Annaliese Hordern

Annaliese Hordern is a facilitator, ceremonialist and plant lover devoted to cultivating deep relationships with plants through propagation, conservation and everyday connection. Inspired by luminaries such as Vandana Shiva, the Seed Savers Network and Dan Schreiber of Star Seed Gardens, where she co-presented Sacred Plant Propagation, Annaliese weaves practical ecology with ethnobotanical wisdom that honours the ancient bond between plants and people.

Her years at Green Harvest, propagating rare and culturally significant edible and medicinal plants, and a decade with the Happy Herb Company helped shape Australia’s modern plant-people movement. As curator of the McKenna Academy’s Symbiosis Symposium, she opened alongside Dennis McKenna, discussing sacred plant connection into daily life and today continues to represent the work of Isabel Shipard.

Rooted in over two decades of women’s work, rites of passage and ceremonial practice, including Sundance, Sweat Lodge and Vision Quest, Annaliese’s pilgrimages across Mexico, Canada, Europe and the Amazon to wild and curated botanical gardens, learning from the stewards of these medicinal gardens, deepen her message of sacred reciprocity, ecological respect and regeneration through plant connection.