An
e-mail arrived months ago to the NHF website stating “add
Granny Earth to your newsletter sendout.” I tried to envision
who this person might be that goes by such a name. I would
soon discover as inquiries poured in concerning health-freedom
legislation and the NHF, all signed “Granny Earth.”
For many years she was Charlotte Weiland, a realtor, in a
Pittsburgh suburb, rearing three children as a single parent,
healing their ills with old-time remedies handed down from her
mother. Charlotte always had a passion for growing herbs,
teaching others about natural healing, and, above all, a grand
respect for Mother Nature.
At age 54, she returned to college, acquiring her B.S. in
Psychology and began working in the mental-health field.
Appalled by the excessive use of prescription drugs on
patients and the endless side-effects suffered by her clients,
she soon became disillusioned with her work. Enrolling in
Clayton College at age 60, Charlotte received her Masters
Degree and Ph.D. (with honors) in Natural Healing. Having
always grown her own herbs, in 2001, she decided to develop
her personal line of herbal products called "Granny Earth,"
while continuing to write the Ask Granny Earth column on
natural health for The Latrobe Bulletin (Westmoreland County,
PA).
In 2002, Charlotte legally changed her name to “Granny Earth,”
stating, “It’s who I am and it’s what I do.” She never looked
back, but headed down that road that always beckoned her,
immersing herself in all that concerns natural health. Granny
soon joined the NHF and keeps up-to-date on the latest
happenings regarding natural health and health-freedom issues
in the U.S. and abroad. Her daughter, Judy, owns the Mountain
Herb Shoppe in Donegal where Granny Earth is often found
holding meetings on Codex, vaccinations, and health-freedom.
Granny Earth’s daily life is consumed with
gathering wild herbs and writing a monthly newsletter called
“Connections,” in which she covers current anti-health-freedom
legislation, Codex, herbs, and other issues the NHF is
currently addressing. “Take no prisoners” is her stance when
contacting her legislative representatives with constant
letters and petitions on health-freedom legislation. When
asked about the health-freedom movement, Granny Earth stated,
“There’s lots of work to do and I’m just getting started.
Considering the atrocities that are happening to the American
people at the hands of the pharmaceutical industry, I think
that it is very important to teach people how to stay healthy
and heal themselves by using the plants that grow around them
- plants that heretofore were called ‘weeds.’” She has almost
finished writing a book called Do It Yourself Medicine, which
will be a teaching guide for this purpose. Never leaving a
stone untouched, she is building her new website (www.grannyearth.com),
to educate as always.
She loves talking natural health and educating the many people
she encounters as she drives through her area in her truck
decorated with flowers and butterflies, and sporting a decal
that reads “Granny Earth, Naturopath.”
It
has now been over a year since she and I met via e-mail. Her
drive, energy, desire to learn and give back brought her to
the NHF’s doorstep, just one of many doorsteps that I am sure
is on her future horizons. I hope others will be as honored
as we are that she found us and spends countless hours
referring people to the National Health Federation and
educating anyone that will listen concerning the
health-freedom issues we face.
An
e-mail arrived months ago to the NHF website stating “add
Granny Earth to your newsletter sendout.” I tried to envision
who this person might be that goes by such a name. I would
soon discover as inquiries poured in concerning health-freedom
legislation and the NHF, all signed “Granny Earth.”
It
has now been over a year since she and I met via e-mail. Her
drive, energy, desire to learn and give back brought her to
the NHF’s doorstep, just one of many doorsteps that I am sure
is on her future horizons. I hope others will be as honored
as we are that she found us and spends countless hours
referring people to the National Health Federation and
educating anyone that will listen concerning the
health-freedom issues we face.