Dara Saville, PhD, is the founder of and a primary instructor at Albuquerque Herbalism as well as the executive director of the Yerba Mansa Project, a local nonprofit in Albuquerque, New Mexico, focused on community land stewardship along the Middle Rio Grande. She is the author of The Ecology of Herbal Medicine: A Guide to Plants and Living Landscapes of the American Southwest (UNM Press).