Alex Queathem Payne is a clinical herbalist and educator. She and her husband co-founded Tending the Wildflowers, a botanical sanctuary offering various herbal programs and classes on-site including an herbal immersion program and a beginner botany and ecology program. The sanctuary is recognized through the United Plant Savers Botanical Sanctuary Network. They grow a myriad of medicinal herbs and native at-risk plants. They also keep bees. Alex attended the three-year program through the Columbines School of Botanical Studies. She is the administrator and an instructor for the school, proceeded through teaching training, and is an instructor at the school. She is currently enrolled in the Clinical Foundations Mentorship with Sovereignty Herbs and has a small clinical practice.