Bur Oak
Quercus macrocarpa
Fagaceae (Beech Family)
Medicinal Minute with Ginger Webb
19 November 2025
A note from Ginger:
Oak trees (Quercus spp.) are one of our most common trees and yet most people don’t know that they are a great source of both food and medicine.
Ginger Webb, Community Herbalist, Botanist, Teacher & Mentor
Ginger Webb has been practicing herbalism for nearly 30 years, as a community herbalist, clinical herbalist, herbal medicine maker, wild plant lover, botanist, and teacher. She has trained scores of people to be herbalists through her programs at Sacred Journey School of Herbalism.
Her mission is to keep alive the craft of herbalism through modeling the age-old wisdom of being in right relationship with the plants, and she teaches her students to be stewards of the Earth and the plants first, and to make medicine only when the plants wholeheartedly provide consent.
