Herb At The End Of The World

Join Samwise Raridon Community Herbalist and Meditation Practitioner and Therapist Liz Fitzgerald for a sweet and reverent chat on Lavender, queerness and joy. If you want to learn more about Liz and their work, you can find them at https://www.therapistliz.com/ Herb at the End of the World will be taking a hiatus while Samwise adjusts to some big life changes. Here's some links to the articles mentioned in the episode: From Lavender to Violet: The Lesbian Obsession with Purple by Eleanor Medhurst https://dressingdykes.com/2021/08/20/from-lavender-to-violet/ Violet Delights: A Queer History of Purple by Keava McMillan https://www.vam.ac.uk/dundee/articles/violet-delights-a-queer-history-of-purple Lavender Menace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender_Menace The song that appears at the end of the episode is called "The Lavender Song", based on "Das Lila Lied" (Berlin, 1921; a gay/lesbian liberation song) and can be found on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yPakNOVytI --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Herb at the End of the World is created by Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, teacher and organizer of germanic, celtic and Lebanese lineages living as a guest in unceded Shawnee, Osage, Ofo and Mesopelea (otherwise known as Adena and Hopewell) land, colonially known as Athens, Ohio. This podcast will always be offered freely. If you're inspired by this work and want to support others in accessing healing and learning, please consider joining us as a patron on Patreon. If you are inspired by this work please leave us a five star review wherever you listen to podcasts so more people can find out about these resources!  Have you seen this awesome video of our clinical work? Big big thanks to Em Harger for producing this magical short film.  IG: @selfhealherbs FB: https://www.facebook.com/self.heal.herbal.clinic Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/samwiseraridoncommunityherbalist?fan_landing=true Sam's Website: https://www.selfhealherbs.com/ 

Just a little announcement about taking a break over the summer to heal up and work camp! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Herb at the End of the World is created by Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, teacher and organizer of germanic, celtic and Lebanese lineages living as a guest in unceded Shawnee, Osage, Ofo and Mesopelea (otherwise known as Adena and Hopewell) land, colonially known as Athens, Ohio. This podcast will always be offered freely. If you're inspired by this work and want to support others in accessing healing and learning, please consider joining us as a patron on Patreon. If you are inspired by this work please leave us a five star review wherever you listen to podcasts so more people can find out about these resources!  Have you seen this awesome video of our clinical work? Big big thanks to Em Harger for producing this magical short film.  IG: @selfhealherbs FB: https://www.facebook.com/self.heal.herbal.clinic Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/samwiseraridoncommunityherbalist?fan_landing=true Sam's Website: https://www.selfhealherbs.com/ 

Join Samwise Raridon Community Herbalist and their partner Seed Minkin Youth Educator and Artist for a sweet and powerful conversation about herbs for mental health support, including Burdock. Thank you so much Seed for sharing your beauty and wisdom. Content Warning: In this episode we touch on themes of mental health, working with Bipolar, and acknowledge feelings of wanting to give up. If you are feeling like you want to give up and need support, please reach out for help. Please check out the resources below: Trans Lifeline: 877 565 8860 Suicide and Crisis Hotline: 988 (it's just those three numbers) Warm Line Directory By State (for those that just need someone to talk to): https://warmline.org/warmdir.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Herb at the End of the World is created by Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, teacher and organizer of germanic, celtic and Lebanese lineages living as a guest in unceded Shawnee, Osage, Ofo and Mesopelea (otherwise known as Adena and Hopewell) land, colonially known as Athens, Ohio. This podcast will always be offered freely. If you're inspired by this work and want to support others in accessing healing and learning, please consider joining us as a patron on Patreon. If you are inspired by this work please leave us a five star review wherever you listen to podcasts so more people can find out about these resources!  Have you seen this awesome video of our clinical work? Big big thanks to Em Harger for producing this magical short film.  IG: @selfhealherbs FB: https://www.facebook.com/self.heal.herbal.clinic Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/samwiseraridoncommunityherbalist?fan_landing=true Sam's Website: https://www.selfhealherbs.com/ 

