Alex Crofoot (she/her) is a queer cis woman, clinical and community herbalist, full-spectrum doula, mother, and the founder and owner of Bloodroot Herb Shop. Born in the southern tier of New York among rich farmlands and birch forests, Alex was raised with the stories and traditions of her Southern great-grandmother, a birthing assistant to her midwife and herbalist mother who served the Chestnut Ridge People. This lineage of Appalachian herbalism and reproductive care continues to shape her reverence for plants, healing, and community-rooted work.

Bloodroot Herb Shop is a bioregional apothecary and healing space that centers trauma-informed care, mutual aid, and radical accessibility of herbalism. Beyond hand made products, Bloodroot hosts sliding-scale clinical consultations, herbal education classes, free pop-up clinics, and community-based medicine-making events that prioritize LGBTQIA+ individuals and the houseless community, and others underserved by conventional wellness spaces.

Alex is also the founder of the Community Care Camper, a free mobile herbal clinic that served marginalized populations in and around southeast Michigan. She previously co-owned Black Locust Gardens an organic herb farm and plant nursery in Dexter, Michigan, coordinates and works herbal first aid for the Great Lakes Herb Faire, and regularly teaches plant-based workshops, embodying an animist, clinical lens, harm-reduction, and client-centered approach to herbal care.

Through her clinical work and creative mutual aid projects, Alex continues to hold space for all pregnancy outcomes, pelvic dysfunctions, womb care, hormonal shifts, chronic illness, and trauma recovery—guided by the belief that herbalism is not just medicine, but a practice of radical care. You can find her on her land, pit firing pottery, mothering a feral child, writing,  gardening, and talking to animals.