meet your teacher
Jenna Faccenda is a clinical herbalist and educator with over five years of dedicated study in herbal medicine and ancestral folk practices. Her training weaves together contemporary clinical herbalism with traditional lineages, shaped by mentorship from teachers including Kim Geisler, Brooke Johnson, Jen Stovall, David Meeser, Janet Kent, Lupo Passero, and Ilana Sobo. Her teaching blends folk, practical, and hands-on approaches, offering students tangible skills to take away while centering ritual and deep relationship with the plants. This approach is both practical and reverent, grounded in plant energetics, lived experience and real-world application.
Her ancestral work is deeply informed by Southern Italian folk traditions, studied with Marybeth Bonfiglio and Lisa Fazio, and further shaped through time spent traveling and studying in Italy and Sicily. Alongside formal study, Jenna understands plants as teachers in their own right, learning through observation, relationship, and place-based practice. Her classes invite students into a grounded, respectful engagement with herbalism and ancestral medicine, honoring lineage while meeting the realities of modern life.
upcoming classes
November 11, 2026
Plant Communion Tea Ritual
Plant Communion is a monthly exploration of the plants that grow within our bioregion, guided by clinical herbalists Jenna Faccenda and Brooke Johnson. Each gathering centers around a single plant ally, creating space to learn its story, traditional uses, and medicine while developing a more personal relationship with the plant itself. Through tea, ritual, sensory exploration, and conversation, you’ll practice noticing how a plant communicates through the body and begin to explore the energetic and relational dimensions of herbal medicine.
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November 15, 2026
Seasonal Sovereignty Fall Workshop
As the growing season turns toward Autumn, we turn our attention to the medicines that help carry us through the darker months. In this one-day Seasonal Sovereignty workshop, we’ll explore immune health and grief care through the plants and folk practices traditionally called upon during this time of year. Together, we’ll make fire cider and a heart cordial while learning the plants within their larger human stories; their traditional uses, folklore, and place within seasonal and ancestral practices.
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December 12, 2026
Seasonal Sovereignty Winter Workshop
As the natural world begins to turn inward, winter invites us into a different relationship with ourselves. You will be guided through the plants traditionally associated with winter, with particular attention to the respiratory system, the dream world, and the relationship between seasonal rhythms and our bodies. Together, we'll create two herbal remedies to take home for your own home apothecary.
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December 13, 2026
Lightbringer: An Evening Honoring Santa Lucia
Through storytelling, candlemaking and folk herbalism.
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December 20, 2026
Italian Folk Magick 101
This workshop explores ancestral remembrance, folk herbalism, plant traditions, protection magic, the malocchio, and devotional practices with the Madonna and saints. Together, we’ll look at how these traditions have survived through the Italian diaspora and remain woven into everyday practices of tending the home, working with plants, honoring ancestors, and seeking protection and guidance.
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programs
Seasonal Sovereignty
“Seasonal Sovereignty” is an herbalism program rooted in the cycles of the Earth located in the heart of Philadelphia, designed to reconnect you with the land beneath your feet and the medicine that grows all around you.
This program was created to empower students to learn herbalism for themselves and their community with a practice rooted in bio-regional herbalism.
“Seasonal Sovereignty” is a space to reclaim your connection to the Earth, your body, and the wisdom of collective care.
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Root & Ritual
Root & Ritual is a six-month plant spirit journey rooted in ancestral remembrance, seasonal ritual, and relational herbalism. Running from Beltane to Samhain, this offering invites you into a slow, intentional practice of learning with plants as teachers, through story, spirit, lineage, and lived relationship.
This is not a certification or a system to master.
This is a remembering.
Together, we will work with plants that have been taught, used, and revered through Curandero traditions and Italian folk herbalism, while honoring the truth that we are practicing as Americans, reclaiming, not replicating, ancestral ways. This container holds both reverence for lineage and responsibility for place.
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Prana House Herbalism Series
Join us one Saturday a month from March to November in West Chester, PA to explore the world of herbalism. Led by Herbalists Jacque Maldonado and Jenna Faccenda, this series is perfect for beginners or anyone wanting to deepen their foundational herbal knowledge. The program will guide you through the basics of identifying, connecting with, and ethically working with plants. Each class will focus on empowering you with practical skills to support your health and that of your family naturally and sustainably.
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Foundations of Herbalism Immersion
Come spend a week in the heart of Appalachia, one of the most botanically diverse regions in North America and home to an extraordinary abundance of medicinal plants. The mountains, forests, and meadows around Asheville have supported generations of herbalists, and this landscape continues to offer a living classroom unlike any other.
This one-week immersion is a rare opportunity to step fully into the study of herbalism in the place where the plants themselves are your teachers. Each day you will work directly with medicinal herbs, building practical skills in plant identification, ethical wildcrafting, and hands-on medicine making while deepening your understanding of herbal wisdom.
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