Herbalism As Activism - Stories of healing, justice, resistance and change
4 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 7 years ago - ★★★★ - 12 ratingsCollecting and sharing stories of combining herbalism with activism
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Episodes
The End of the Age of Reason & the Emergence of the New Herbal Renaissance - an interview with Stephen Buhner
April 13, 2017 19:49 - 1 hour - 121 MBIn this episode... I interview Stephen Buhner, herbalist, teacher and prolific author. He been called an earth poet and a bardic naturalist. It’s a particular honour for me because i’ve had some opportunity to study with Stephen and he’s had an enormous impact on me and my healing path. We explore the age old question, What do Donald Trump, Hurricane Katrina, the mortgage meltdown, antibiotic-resistant bacteria and lyme disease have in common? It turns out they’re symptoms of the ...
Social Justice, Street Medics and Land Stewardship - An Interview with Missy Rohs
April 06, 2017 16:00 - 1 hour - 91.7 MBI interview Missy Rohs of the Arctos School of Herbal and Botanical Studies in Portland Oregon. With a background in labor solidarity and herbal street medicine with the former Black Cross Collective, Missy is very passionate about the intersection of herbal medicine and social justice. In our discussion, we touch on a whole bunch of topics including herbal self care including her Top 3 "go to" herbs The importance of finding and foraging plants in a cityscape Developing relationship...
Defending Herbal Medicines from Health Canada and the World Disease Agenda - An Interview with Yarrow Willard
March 30, 2017 16:00 - 1 hour - 94.4 MBIn this episode... I interview my friend Yarrow Willard. Yarrow is a co-founder of Harmonic Arts Botanical Dispensary based out of Courtenay, BC He’s also a co-founder of the Vancouver Island Herb Gathering, now the largest herb gathering in Canada. “yes , we need to get up and fight this. We also can’t live in fear… that’s just going to put us into a shellshocked state. If we’re going to see the change we want to see in the world, we need to be strategic about how we spend out ener...
Decolonizing with Plant Medicines - An Interview with Philippa Joly
March 22, 2017 17:50 - 1 hour - 86.4 MBIn this episode... I interview my friend Philippa Joly, a long time activist, organizer and herbalist living on Denman Island. “Just the basic elemental thing of reconnecting a human with a plant can be revolutionary for people. When people realize that not only is there a healing capacity in plants… but they realize there’s a sentience in the plants, there can be a new forging of relationship. There’s this opening that happens for people where they feel less alone. They feel less afr...