Join Community Herbalist Samwise Raridon and Clinical Herbalist, Death Doula and Ritualist Lauren Roellig for a deep dive into an important tree across many cultures, the Oak Tree. Lauren shares about her experience deepening her relationship to Oak through recognizing Sudden Oak Death and helping to heal the trees in her region. Together we reflect on themes like how vital real justice is for healing our world and the trees that sustain it. You can find out more about Lauren's work and book a session to work with her individually and collectively at https://www.laurenroellig.com/ The Disability Justice book we mention in the episode is called The Future is Disabled by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Here are some of the organizations and projects we mention in the episode: Keepers of the Flame Project (actually UC Davis, not UC Berkeley): https://epm.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk296/files/inline-files/Keepers%20of%20the%20Flame%20Final5.12.2020.pdf TREKS prescribed fire training exchanges https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-priorities/protect-water-and-land/land-and-water-stories/fire-training-exchanges-expand-controlled-burns/ Karuk Tribe Cultural Burns and Climate Change Project https://karuktribeclimatechangeprojects.com/fire-works/ Donating to the Sogorea Te' Land Trust https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/ Indian canyon is the only federally recognized native lands from Sonoma to the coast of Santa Barbara in California.[1] The land hosts many ceremonies and oak tending workshops - recently they had a major flooding with the storms - and there's a gofundme for donations. http://support.indiancanyonlife.org/?fbclid=IwAR3rSJBluVoqVYSfgJ_-nYfb41U8-YCl2XM6nX8JhDktZxd7GuR02Qkes90 Social Forestry and Siskiyou Permaculture, Hazel Ward - theyve just put out a book called Tending the Land as People of Place https://siskiyoupermaculture.org/about-us/ Go wild institute Jolie Egret Elan https://www.gowildinstitute.org/ SuddenOakLife.org - fire mimicry The painting in the cover art for this episode is the painting that Samwise mentions in the show, and is called "Saint Boniface Felling the Sacred Oak" by Christian Wilhelm Ernst Diedrich (created about 1750 - 1770) Music Credit: "Change" by Big Thief, a song I have been listening to on repeat these days --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Herb at the End of the World is created by Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, teacher and organizer of germanic, celtic and Lebanese lineages living as a guest in unceded Shawnee, Osage, Ofo and Mesopelea (otherwise known as Adena and Hopewell) land, colonially known as Athens, Ohio. This podcast will always be offered freely. If you're inspired by this work and want to support others in accessing healing and learning, please consider joining us as a patron on Patreon. If you are inspired by this work please leave us a five star review wherever you listen to podcasts so more people can find out about these resources!  Have you seen this awesome video of our clinical work? Big big thanks to Em Harger for producing this magical short film.  IG: @selfhealherbs FB: https://www.facebook.com/self.heal.herbal.clinic Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/samwiseraridoncommunityherbalist?fan_landing=true Sam's Website: https://www.selfhealherbs.com/ 

Join Samwise for a tender and potent telling of their relationship to the elder tree and the elder's connections to death and rebirth. The elder tree is strongly connected to the winter deity Holda / Holle in some germanic lineages. Winter, the epiphany, January 6th, divination, grief, loss and cycles of regeneration are big themes throughout this episode. Content warning: this episode talks in depth about losing friends to murder, although no graphic details are shared. Much love and gratitude to the friends and family who also carry this grief and the gift of knowing Emilie and Dusty. Here's the video of Emilie singing "Trust". Thank you to Paul Stoutenburgh and Minea Herwitz for producing this beautiful video. Here's the book on Holda that Sam mentions in the episode. Turns out it's out of print, so let me know if you're curious about it! Art credit in Episode Cover Art: Alphonse Mucha, "Winter" 1896 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Herb at the End of the World is created by Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, teacher and organizer of germanic, celtic and Lebanese lineages living as a guest in unceded Shawnee, Osage, Ofo and Mesopelea (otherwise known as Adena and Hopewell) land, colonially known as Athens, Ohio. This podcast will always be offered freely. If you're inspired by this work and want to support others in accessing healing and learning, please consider joining us as a patron on Patreon. If you are inspired by this work please leave us a five star review wherever you listen to podcasts so more people can find out about these resources! Have you seen this awesome video of our clinical work? Big big thanks to Em Harger for producing this magical short film. IG: @selfhealherbs FB: https://www.facebook.com/self.heal.herbal.clinic Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/samwiseraridoncommunityherbalist?fan_landing=true Sam's Website: https://www.selfhealherbs.com/

Join host Samwise Raridon, Community Herbalist and Cera Merrick, Abortion Doula and Fertility Awareness Educator for a generous and in depth discussion on herbs, ancestral medicine, abortion and how abortion doulas can support folks moving through abortions. In this episode Cera shares about their practice of supporting folks as an abortion doula and turns us towards our own lineages' cycle regulation medicines. You can find out more about Cera's work, including booking an exploratory session at their website here. You can follow them on Instagram @ceramerrick Here are some of the resources we talk about in this episode: Natural Liberty: Rediscovering Self Induced Abortion Methods by the Sage Femme Collective (PDF of whole book) Holistic Abortions: Herbalists and abortion doulas offering inclusive, comprehensive repro knowledge & empowering ppl w/ plant wisdom and body literacy Venmo @HolisticAbx Instagram @holistic.abortions (Offers classes on holistic abortion support) Abortion Showers: a woman, femme, nonbinary people of color-led project. Abortion Showers challenged bodily autonomy narratives by providing a digital space for emotional and technical support and political education resources for people who have and support abortion care post-Roe v. Wade. (Fundraiser!) The Nap Ministry: founded by Tricia Hersey and is an organization that examines the liberating power of naps. Digital Defense Fund: established in 2017 in response to the increased need for security and technology resources in the abortion rights movement after the 2016 election. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Herb at the End of the World is created by Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, teacher and organizer of germanic, celtic and Lebanese lineages living as a guest in unceded Shawnee, Osage, Ofo and Mesopelea (otherwise known as Adena and Hopewell) land, colonially known as Athens, Ohio. This podcast will always be offered freely. If you're inspired by this work and want to support others in accessing healing and learning, please consider joining us as a patron on Patreon. If you are inspired by this work please leave us a five star review wherever you listen to podcasts so more people can find out about these resources! Have you seen this awesome video of our clinical work? Big big thanks to Em Harger for producing this magical short film. IG: @selfhealherbs FB: https://www.facebook.com/self.heal.herbal.clinic Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/samwiseraridoncommunityherbalist?fan_landing=true Sam's Website: https://www.selfhealherbs.com/

