This forthcoming calendar pairs formidable women with equally formidable plants. Think icons like Abby Wambach—all sunshine, grit, and hard-won resilience—alongside St. John’s Wort, a plant so potent in lifting mood that it famously refuses to share the stage with SSRIs.

I’m fortunate to be surrounded by people who study, work with, and genuinely revere our flora friends (and yes, I mean that both poetically and quite literally). This project has been a particular joy: a kind of creative matchmaking, pairing bold, brilliant women with plants that cultivate their own remarkable—if often quiet—forms of power.