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!