Join host Samwise Raridon and Clinical Herbalist, Teacher, Artist and Urban Gardener Bonnie Rose Weaver for an in depth discussion of the herb vitex, the utility of tracking out hormonal cycles and the lasting cultural impact of the film Mean Girls. In this episode, Bonnie Rose generously shares an exercise for understanding how hormonal cycles for folks who bleed can work, so if you feel inspired to learn along, we invite you to grab a piece of paper and a drawing tool. Big big thank you to Bonnie Rose for being such a dear friend, teacher and comrade all these years. We mention a book in the episode that is useful to learn from called "Taking Charge of your Fertility" by Toni Weschler If you want to learn more about Bonnie Rose Weaver's work, you can check out their website and follow them on Instagram @bonnieroseweaver Art Credit: Bonnie Rose Weaver --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Herb at the End of the World is created by Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, teacher and organizer of germanic, celtic and Lebanese lineages living as a guest in unceded Shawnee, Osage, Ofo and Mesopelea (otherwise known as Adena and Hopewell) land, colonially known as Athens, Ohio. This podcast will always be offered freely. If you're inspired by this work and want to support others in accessing healing and learning, please consider joining us as a patron on Patreon. If you are inspired by this work please leave us a five star review wherever you listen to podcasts so more people can find out about these resources! Have you seen this awesome video of our clinical work? Big big thanks to Em Harger for producing this magical short film. IG: @selfhealherbs FB: https://www.facebook.com/self.heal.herbal.clinic Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/samwiseraridoncommunityherbalist?fan_landing=true Sam's Website: https://www.selfhealherbs.com/

Join Samwise Raridon Community Herbalist and Violet, Artist and Herbalist, for a powerful and honest conversation about how being in relationship with the plants and our minds can help us change our lives for the better. Together they talk about using meditation and california poppy to work with the energies of addiction and other challenges of being very human. For folks who are inspired to begin a meditation or contemplation practice as a way to tend for our spirits, Violet recommends a meditation app inspired by Thich Nhat Hanh's work called The Plum Village App. You can also check out some of Pema Chodron's free meditation instruction videos on youtube. You can find out more about Violet's work and classes at her website https://witchcraftapothecary.com/ and see some of her amazing tattoo work on Instagram at @witchcraft_apothecary . Also check out this awesome and bad ass article about her on East Bay Yesterday. Art Credit for Episode Art: California Poppy Tattoo by Violet Big thanks to Seed Minkin for their guest appearance at the end of the episode sharing a bit about why they chose California Poppy to appear on the shirts and stickers for the Queer Trans Youth and Allies summer camp they direct. If you want to find out more about the film that uplifts queer and trans youth joy and support the filmmakers in raising some finishing funds for the film, you can buy these rad shirts and learn more at https://www.bonfire.com/store/metamorph-mentorship/ and their website at https://metamorphmentorship.com/ . --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Herb at the End of the World is created by Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, teacher and organizer of germanic, celtic and lebanese lineages living as a guest in unceded Shawnee, Osage, Ofo and Mesopelea (otherwise known as Adena and Hopewell) land, colonially known as Athens, Ohio. This podcast will always be offered freely. If you're inspired by this work and want to support others in accessing healing and learning, please consider joining us as a patron on Patreon. If you are inspired by this work please leave us a five star review wherever you listen to podcasts so more people can find out about these resources! Have you seen this awesome video of our clinical work? Big big thanks to Em Harger for producing this magical short film. IG: @selfhealherbs FB: https://www.facebook.com/self.heal.herbal.clinic Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/samwiseraridoncommunityherbalist?fan_landing=true Sam's Website: https://www.selfhealherbs.com/

Join Herbalist and Peer Counselor Gabrielle Ishkanian Greenberg and Community Herbalist Samwise Raridon for a deep dive into the soothing and powerful properties of California Poppy. Together we talk about how this plant inspires us to care deeply for our nervous systems and our bodies, how cal poppy can help us tap more deeply into our own power and consent, and how we as people in our community can show up for the mental health of those around us. You can find out more about Gabrielle's peer counseling, herbal and photography work through her Instagram @gbrllgrnbrg. Photo Credit for Episode Art belongs to Gabrielle Ishkanian Greenberg. Find out more about Transformative Mental Health and The Institute for the Development for Human Arts at https://www.idha-nyc.org/ and more about how to build peer support networks at Project LETS https://projectlets.org/. If you're interested to learn more about Samwise's Ancestral Healing for White Folks Class Series, you can check out their website at https://www.selfhealherbs.com/ancestral-healing-for-white-folks --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Herb at the End of the World is created by Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, teacher and organizer of germanic, celtic and Lebanese lineages living as a guest in unceded Shawnee, Osage, Ofo and Mesopelea (otherwise known as Adena and Hopewell) land, colonially known as Athens, Ohio. This podcast will always be offered freely. If you're inspired by this work and want to support others in accessing healing and learning, please consider joining us as a patron on Patreon. If you are inspired by this work please leave us a five star review wherever you listen to podcasts so more people can find out about these resources! Have you seen this awesome video of our clinical work? Big big thanks to Em Harger for producing this magical short film. IG: @selfhealherbs FB: https://www.facebook.com/self.heal.herbal.clinic Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/samwiseraridoncommunityherbalist?fan_landing=true Sam's Website: https://www.selfhealherbs.com/

