Elizabeth Campbell

Elizabeth Campbell is a proud Spokane Tribal Member who grew up harvesting native foods with her family, fostering a lifelong connection to the land and its gifts. She specializes in cultivating and teaching about healthy foods and plant medicines, blending indigenous knowledge with modern practices.

Elizabeth earned her BA from The Evergreen State College, focusing on Education, Native American Studies, and the Practice of Sustainable Agriculture. She teaches medicine-making and indigenous foods workshops in tribal communities throughout the Pacific Northwest and owns an organic farm with her family in Shelton, Washington. As the founder of Cedar Circle Botanicals, she creates organic body care products and herbal medicines with sustainably harvested plants and high-quality ingredients.

As an organic farmer, Elizabeth became actively involved in local farmers markets, selling high-quality produce to her community and local restaurants and served as the Shelton Farmers Market Manager for two years, where she increased overall market sales by 25% annually.

Elizabeth gained invaluable experience working with tribal communities during her six years teaching Traditional Plants classes through the Northwest Indian College’s Cooperative Extension Department. She also taught weekly classes for the Northwest Indian Treatment Center’s Traditional Plants Program, where she made herbal medicines with patients, stocked their herbal pharmacy, and managed their ethnobotanical gardens.

Elizabeth designed and helped develop the Squaxin Island Tribe’s Salish Roots Farm, continuing to build the program over five years as the Garden Production Supervisor. She trained tribal member farm technicians, led healthy, seasonal cooking classes, hosted community plant medicine-making workshops, organized fruit tree pruning events, and implemented organic farming practices to nourish the Squaxin Island Tribal Community.

Currently, Elizabeth serves as the Food Sovereignty Specialist with Tahoma Peak Solutions, where she is deeply committed to advancing tribal food sovereignty across Indian Country. She is also a member of the Tend, Gather, and Grow Curriculum Development Team and regularly facilitates train-the-trainer workshops. Additionally, she consults on Traditional Indian Medicine and garden design with the Seattle Indian Health Board, weaving cultural and ecological principles into her work.

Elizabeth’s dedication to preserving and sharing indigenous knowledge continues to inspire communities, strengthening connections to heritage, health, and the environment.

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In her free time, Elizabeth enjoys traveling, hiking, kayaking, beachcombing, sunchasing, gardening, yoga, pilates, live music, and preparing nourishing meals for her family. She loves eating giant salads, harvesting big, sweet, juicy mountain huckleberries, and foraging for wild foods, including salty sea vegetables and medicinal plants. Elizabeth also finds joy in creating exquisite botanical products, experimenting with new ideas on her two beautiful daughters, and going for long walks with her husband and their two dogs.