Bringing the Wisdom of Herbs to Cities with Urban Farmer Bonnie Rose Weaver & Oral Historian Mari Amend [episode 36]
This week's guests are Bonnie Rose Weaver and Mari Amend from the San Francisco Bay area. They've just released a book called Deeply Rooted: Medicinal Plant Cultivation in Techtropolis about growing and using herbal medicine in urban spaces. We talked with them about the multifaceted healing power of plants. In our conversation we covered:
- Making local herbal medicine accessible to a diverse multitude of people
- How herbal medicine reconnects people to their ancestry, the earth and each other
- Acknowledging the destructive events in history that have shaped today's environment
- Looking behind the mask of whiteness for healing cultural wounds
- What stories does the soil hold, and who really owns the soil?
- Redefining what profit means to be something that benefits the whole
"Herbs work."-Bonnie Rose and Mari Amend
Links:
- Buy the book, sign up for the newsletter & learn more about Bonnie and Mari at http://www.1849medicinegarden.com/
- Follow them on Instagram at @eighteenfortynine
Click images below to see inside the beautiful book!