Robert Rogers is an herbalist with over forty years of experience. He holds a BS from the University of Alberta, where he is an assistant clinical professor in family medicine, and taught plant medicine, including herbology and flower essences, at MacEwan University for ten years. He currently teaches in the Earth Spirit Medicine Program at the Northern Star College in Edmonton.
A past chair of the Alberta Natural Health Agricultural Network and Community Health Council of Capital Health, Rogers is a fellow of the International College of Nutrition, past chair of the medicinal mushroom committee of the North American Mycological Association, and on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms and Discovery Phytomedicine. He cohosts the Alberta Herb Gathering (www.herbgatheringalberta.com), held every other year.
Rogers is the author of The Fungal Pharmacy, A Cree Healer and His Medicine Bundle, and Mushroom Essences, among many other titles.