Charles Garcia

As a child, Charles Garcia was taught the art of curanderismo by his mother, a Curandera and Partera, and now teaches Hispanic herbalism in his home as his grandfather might have. Garcia was born and raised on a walnut/almond ranch in the hot Central Valley of California, where he worked in the fields with his parents and wrote poetry on the side, later moving to the San Francisco Bay Area after college. Informed by traditions from various Native California healers and Chinese immigrants, Garcia founded the California School of Traditional Hispanic Herbalism, where the sick are helped at no cost and all profits go to this effort.