Ellen Evert Hopman is a Master Herbalist and lay Homeopath who holds an M.Ed. in Mental Health Counseling. She was Vice President of The Henge Of Keltria, an international Druid Fellowship, for nine years. Ellen is a founding member of The Order of the White Oak (Ord Na Darach Gile) and the founder of the Whiteoak mailing list. She is a Bard of the Gorsedd of Caer Abiri, a Druidess of the Druid Clan of Dana and has been a member of The Order Of Bards Ovates and Druids and of ADF.

She is the author of Tree Medicine - Tree Magic (Phoenix publishers, Custer, WA), A Druid's Herbal For the Sacred Earth Year (Inner Traditions/Destiny Books, Rochester, VT), Being A Pagan (with Lawrence Bond) (Inner Traditions/Destiny Books, Rochester, VT), Walking The World In Wonder - A Children's Herbal (Inner Traditions, Rochester, VT) Druids Today (forthcoming) and of the videos Gifts From the Healing Earth Vol. I and II and Pagans (available from Ernest Urvater/Sawmill River Productions, Amherst, MA, eurvater@comcast.net Telephone: 413-256-0001 Fax 914-470-4728).

She has released three audio tapes The Druid Path: Herbs And Festivals, Celtic Gods and Goddesses, and The Herbal And Magical Powers Of Trees (from Creative Seminars, POB 203, West Hurley, New York 12491).

She has been a teacher of Herbalism since 1983 and of Druidism since 1990 and co-leads tours to Celtic and Neolithic sites in Europe. She is the founder of The New England Druid Summit, a yearly gathering of Druids in New England.

She has participated in numerous radio and television programs including the Gary Null show in New York, and presented a weekly "herb report" for WRSI radio, out of Greenfield, MA for two years. She was a featured subject in a February, 1999 documentary on Druids on A&E Television's "The Unexplained". She has been on the staff of Keltria: Journal of Druidism and Celtic Magick and has been a contributing author to many New Age and Pagan journals.

Walking the World in Wonder

For a selection of Ellen's books covering topics from Druids and Druidry through to Herbalism and Paganism click here