Join Samwise Raridon Community Herbalist and Andi Webb of Every Light Wellness for a powerful and tender conversation on the many useful teachings of the herb plantain. Plantain is so helpful at both soothing inflammation and drawing out poisons or irritants, both on the physical and spiritual level. Thank you so much to Andi for your powerful vulnerability, realness and wisdom. You can find out more about Andi's work at https://everylightwellness.squarespace.com. You can donate to support the creation of Andi's burgeoning accessible herbal school through Venmo: @EveryLightWellness Thank you so much to Liz Fitzgerald, my dear friend and comrade, for sharing their story about Plantain in a short at the end of the episode! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Herb at the End of the World is created by Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, teacher and organizer of germanic, celtic and Lebanese lineages living as a guest in unceded Shawnee, Osage, Ofo and Mesopelea (otherwise known as Adena and Hopewell) land, colonially known as Athens, Ohio. This podcast will always be offered freely. If you're inspired by this work and want to support others in accessing healing and learning, please consider joining us as a patron on Patreon. If you are inspired by this work please leave us a five star review wherever you listen to podcasts so more people can find out about these resources! Have you seen this awesome video of our work? Big big thanks to Emily Harger for producing this magical short film. IG: @selfhealherbs FB: https://www.facebook.com/self.heal.herbal.clinic Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/samwiseraridoncommunityherbalist?fan_landing=true Sam's Website: https://www.selfhealherbs.com/

Join clinical herbalist and educator Abi Huff and Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, for a beautiful exploration of the energy of nettles. The themes of boundaries, aliveness and authenticity weave throughout the episode. Abi is currently crafting a new herbal educational offering that offers a much needed political and liberatory approach to herbalism. If you'd like to check out the classes they offer and stay updated about the unfolding of their work, you can follow them on Instagram at @_thestingingnettle_ . Much gratitude to Abi for so powerfully and vulnerably sharing their experience and wisdom. Big thank you as well to my dear friend and song leader Debbie who recorded a short for this episode and graces us with two songs and a powerful poem about nettles. Thank you for harvesting nettles for my household as well! Here's a link to the book that Debbie shares from in the short: Nettle Eater by Tom Hirons on Hedgespoken Press https://hedgespokenpress.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Herb at the End of the World is created by Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, teacher and organizer of germanic, celtic and Lebanese lineages living as a guest in unceded Shawnee, Osage, Ofo and Mesopelea (otherwise known as Adena and Hopewell) land, colonially known as Athens, Ohio. This podcast will always be offered freely. If you're inspired by this work and want to support others in accessing healing and learning, please consider joining us as a patron on Patreon. If you are inspired by this work please leave us a five star review wherever you listen to podcasts so more people can find out about these resources! Have you seen this awesome video of our work? Big big thanks to Emily Harger for producing this magical short film. IG: @selfhealherbs FB: https://www.facebook.com/self.heal.herbal.clinic Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/samwiseraridoncommunityherbalist?fan_landing=true Sam's Website: https://www.selfhealherbs.com/

Join Jheri Neri, Executive Director of the Greater Cincinnati Native American Coalition (GCNAC) and Indigenous Activist as we explore some of the most important healing work of our time. Jheri shares about the powerful and needed offerings of the Greater Cincinnati Native American Coalition and ways for folks to support this vital and life affirming work. We also talk about what it might mean to walk in balance for different folks, as inspired in part by the generosity and remembrance of the plants and trees like Maple. This is a generous offering of wisdom and experience on the part of Jheri, so many, many thanks to Jheri and all the folks at GCNAC for taking the time to share it with The Herb at the End of the World. If you want to join me in supporting the GCNAC's Land Back Initiative and the other amazing work they do, you can donate and find more ways to get involved, including checking out their amazing events they have coming up, at their website: https://gcnativeamericancoalition.com If you'd like to find out more about the book There There by Tommy Orange, you can check it out here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/563403/there-there-by-tommy-orange/ You can find out more about artist, scholar, and community organizer Lyla June at her website here: https://www.lylajune.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Herb at the End of the World is created by Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, teacher and organizer of germanic, celtic and Lebanese lineages living as a guest in unceded Shawnee, Osage, Ofo and Mesopelea (otherwise known as Adena and Hopewell) land, colonially known as Athens, Ohio. This podcast will always be offered freely. If you're inspired by this work and want to support others in accessing healing and learning, please consider joining us as a patron on Patreon. If you are inspired by this work please leave us a five star review wherever you listen to podcasts so more people can find out about these resources! Have you seen this awesome video of our work? Big big thanks to Emily Harger for producing this magical short film. IG: @selfhealherbs FB: https://www.facebook.com/self.heal.herbal.clinic Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/samwiseraridoncommunityherbalist?fan_landing=true Sam's Website: https://www.selfhealherbs.com/

