tea workshop.
In basket: juniper leaves and berries, pine needles, green pine cones, assorted shells, and baby agave plants

Ticket link: https://gathering-springs-farm.square.site/product/foraging-with-rachel/164?cs=true&cst=custom

08/22/2022

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT! Foraging and food friends, I am so stoked to be co-hosting a foraging workshop w/ this Sunday, August 28th — swipe for event description and location (DC friends, hit me up if you want tix and a ride out to VA). Link for Tix:
https://gathering-springs-farm.square.site/product/foraging-with-rachel/164?cs=true&cst=custom

07/15/2022

REISHI BABY!! Wow, the bounty of summer is coming in *hot* these last few weeks. It’s the time of year where I could be (have been) harvesting and processing for 12 hours a day and still not get everything done!
Updates:
-I’ve added to my Etsy page finally and will continue to do so, including pressed flowers! DC folks if you want non-Etsy pricing hit me up via DM
-I am also officially a seller on .market , an awesome app that features foragers from all over. You’ll be to find some seasonal fresh products there and i offer free local pickup 🍄
-I have TONS of fresh edible flowers available (DM me), which will be featured at ‘s event this Sunday!
All of these news flashes could have been there own posts but it’s harvest season and this farmer puts off Instagram for weeeeeeeks.
DM me for flowers and berries etc, check out foraged and Etsy and my gardens for what’s growing. New foraging classes coming after my current poison ivy heals! 🍄🌱

06/22/2022

First foraging class in the books! Yesterday was awesome, I hung out with ~18 folks and talked a lot about just a few of the many edible and medicinal plants growing around us! We also covered basic safety & ethics around foraging. Foraging walks and wild plant ID is something I have been doing with friends for years but had never actually hosted a formal class, it was so cool to see the event sell out quickly and have so many folks interested in foraging! We ended the solstice with picking wine berries and it was absolutely lovely. (Insta cut out 2 people on either side of this group pic and I’m so sorry 😭) Keep an eye out for more classes in the coming weeks, and thank you SO much for the wonderful participants yesterday, y’all were a perfect first class 🍄🥰
Photo cred for pics 2 and 3 goes to , thank you so much for snapping!

06/17/2022

EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT! Join me for a chill, informative, and delicious Summer Solstice Foraging Walk this Tuesday in Fort Totten. Link in bio for tickets, we will take a stroll through the woods, learn the basic ethics of a foraging, and I’ll show you some easy and delicious foods that are growing all around DC right now. Come equipped with your bug repellant of choice, a cool drink, and any foraging/plant questions you may have! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/368983067287

05/30/2022

Spent the last few days in Asheville, Great Smoky Mountains, and Tennessee. Asheville gifted us serviceberries and MASSIVE wood ear fungi (like, seriously the biggest most perfect ones I’ve ever seen), and Tennessee made me fall in love with moss all over again. Feeling refreshed & ready to get back to my gardens — Mugwort Workshop is now this Saturday, tix are still available so grab them while they last!

05/17/2022

**Mugwort Workshop POSTPONED to June 4th**
Living and growing food in a group house is wonderful, except when half of us are exposed to COVID among other nasty spring viruses in the same week. Does it feel like everyone in DC possibly has Covid right now or is that just my bubble? In the interest of keeping everyone safe, I am postponing my mugwort workshop to June 4th. For folks who have already purchased tickets, I’ll be in contact with you today to make sure you can attend the rescheduled date or get a full refund!

My hometown is in northern New Jersey, and this weekend I was back there for my grandfather’s funeral. As always I find peace and meaning in the woods… so of course I foraged while up there🌿I took advantage of NJ’s spring season being a solid 2-3 weeks behind DC, and foraged some fresh new mugwort and newly emerged stinging nettles. Came home to absolutely gorgeous strawberries and my final round of spring seeds germinating beautifully.

Last pic is a collection of plants I had the privilege of donating to ‘s community garden for youth in Columbia Heights. My favorite part of growing so many plants is that I get to give so many away and spread the love!

05/06/2022

WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT! (Link in Bio)
Mugwort: Honoring Resilience & Resistance
May 21st, 4pm-6ish

Tickets: https://bit.ly/3vOmkmk

25% of ticket sales will go directly to local abortion funds in critical regions (exact orgs TBA in the next week)

Many herbalists and plant-folk have been thinking about mugwort this week. Even if you weren’t familiar with this amazing herb before, you may have seen snippets about it this week as a potential tool for abortion. Here’s the thing, and I am echoing what tons of (far more experienced) herbalists are saying here: I hope you never have to think about what plants to take to end a pregnancy. I hope I never do. And I would never suggest using mugwort or any other herb as an alternative to abortion under the care of a doctor. Current, legal abortion through medication or a medical procedure is extremely safe and effective, and that’s why everything happening is so terrifying.
The alternatives are not always effective, and oftentimes harmful or fatal.

HOWEVER— mugwort has a lot to teach us. It’s among the first abundant, wild herbs I began learning and using in my herbalism journey, and it features heavily in the tinctures I make (Hoppy Dreams!). It is a beautiful ally to folks for menstruation, pregnancy, and a plethora of other uses. It’s Latin name is artemisia vulgaris, a nod to Artemis, a goddess of the moon, childbirth, and the wilderness.

Mugwort often grows in disturbed places, places that have been uprooted and destroyed repeatedly. It’s a tenacious plant, it often grows at the edges of forests and fields, in the ‘between’ spaces of nature. It prefers full sunlight, but persists in darker conditions. Mugwort knows what resiliency truly means- that we must continue to grow and survive at the margins, and push our way towards light, towards thriving.

All this to say- I am hosting a mugwort workshop in my lovely garden/baby urban farm in North Petworth. Space is limited & I have some sliding scale spots available. Watch this feed in the coming weeks for lots more mugwort info, how it ties into reproductive justice, and what its history can teach us about the struggle for bodily autonomy today.

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