Ruthie Praskins runs The Healing Hearth, a botanically-forward and gluten-free friendly, farm-to-table private chef service on ancestral Huichin Ohlone lands known as the san francisco bay area. She wears many a hat within her communities, including; village chef, community herbalist, functional nutritionist, grief doula and lifelong student of the nature of being human.. 

Ruthie orients towards food as medicine, ritual and daily opportunity to court deeper intimacy with the living ecosystems we belong to. She is passionate about Nourishment as an integral pathway in supporting the human capacity to show up resourced and embodied in these times of Great Turning. Ruthie finds great joy in alchemizing local ingredients and medicinal herbs into edible art and creating experiences where local flora & fauna may whisper stories of ancestral remembrance into the bellies and bones of those who nourish with them.

Ruthie walks with eastern european jewish ancestry and weaves extensive knowledge from training and deep study in vitalist herbalism, functional nutrition, comparative indigenous cosmologies, earth based jewish renewal practice, wilderness rites of passage frameworks, zen hospice care, community grief ritual and somatic trauma resolution, into all that she offers.

When not tending The Healing Hearth, Ruthie may be found wildcrafting medicinal herbs, supporting community grief rituals, walking through the redwoods, gathering with her beloved earth based jewish community, sharing food with dear ones or resting deeply..