Join Samwise Raridon, Community Herbalist and Bob and Rebecca of Currents intentional community in Shawnee, Osage, Adena and Hopewell land (colonially known as South Eastern Ohio) for an exploration of the energy of Maple and the joyous and arduous project of making maple syrup. Maple is a tree that evokes an energy of motherly protection, abundance, sweetness and also balance, boundaries and reciprocity. In this episode we explore what it means to get a "no" when approaching a plant (which is actually a gift!) and what it could mean to orient towards giving back to the lands we are on, and especially what it could mean for settlers to give to the land and the people who have cared for the land since time immemorial from whom so much has been taken. We also touch on the sweetness of connection that keeps us going in these generational journeys of restoring healing and balance. In the spirit of moving towards balance and reciprocity, we invite you to join us in donating to the vital educational and coalition building work of the Greater Cincinnati Native American Coalition. A link to their donation page can be found here: https://gcnativeamericancoalition.com Another wonderful and powerful project we encourage you to donate to is the Sogorea'Te Land Trust, a land rematriation project led by Indigenous Women. They have blessedly set up a land tax calculator and are graciously accepting Shuumi, a gift of land tax from settlers living on stolen lands. More about their amazing work can be found here: https://sogoreate-landtrust.org --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Herb at the End of the World is created by Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, teacher and organizer of germanic, celtic and lebanese lineages living as a guest in Osage, Adena, Hopewell and Shawnee land, colonially known as Athens, Ohio. This podcast will always be offered freely. If you're inspired by this work and want to support others in accessing healing and learning, please consider joining us as a patron on Patreon. Also if you are inspired by this work please leave us a five star review where ever you listen to podcasts so more people can find out about these resources! Have you seen this awesome video of our work? Big big thanks to Emily Harger for producing this magical short film. IG: @selfhealherbs FB: https://www.facebook.com/self.heal.herbal.clinic Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/samwiseraridoncommunityherbalist?fan_landing=true Sam's Website: https://www.selfhealherbs.com/

Join me, Samwise Raridon of Self Heal Herbs, and Karly Ketron of Wise Witch Apothecary as we talk about the regenerative and healing power of Pine. The energy of Pine carries themes of healing big shame, of moving through despondency and of learning to embody healthy and positive masculinities. Big thank you as well to artist and filmmaker Em Harger for contributing their powerful short story at the end of the episode about how the energy of Pine has shown up for them in their life and healing their relationship with their father. Both of these stories together do a really beautiful job of honoring the energy of Pine. It's also just a really moving episode and one of the favorites I have made so far. I hope you enjoy. To learn more about Karly's powerful educational work and their podcast, Wise Wytch Wellness, you can go to https://www.wisewytch.com. To see some of Em Harger's art, you can follow them on instagram at @emharger. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Herb at the End of the World is created by Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, teacher and organizer based in Adena, Hopewell and Shawnee land, colonially known as Athens, Ohio. This podcast will always be offered freely. If you're inspired by this work and want to support others in accessing healing and learning, please consider joining us as a patron on Patreon. Also if you are inspired by this work please leave us a five star review where ever you listen to podcasts so more people can find out about these resources! Have you seen this awesome video of our work? Big big thanks to Emily Harger for producing this magical short film. IG: @selfhealherbs FB: https://www.facebook.com/self.heal.herbal.clinic Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/samwiseraridoncommunityherbalist?fan_landing=true Sam's Website: https://www.selfhealherbs.com/

Join Samwise Raridon, Community Herbalist and Heather Enders, the creator of the Tarot of Plants for a fun and lively conversation on the Apple as the World Card and other tasty tidbits of apple lore. Heather is an artist who's in touch with plants and a folk astrologer who creates regular content on their website https://www.emptyandamazing.com/. You can also find Heather on Instagram at @emptyandamazing . Thank you so much for a great conversation and some inspiration to get to know the tarot and the plants around us more (including potatoes!). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Herb at the End of the World is created by Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, teacher and organizer based in Adena, Hopewell and Shawnee land, colonially known as Athens, Ohio. This podcast will always be offered freely. If you're inspired by this work and want to support others in accessing healing and learning, please consider joining us as a patron on Patreon. Also if you are inspired by this work please leave us a five star review where ever you listen to podcasts so more people can find out about these resources! Have you seen this awesome video of our work? Big big thanks to Emily Harger for producing this magical short film. IG: @selfhealherbs FB: https://www.facebook.com/self.heal.herbal.clinic Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/samwiseraridoncommunityherbalist?fan_landing=true Sam's Website: https://www.selfhealherbs.com/

Join Samwise Raridon, Community Herbalist and Educator in conversation with Farmer, Birthworker and Fiber Artist Margy Sankey. Together we delve deep into apple magic and cultivation, the power of witnessing birth and how weaving art through all aspects of life gives it that juicy vitality that apples are so well known for. I learned so much interviewing Margy and I hope you do too! You can find out more about Margy's fiber art and check out their exhibition One Year, One Outfit (which was just featured on NPR!) at the Praxis Fiber Studio in Cleaveland. You can find out more about the idea of a fibershed and what it means to locally produce fiber and textiles at Fibershed.org. There's also a great book called Fibershed by Rebecca Burgess and Courtney White that's a great resource. Also, here's a link to more about Granny Smith's story of witnessing french crab apples birth a new (to us) cultivar of apple! For more info on where to get apple and other fruit tree root stock and grafting materials, you can check out where Margy got theirs at Cummin's Nursery. The book Margy mentioned in the episode is Michael Phillip's book The Apple Grower: A Guide for the Organic Orchardist. Big thanks for Margy for sharing so much wisdom and experience! And always, thank you so much to the apple tree in it's many forms. You hold so much wisdom, wildness and remembering. Photo Credit in Episode Art: Margy Sankey --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Herb at the End of the World is created by Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, teacher and organizer based in Adena, Hopewell and Shawnee land, colonially known as Athens, Ohio. This podcast will always be offered freely. If you're inspired by this work and want to support others in accessing healing and learning, please consider joining us as a patron on Patreon. Also if you are inspired by this work please leave us a five star review where ever you listen to podcasts so more people can find out about these resources! Have you seen this awesome video of our work? Big big thanks to Emily Harger for producing this magical short film. IG: @selfhealherbs FB: https://www.facebook.com/self.heal.herbal.clinic Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/samwiseraridoncommunityherbalist?fan_landing=true Sam's Website: https://www.selfhealherbs.com/

