SILAS FOLLENDORF
FORAGED AND FORGED FELLOWSHIP
Recovery Coaching · Clinical Herbalism · Functional Nutrition
Silas (they/them) is a gentle cultivator of people, plants, and quiet miracles. Raised harvesting dinner from a family garden and tending guinea hens in the summer and surviving off ramen in the winter, they learned early how small hands and patient care can turn soil into sustenance and stories.
Silas began working with Seattle Youth Garden Works (an education and employment support program for homeless and at risk youth) as a participant and later returned as staff to lead the program, guiding participants to grow skills, confidence, and a sense of belonging.
Twelve years in recovery and shaped by lived experience of homelessness, Silas approaches community work with deep empathy and a trauma‑informed, compassionate presence - someone who sees the strengths in others and helps them bloom. Their healing journey revealed how food, herbs, and nourishment steady both mind and body, inspiring studies in herbal medicine and a partial herbal apprenticeship with Corinne Boyer in Shoreline, WA. Now they're rounding out their herbal experience with a clinical residency at Feral Hollow Botanical Sanctuary and Apothecary.
Since moving to Virginia, Silas has lived much of their life outdoors - seasonally serving with the Appalachian Conservation Corps, sharpening plant identification skills, completing the Basic Master Naturalist training in Nelson County, and training to become a Flora of Virginia app ambassador.
Now training as a Functional Nutrition Professional and a peer recovery specialist, Silas blends practical knowledge with a quietly magical touch - creating nourishing, plant‑centered pathways for healing, growth, and community.
