Our Team

CoreyPine began studying herbal medicine in the late 1980s, identifying plants and learning about how the human body heals and eventually graduating from the Northeast School of Botanical Medicine. He moved to Asheville in 1996 and started teaching and seeing clients. Because of his desire to make custom individualized formulas for each client, he started wildcrafting and making larger batches of tinctures.

He then studied with herbalist Michael Moore at the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine in Bisbee, Arizona to further his herbal education. CoreyPine returned to Asheville and founded the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine in 1999. He began selling Pine’s Herbals in some local stores and has been expanding both his school and herbal business ever since.

CoreyPine (yes, that is his first name) is the author of the ebook Herbs for Pain and Southeastern Medicinal Plants (Timber Press, November 2021). He is in demand as a speaker and practitioner, having taught at herb schools and conferences throughout the United States and in Europe.

When not delving into tomes of herbal lore, CoreyPine can be found meandering through the woods, watching birds, and harvesting plants and mushrooms for dinner. He has also developed a passion for photography and takes more photos than his friends really care to look at. 

Emma has been a lifelong seeker and student of the natural world around her. Growing up on the Jersey Shore amongst the blueberries and pines, she became attuned to the wisdom of the plants in her young adult years. Emma then lived on the island of Kauai— experiencing the rhythms of tropical living while working on a medicinal herb farm and studying Hawaiian herbal healing. Wanting to deepen her education of plants and the body, she moved to Appalachia in 2023 to attend the Holistic Herbalism Program at the Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine.

Emma values community and the richness in human connection. You can find her writing poetry, serving fancy coffees, eating noodles, and working on her dad jokes.