by Mary Ellen Hettinger | Apr 29, 2026 | Community
Another Branch of The Pear Tree: The Sally Jane Kindness Foundation “A mother’s legacy of kindness and a family’s hope to keep it alive one act of kindness at a time.” Although the seed of the Sally Jane Kindness Foundation was planted by a high school...
by Mary Ellen Hettinger | Apr 29, 2026 | Interview
A Community Hub for Health and Healing You could call The Pear Tree Wellness Collective at the corner of West Market and Tate Street in Greensboro “the mothership.” The purchase of this building—a stately house more than a century old on historic College...
by Shane Jarriel | Apr 1, 2026 | Interview
A period of illness changed how Luke Hoey understood his body—and eventually, the land. What began as a search for healing led him into the care of soil, stewardship, and small-scale farming. Today, through The Hoey Farm, through his faith, he cultivates not only...
by Mary Ellen Hettinger | Mar 31, 2026 | Interview
When conventional approaches didn’t offer the support her family needed, Leslie Rice began asking different questions—about health, about care, and about what it means to work with the body rather than against it. That search became Botanic Aromatics, a practice...
by gsohc | Mar 31, 2026 | Care, Mental Health
A Journey to an Autism Diagnosis For most of my life, I assumed the problem was me. I was sensitive to things other people seemed to barely notice. Sounds, textures, and certain environments could quickly become overwhelming in ways that were difficult to explain....
by Aleksandra Vujnovic | Mar 31, 2026 | Care, Chiropractic & Structural Alignment, Integrative Approaches
A Nervous System Perspective on Meltdowns, Listening, and Development Feel Like You’ve Tried Everything? Read This If your child: has big meltdowns over small things struggles to listen or respond has a hard time with transitions is sensitive to food, sound, or their...
by Leslie Rice | Mar 29, 2026 | Care, Community, Lifestyle & Preventative Care, Nature & Plant Based Approaches, Wellness
What We’ve Been Taught to Value There is a certain kind of lawn we have been taught to admire: clipped short, intensely green, uniform, and controlled. No dandelions.No violets.No clover.No deviation. Manicured to perfection, orderly, lush green grass like a carpet,...
by Mary Ellen Hettinger | Feb 27, 2026 | Interview
COVID-19 marked a season when the world pressed pause and retreated behind closed doors. But for Alexis Hart of Imagine That Life Coaching, staying in and going deeply within led to a new life and career of service to others. “In 2020 when the whole world was shut in,...
by Shane Jarriel | Feb 27, 2026 | Community, Yoga
From time to time, Greensboro Holistic Collective spotlights a local nonprofit that aligns with our mission of community, care, and collaboration. Ahava Collective is an intimate, community-centered wellness studio in northwest Greensboro devoted to...
by Leslie Rice | Feb 27, 2026 | Care, Community
Honoring the lineage of herbal wisdom—and the unseen labor that sustains us This is not just a story about herbs—it is a story about whose knowledge is preserved, whose labor is seen, and whose care sustains us. Much of what we now call modern herbalism did not begin...