Content Warning: This episode discusses histories of desecration around wells and the people who tend them and using rape as a tool of empire building. (No graphic descriptions). It also contains a story about a young girl seeking answers to a devastating plague (that ultimately ends on a hopeful note). Here's a little bonus episode on the healing lore and powers of the waters of life and death and a powerful story that came to me in 2019. I've been thinking about this idea of the necessity of the waters of death (and life!) and it seems a fitting exploration as I witness the deep drought and climate chaos of this time. I hope this episode brings some solace, some resonance and some hope. My apologies that in the story of the Owl Witch I mention there being guardian oak growing in multiple places, and my little California heart forgot that Guardian Oak doesn't grow in Appalachia! I meant Guardian Ivy! I have much to learn about the plant beings there :) Also, here is a link to the Fair Folk podcast I mentioned, which is produced by Danica Boyce. It is a great resource for people of European lineage to reconnect with some of their own lifeways. After spending some more time with this episode, I would have liked to include some advice for Mary to do that vital work of reconnecting to her own lifeways and lineage so that she has the strength and resilience to keep seeking healing and balance. It is so important that colonizer descended peoples do this so that we can remember how to be in the family of things. https://soundcloud.com/fairfolkcast --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Herb at the End of the World is created by Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, teacher and organizer of the Self Heal Herbs Mobile Free Clinic based in unceded Ohlone and Southern Pomo Territory (colonially known as oakland and sebastopol CA). This podcast will always be offered freely. If you're inspired by this work and want to support others in accessing healing and learning, please consider joining us as a patron on Patreon. Also if you are inspired by this work please leave us a five star review where ever you listen to podcasts so more people can find out about these resources! Have you seen this awesome video of our work? Big big thanks to Emily Harger for producing this magical short film. IG: @selfhealherbs FB: https://www.facebook.com/self.heal.herbal.clinic Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/samwiseraridoncommunityherbalist?fan_landing=true Sam's Website: https://www.selfhealherbs.com/

Join Samwise Raridon Community Herbalist and Madeleine Keller Folk Herbalist as they dig into the heart opening and powerfully protective wonders of Rose. We talk about how the smell and sight and taste and texture of Rose can be so helpful in big transition times or in times of great grief and great joy, like our current moment in July 2021 where we're on the precipice of fire season, feeling into this hot queer summer and grappling with the unknown trajectory of the corona virus. You can find out more bout Madeleine's work through their Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/madeleinelkeller . If you'd like to attend their upcoming class on Queerness in the Plant World, you can register at https://mailchi.mp/1cdb9c2b5cb6/qrfxlednin. Listening to this later and want to find out about Madeleine's upcoming classes? You can sign up for their mailing list at https://gmail.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=f6532effa674f0a25e3886d2d&id=c6e0d880e0 Big thanks for Bonnie Rose Weaver for providing a snippet on the game Rose, Bud, Thorn! You can find out more about Bonnie Rose's work on their Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/bonnieroseweaver Also, I mentioned the great work of the Sonoma County Herb Exchange where I got this amazing pound of rose petals. You can sign up to support that non-profit and request to purchase fresh local herbs at https://www.sonomaherbs.org/membership. Song Credit: Edith Piaf "La Vie En Rose" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Herb at the End of the World is created by Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, teacher and organizer of the Self Heal Herbs Mobile Free Clinic based in unceded Ohlone and Southern Pomo Territory (colonially known as oakland and sebastopol CA). This podcast will always be offered freely. If you're inspired by this work and want to support others in accessing healing and learning, please consider joining us as a patron on Patreon. Also if you are inspired by this work please leave us a five star review where ever you listen to podcasts so more people can find out about these resources! Have you seen this awesome video of our work? Big big thanks to Emily Harger for producing this magical short film. IG: @selfhealherbs FB: https://www.facebook.com/self.heal.herbal.clinic Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/samwiseraridoncommunityherbalist?fan_landing=true Sam's Website: https://www.selfhealherbs.com/

Join Samwise Raridon Community Herbalist and Dana Aronson Clinical Herbalist of the Klamath Siskiyou Herbal Alliance while we sing the praises of Yarrow and how it helps us remember that herbalism is the peoples' medicine. Blessed yarrow, healer of wounds and keeper of boundaries! Heads up that in this episode we do discuss blood and woundcare, so if that's not something you want to listen to right now, it's always ok to come back and listen another time. You can find out more about Dana Aronson's private practice at https://www.wildkinbotanicals.com/ and you can follow them on instagram @_wildkin You can find out more about the Klamath Siskiyou Herbal Alliance and donate to help them prepare for fire season at https://ksherbalalliance.weebly.com/ or email ksherbalalliance@gmail.com to book a consult --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Herb at the End of the World is created by Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, teacher and organizer of the Self Heal Herbs Mobile Free Clinic based in unceded Ohlone and Southern Pomo Territory (colonially known as oakland and sebastopol CA). This podcast will always be offered freely. If you're inspired by this work and want to support others in accessing healing and learning, please consider joining us as a patron on Patreon. Also if you are inspired by this work please leave us a five star review where ever you listen to podcasts so more people can find out about these resources! Have you seen this awesome video of our work? Big big thanks to Emily Harger for producing this magical short film. IG: @selfhealherbs FB: https://www.facebook.com/self.heal.herbal.clinic Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/samwiseraridoncommunityherbalist?fan_landing=true Sam's Website: https://www.selfhealherbs.com/

