Barbara Bitondo reigns at Aphrodite in the Kitchen, her Apothecary Studio in Washington, DC. Barbara is an urban herbalist, and a simpler, who directs her attention to topical herbal applications using easy-to-grow, bioregional plants and flowers for wellness, beauty and sensual delight. She grows, wild-crafts, guerrilla harvests, and trades for the plants she uses. Barbara teaches workshops on making essential-oil-free bath and beauty products, designs pop-up herbal spas at events and for special occasions, and offers an exclusive quarterly “Spa-in-a-Jar” subscription service.

Barbara twines Wild Wise Woman Ways with Second-Life and Zero-Waste practices making each step in her Walk in Beauty, both a ceremony and a revolutionary act.

You can find Barbara at the Midwest Women’s Herbal Conference that she has been involved in for almost a decade, and closer to home, at Rooting DC.