Holly Bellebuono is a 17th-year traditional and certified herbalist, an expert forager, award-winning formulator and apothecary, writer, women's natural health specialist, and a certified professional coach. She is author of The Essential Herbal for Natural Health and the slide documentary Our Healing Heritage: Celebrating World Medicine Tradition and Women Healers. She operates Vineyard Herbs Teas & Apothecary LLC as well as two women's coaching programs: a 9-Week Program, and a 1-Year Soulful Mentoring Program. She also directs the distance learning course Heritage & Healing Herbal Studies Program, with enrollment open to students of herbal medicine and natural health. As a nurturing guide toward natural health, Holly's style has been called "compassionate" and "welcoming." With direct experience formulating and selling hundreds of original and award-winning plant-based medicines, Holly works one-on-one with motivated women who are ready to embrace a vital life. Originally from the southern Appalachian mountains of North Carolina, Holly now runs her apothecary and coaching practices from the beautiful island of Martha's Vineyard.

Holly created her original line of award-winning herbal formulas years ago and has helped thousands of people enjoy radiant health through natural medicines. Holly began her healing career via a love-affair with plants, and over sixteen years has developed, marketed, branded, and sold nearly 100 different labels of tinctures, salves, oils, powders, salts, and teas. Through her medicinal herb business Vineyard Herbs Teas & Apothecary, Holly has reached tens of thousands of people with delicious and nutritious healing tonics and medicines.

She traveled extensively to document the traditional and indigenous healing practices of women across the world. She traveled to Hawaii, Holland, Great Britain, the Pacific Northwest and throughout the United States profiling women healers, and has interviewed prominent healers from Gabon, Africa; Scotland; Jordan; Tibet; China; Polynesia; New Zealand; Morocco; England; Mexico; Ecuador; Peru; and across the United States--all of whom are featured in Our Healing Heritage (email here to schedule a viewing for your conference or event). Holly earned a Certificate of Therapeutic Herbalism and Phytotherapy (David Hoffmann, California and Wales); credentials as a Certified Professional Coach through Fowler Wainwright International Institute of Coaching; was a WOOFER (Willing Worker on Organic Farms) in England, Scotland and Ireland; served as Program Director for the non-profit advocacy organization Appalachian Voices; and has taught for camps, universities, colleges, senior centers, hospitals and arboreta. She has been featured or published in Martha’s Vineyard Magazine, MVTV, Appalachian Voice, Edible Vineyard, Well-Wed Magazine, Carolina Mountain Living, United Plant Savers Journal of Medicinal Plant Conservation, PlumTV, and others. She is a member of United Plant Savers, North East Herb Association, Martha's Vineyard Women's Network, and the American Herbalist's Guild.