Books by
Annette Naber
About
Annette Naber, Ph.D.
Originally from Germany, Annette has lived in the US for over 40 years and has traveled extensively. After retiring from a career as a clinical psychologist in the Washington DC area, she now offers foraging classes, guided forest bathing tours, and nature reconnection retreats. Tending to her organic gardens, she continues to study traditional ways of growing and preparing foods, using plants for culinary, medicinal, and cosmetic purposes. She also keeps nurturing a small native plant sanctuary to support bio-diversity on her land. Her interest and experience in holistic living are inevitably interwoven through all of her services.
Annette is also a photographer and writer. Many of her photographs and photo essays are featured on her Substack blog. Her first book, Seasons of a Wild Life, was published in 2024. Learn more on her author website.
Seasons of a Wild Life is an intimate journey through the seasons of the year and a love letter to our diverse and ancient human-nature interactions.
Naber shares her stewardship practices and daily lessons from the plants, wildlife, and weather on her farm in the Virginia Highlands, interspersing these with mytho-spiritual stories of nature deities, animal symbology, and seasonal festivities from cultures around the world.
Part journal, part guidebook, Seasons of a Wild Life is a treasury of naturalist observations, ancestral wisdom, and herbal remedies. Journaling prompts at the end of each chapter will inspire you to closely attend to the rhythms of nature in your own environment and deepen your personal connection to nature.
Growing Native Plants in the Virginia Highlands
Her second book (with co-author Keith Carson), Growing Native Plants in the Virginia Highlands: For Gardeners in Allegheny, Bath and Highland Counties, was published in March 2026 andis available online here (PDF).
A valuable resource for gardeners and land stewards in the Virginia Highlands – 136 profiles of plants native to the region.
