Ecotopia Botanicals is a small practice of plant craft in the Pacific Northwest.
Frankie Jurkowski is a physical medicine practitioner, herbalist, and outdoor guide whose work bridges healthcare, ecology, and community. She founded Ecotopia Botanicals in Seattle with her beloved wolf-dog companion, Minuit, with whom she spent countless days roaming the wild spaces between the Cascade and Olympic Mountains. Now that Minuit lives in the stars, Frankie makes her home in Manchester, Washington, where she lives with her new canine pal, Sal, surrounded by the forested lands of the Puget Sound and Olympic Peninsula.
Frankie studied physical medicine at the Center for Health and Natural Medicine in Asheville, North Carolina, and has been in practice since 2008. Her herbal training includes Cedar Mountain Herb School and the Integrated Institute for Herbal Medicine, complemented by hands-on experience at Dandelion Botanical Company, where she worked alongside master herbalists Kachi and Anna. She has also cultivated experience in biodynamic and sustainable farming at Singing Cedars Farmstead in Vermont and Flagstaff EcoRanch in Arizona.
For more than 15 years, Frankie has guided wilderness expeditions across the Cascades, Olympics, Alaska, and Appalachia, integrating wilderness and folk medicine into her teaching and care. She is the founder of Anatomia Physical Medicine, a healthcare practice that has served over 300 clients, where she integrates herbalism and structural massage to restore balance and reconnect people to their bodies through hands-on health.
Her professional path also reflects a strong foundation in organizational leadership, cooperative models, and community-centered enterprises, drawing from her work with numerous grassroots projects in health and education.
Outside of her practice, Frankie works as a mountain guide for Wildland Trekking, tends her garden, photographs wild landscapes, practices woodcraft, and rides her bike through the forests she calls home. She practices yoga and finds inspiration in the writings of Haruki Murakami, Louise Erdrich, and Italo Calvino, always with a pot of Earl Grey tea close by.
Frankie welcomes opportunities for collaboration with creative, capable, and curious people who are passionate about cultivating resilience, balance, and health in both human and ecological communities.
All photographs are lived experiences of Frankie as she travels through the West. I invite you to visually accompany me on my journey of discovering new places, sharing stories in the trees and most of all, my attempt to deepen my personal connection with that which lies outside the anthropocene.