CONTENT WARNING: Please note that in this episode we talk about violence and murder, and do so respectfully, but if that's not a topic you want to listen to right now, it's always ok to come back and listen another time. Join Samwise Raridon and Seed Meyer Minkin for a vulnerable and profound exploration of the power of chamomile. Chamomile, as we discuss on this episode, is really helpful for being with the energy of fear, even really big fear. This episode is a really sweet and tender gift to the world, made of our collective learnings about this powerful but often underestimated plant. Also big thank you to Vanessa Radman of @witch.handz Cimaruta Healing and my mom Susan Nawa-Raridon for sharing their chamomile stories at the end of the episode. And thank you as always to the patrons that make this all happen! Speaking of patrons, this May we are doing a May Membership Drive to grow our support on Patreon! Getting more patrons means that we can keep developing this podcast and do even more work with the classes and the clinical offerings. It lets me give my most joyous gift to this world! This month, if you sign up to be a $20 or more patron on Patreon before May 31st I'll send you two printed zines written by me (Crafting Delicious and Effective Medicinal Oxymels, and Flower Essences for Greif and Transformation), a Herbalism is Peoples Medicine sticker and a hand painted thank you note. Folks who sign up for the $5 a month level are also really appreciated and will receive a Herbalism is People's Medicine Sticker and a hand written thank you note. Of course everyone who signs up get's access to all my online classes, weekly herbal and magical educational videos and access to the Sapling Circle, a circle of care and support for folks who are on their healing and magical journeys. Thank you to everyone who supports this work, we love you and appreciate you!! Your support really really helps. Our next herb of the month for the Herb at the End of the World will be Yarrow! If you would like to share a story about yarrow, click on the link below and share your 1 - 3 minute story and we'll try to incorporate it! https://anchor.fm/herbatthendoftheworld/message --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Herb at the End of the World is created by Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, teacher and organizer of the Self Heal Herbs Mobile Free Clinic based in unceded Ohlone and Southern Pomo Territory (colonially known as oakland and sebastopol CA). This podcast will always be offered freely. If you're inspired by this work and want to support others in accessing healing and learning, please consider joining us as a patron on Patreon. Also if you are inspired by this work please leave us a five star review where ever you listen to podcasts so more people can find out about these resources! Have you seen this awesome video of our work? Big big thanks to Emily Harger for producing this magical short film. IG: @selfhealherbs FB: https://www.facebook.com/self.heal.herbal.clinic Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/samwiseraridoncommunityherbalist?fan_landing=true Sam's Website: https://www.selfhealherbs.com/

Join us for a deep dive into the powerful world of ancestral remembering with rosemary. Our guests for this episode are Community Herbalist and Intuitive Healer Vanessa Radman and Community Herbalist and Wisdom Weaver Rose Rothfeder. Together we share powerful and tender stories about how this plant has helped us remember how to be human in these bodies in these times. It's a beautiful and vital discussion, just like Rosemary. Also big thanks to our guest stars short story contributors Community Herbalist and Herbal Farmer Bonnie Rose Weaver and Dear Friend and Beautiful Human Anna Frattolillo! Here are some of the land rematriation links we mentioned at the top of the show. I really encourage folks to connect with a land back and/or land rematriation effort in your area. Making a monetary gift is a powerful way to begin reweaving a good relationship with the land and the people who have tended it for time immemorial. It's a beautiful practice to do while we are also healing our relationships with our own lineages. Here are some ways to do that: The Sogorea Te' Land Trust - based in Ohlone land (colonially known as the bay area) https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/shuumi-land-tax/ The Apache Stronghold - based in Apache land (colonially known as arizona) http://apache-stronghold.com/about-us.html The Manna-hatta Fund - based in Lenni Lenape land (colonially known as new york) https://mannahattafund.org/ If you want to check out Vanessa's upcoming ancestral healing workshop (which is going to be amazing!), you can do that here: https://scarletsage.com/collections/classes/products/connecting-with-ancestral-guidance-for-personal-and-collective-healing-with-vanessa-radman-september-29th-6-8pm-pt If you want to submit a short 1 - 3 minute story for the next episode on Chamomile, you can do that here! We'd love to hear your voice! https://anchor.fm/herbatthendoftheworld/message --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Herb at the End of the World is created by Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, teacher and organizer of the Self Heal Herbs Mobile Free Clinic based in unceded Ohlone and Southern Pomo Territory (colonially known as oakland and sebastopol CA). This podcast will always be offered freely. If you're inspired by this work and want to support others in accessing healing and learning, please consider joining us as a patron on Patreon. Also if you are inspired by this work please leave us a five star review where ever you listen to podcasts so more people can find out about these resources! Have you seen this awesome video of our work? Big big thanks to Emily Harger for producing this magical short film. IG: @selfhealherbs FB: https://www.facebook.com/self.heal.herbal.clinic Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/samwiseraridoncommunityherbalist?fan_landing=true Sam's Website: https://www.selfhealherbs.com/

