The Little Herb That Could, 106 acres in rural Missouri, is a traditional herbal medicine farm and practice, home to botany research and food as medicine education.

Cheryl Weatherby practices the Shen-Hammer lineage of Chinese medicine pulse diagnosis - a system working with more than 90 diagnostic qualities across 6 principal and 22 complementary pulse positions. She studied under senior instructor Ross Rosen as part of a 2000 hour internship at The Center for Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine (2006 - 2010), as his associate practitioner from 2012 - 2020, and continues to train with Shen-Hammer certified instructors across the country. In addition, Cheryl learned Ayurvedic pulse diagnosis from Dr. Vasant Lad at The Ayurvedic Institute and throughout the California College of Ayurveda’s pancha karma certification program (2003). The psycho-emotional and physical health information revealed by these systems allow for discernment of a disease process at a very early stage.

Cheryl is certified in biodynamic craniosacral therapy, manual lymphatic drainage, hypnotherapy, chi nei tsang Taoist visceral manipulation, Nuad-Bo Rarn Thai yoga, Ayurveda, and energy medicine. She completed the Natural Gourmet Institute’s chef training program in New York City, including 100 hours externship at Mercer Kitchen, studied Chinese medicine dietary therapies throughout her graduate program at Eastern School of Acupuncture and Traditional Medicine, and is clinically trained in Kanpo Sino-Japanese herbology (Nigel Dawes), traditional Chinese herbal medicine, and homeopathy.

Cheryl learned gross anatomy dissection from Somanautics (2004) and taught gross anatomy for Laboratories of Anatomical Enlightenment. She uses palpation to find myofascial binding/strain patterns and trigger points causing distal pain and musculoskeletal disfunction.

During classical midwifery training with The Russian Birth Project, she assisted in 27 births and performed prenatal, postpartum, and newborn exams in both hospital and home settings. She works with women in all stages of pregnancy.

Cheryl is licensed in acupuncture (MO) and board certified in acupuncture with the National Certification Commission of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (2011). In addition to private practice, she has worked in doctors’ offices, community clinics and for the VA Health Administration.

Take a wildflower walk on the farm:

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”

- John Muir

“The world contained in a seed,

Determined by its program.” - Dejan Stojanovic

“There's something satisfying about getting your hands in the soil.” - E.A. Bucchianeri.

“All rise!”

Reaching to the moon (that tiny white dot)

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the sea and music in its roar: I love not man less, but nature more" -Lord Byron