Ecotopia Botanicals is a small practice of plant craft in the Pacific Northwest.
Frankie started Ecotopia Botanicals while living in Seattle with her wolf dog companion, Minuit. They would spend all their time in between the Cascade and Olympic Mountains, together, making it home. She now resides in the forest lands of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington.
She studied physical medicine at the Center for Health and Natural Medicine in Asheville, North Carolina and has been practicing since 2008. She attended Cedar Mountain School of Herbs and Integrated Institute for Herbal Medicine. Once upon a time she worked at Dandelion Botanical Co. with some of the most special herbalist friends Kachi, Anna, Evie and Elana, all brilliant medicine makers. Her lifelong career as a backpacking guide has created a great deal of value in the art of wilderness medicine and forest medicines.
She believes in folk medicine and reconnecting humans to their bodies through hands-on health.
Frankie is a physical medicine practitioner utilizing both herbalism and structural massage medicine as primary modes of restoring balance. In her free time she is a mountain guide for Wildland Trekking, gardener, photographer, woodworker and bike rider. She practices yoga and enjoys the works of Haruki Murakami, Louise Erdrich & Italo Calvino over a good pot of Earl Grey tea.
She looks forward to all potential collaborations possible with creative and capable humans.
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.
