After completing his doctoral research in Medical Anthropology from Columbia University (with distinction), Anderson spent a decade immersed in the herbalist traditions and folk therapeutics of southern Appalachia. While living on a farm in southern West Virginia, a local farmer gave him an old cobalt blue glass jar full of heirloom seed, and instructed him to plant them in the rich pile of cow manure behind the hand hewn poplar barn. The plants that emerged from that dark earth thrived in the cool climes of the southern Appalachian mountains, and opened up a new form of awareness and commitment to the medicinal properties of the Cannabis flower.

Sarah’s family originally hails from Faith, North Carolina, though she spent her childhood growing up in Minnesota, Arkansas, Indiana, and Western New York with her five siblings. She’s an avid reader and researcher and has long been fascinated with herbalist traditions and medicinal plants. In addition to her research interests and Cannabis cultivation, Sarah also loves to cook, write, sing harmonies with friends, and she occasionally plays her guitar on the porch.