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
February 21, 2026
Herbalism for the Heart
In this class, we’ll explore heart-centered plant allies such as rose, hawthorn, motherwort, and linden, learning how they support not only cardiovascular health, but also emotional regulation, attachment, heartbreak, and long-term stress. We’ll look at how the heart and nervous system are intertwined, and how grief and chronic stress impact the body.
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March - May 2026
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. Whether you’re new to herbalism or returning to ancestral ways, “Seasonal Sovereignty” is a space to reclaim your connection to the Earth, your body, and the wisdom of collective care.
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March - November 2026
Prana House Herbalism Series
This series is perfect for those just stepping into the world of herbalism or anyone looking to build a stronger foundation in working with plants. The program will guide you through the basics of identifying, connecting with, and ethically working with plants, as well as learning how to make herbal remedies.
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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.
Whether you’re new to herbalism or returning to ancestral ways, “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 herbs! Each class is offered on a sliding scale, allowing you to pay what you can on the scale. Led by Herbalists Jacque Maldonado and Jenna Faccenda, this series is perfect for beginners or anyone wanting to deepen their herbal knowledge. The program will guide you through the basics of identifying, connecting with, and ethically working with plants, as well as learning how to make herbal remedies for home and personal use.
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
For nearly two decades, Twin Star has been planting the seeds of herbal wisdom through the Foundations of Herbalism program. Students experience the art, science, and spirit of herbalism by working directly with the plants and forming powerful, meaningful relationships. Participants learn how to identify and ethically wildcraft, gather, and grow medicinal plants, as well as become confident in making high-quality herbal extracts and a variety of botanical preparations.Students have the option to join online, in New Milford CT, or Asheville, NC.
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