The BackStory

Meet Erin

From a career in Business Strategy Consulting to Clinical Herbalism. Erin’s life trajectory was forever changed when she was able to heal from 20 years of chronic illness using variety of effective holistic interventions.

Erin Antosh

Founder

Erin is a Clinical Herbalist with a background in nutrition, botanical product development, environmental health, organic gardening, biotransformation/detoxification, and true farm-to-table cooking. Through Where The Good Grows, she provides private Herbal Wellness Consultations, advises and formulates therapeutic botanical products for wellness brands, and combines her clinical training with her improv comedy experience to teach entertaining and approachable natural wellness education programs.

Before transitioning her career to focus on natural wellness, Erin worked in Management Consulting, as well as founded and operated four companies. As a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and LEED AP, she has worked with corporate, government and small business clients to improve their operations and establish strategic organizational change. Erin specializes in strategic business growth planning, corporate sustainability, product development, technical writing + copywriting, business process re-engineering, project management, training development/facilitation, event coordination, and marketing.

Erin completed the Foundations of Medicinal Herbalism and Herbal Apothecary certification programs at Green Comfort School of Herbal Medicine in Castleton, VA and continued her clinical herbalism training working at the school’s clinic seeing clients and formulating botanical products. After completing an advanced program with The American Herbalism Guild, Erin has specialized training working with women planning to conceive, through pregnancy and postpartum. Erin continued her herbalism and nutrition clinical training through a mentorship program with Camille Freeman, LDN, RH and has consulted various wellness companies on product development.

In 2015, Erin graduated with honors from the Academy of Culinary Nutrition. As a Culinary Nutrition Expert and an experienced cook with training at The Farm Cooking School, Erin is able to translate nutrition science into nourishing meals that allow clients to use food as medicine. Additionally, Erin pursued advanced clinical studies in Detoxification and Biotransformation with Josh Gitalis, a Clinical Functional Nutritionist based in Toronto. Erin holds an Organic Gardening Certification from Prior Unity Garden and has extensive experience growing medical plants.

Erin is currently the Senior Wellth Advisor and in-house Herbalist for Apothekary. In this role, Erin leads the company’s R&D team, formulates new blends, and creates educational content based on her extensive herbal training.

Health Story

Erin’s interest in natural healing modalities stems from her first-hand experience using a variety of effective holistic interventions in her personal health journey. Erin was chronically ill for over 20 years, managing her symptoms through a pharmaceutical approach. When her health ultimately hit rock bottom, she looked to a more natural approach to healing. Drastically changing her diet and lifestyle, deploying detoxification strategies, and working with bodyworkers, herbalists, mind-body practitioners, and an Integrative Medicine Doctor enabled her to achieve optimal health after debilitating Lyme Disease, Epstein Barr Virus, a rare pancreatic disorder, and multiple autoimmune diseases had gone undiagnosed for years.