This is a beautiful and powerful episode about Garlic and the power of accessible healing education with Community Shaman, Family Herbalist and Health and Wellness Educator Jesse Garcia. Jesse shares their beautiful vision of what our relationships might feel like if we all had more familiar connection with plants and how herbs like Garlic might be a way to get to know our own healing powers and abilities to transform and grow into our most magical alive selves. Jesse is based outside of Austin, Texas, which was recently hit by some climate chaos fueled devastating cold weather and is doing beautiful work sharing about how plants and community can support folks in this time. If you want to check out and support Jesse's work and the collective work of the Herbal Action Project, you can check them out on Instagram at @jesgarciaherbals and @herbalactionproject. You can email Jesse Garcia and the folks at Herbal Action Project at weareherbalaction@gmail.com for more info on healing sessions, herbal and healing education, and for more information on how to collaborate with them. Jesse also has a patreon where folks can support their work in an ongoing way. Yes to more free and accessible herbal education! https://www.patreon.com/jesgarcia If you want to support them with a one time gift, you can do so through their venmo, paypal or cashapp: Venmo: @Jesus-Garcia-230 Paypal: @JesusGGarcia CashAp: @ $TheJesG Venmo: @Jesus-Garcia-230 Herbal Action Project's current art collaboration project will be showcased in April 2021 with Collaboration of Marcelo Villasenor - VisualMantraArt. This project will be a community driven educational resource Plant Spirit Card Deck and Visual Mantra Expression on 12 Spirit Plants and their ability to open up healing through guided plant meditations. IG: VisualMantra.Art Web: www.VisualMantra.art Big thanks as well to Community Herbalist and Visual Designer Lizanne Deliz at IG @eyeofcrowherbs and Aryuvedic Practitioner, Wellness Educator, Sound Magician and Conflict Coach Sonia Cook at IG @cookhari for sharing your garlic stories with us! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Herb at the End of the World is created by Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, teacher and organizer of the Self Heal Herbs Mobile Free Clinic based in unceded Ohlone and Southern Pomo Territory (colonially known as Oakland and Sebastopol CA). This podcast will always be offered freely. If you're inspired by this work and want to support others in accessing healing and learning, please consider joining us as a patron on Patreon. Also if you like this work please leave us a five star review where ever you listen to podcasts so more people can find out about these resources! Have you seen this awesome video of our work? Big big thanks to Emily Harger for producing this magical short film. IG: @selfhealherbs FB: https://www.facebook.com/self.heal.herbal.clinic Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/samwiseraridoncommunityherbalist?fan_landing=true Sam's Website: https://www.selfhealherbs.com/

Join the magical Seed Minkin and I as we discuss the enlivening, beautiful and healing qualities of Dandelion. It supports your liver! It helps release anger! It helps you have really really good poops! In this episode we share stories from childhood about dandelion and how it's supporting our bodies now. We also run away from a lawn mower and hide in the bathroom where we tell stories about good poops and sing an ode to the feeling of letting go. We had a lot of fun making this episode so I hope you enjoy it! Also*** Seed mentions the herb pig's weed but they meant to say Purslane! Not sure if you can eat pig's weed, but Purslane is definitely edible and a great source of Omega 3's! Always make sure to identify the plants you plant to eat 100% to make sure they are safe! Seed Minkin's Website: https://metamorphmentorship.com/ Bay Area Herbal Response Team (BayHRT): https://bayhrt.weebly.com/ Artist Savannah Freedman's Etsy Shop (who made the plant flags in out living room!): https://www.etsy.com/shop/MoonvillePrintShop --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Herb at the End of the World is created by Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, teacher and organizer of the Self Heal Herbs Mobile Free Clinic based in unceded Ohlone and Southern Pomo Territory (colonially known as Oakland and Sebastopol CA). This podcast, teachings and clinic will always be offered freely. If you're inspired by this work and want to support others in accessing healing and learning, please consider joining us as a patron on Patreon. Also if you like this work please leave us a five star review where ever you listen to podcasts so more people can find out about these resources! Have you seen this awesome video of our work? Big big thanks to Emily Harger for producing this magical short film. IG: @selfhealherbs FB: https://www.facebook.com/self.heal.herbal.clinic Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/samwiseraridoncommunityherbalist?fan_landing=true Sam's Website: https://www.selfhealherbs.com/

A sweet exploration of some lore of the Linden tree and how it has helped Samwise forgive and heal some legacies of trauma in their family line. Heads up that this episode acknowledges the existence of inter-generational sexual trauma, but does not include graphic descriptions of violence. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Herb at the End of the World is created by Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, teacher and organizer of the Self Heal Herbs Mobile Free Clinic based in unceded Ohlone and Southern Pomo Territory (colonially known as Oakland and Sebastopol CA). This podcast, teachings and clinic will always be offered freely. If you're inspired by this work and want to support others in accessing healing and learning, please consider joining us as a supporter on Patreon. Have you seen this awesome video of our work?? Big big thanks to Emily Harger for producing this magical short film. Follow us on Instagram

In this episode I get to interview Ben, a wise and funny painter, punk rock aficionado, and philosopher who's currently living at the Here/There encampment in North Oakland. Join us as we spend some time in the camp talking about what it's like living with Covid, how our system of economics is a fiction, how housing is a human right, and that one time a weasel climbed into a particle accelerator.

An interview with Rene Rivera, Dharma Teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center and mugwort aficionado. We talk about the powers of mugwort as a plant, as a beautiful powerful medicine and a vital accessible link to our stone people past. Rene is one of the organizers of the trans and gender queer Monday night sit and teaches with the Alphabet Sangha on Tuesdays from time to time. You can find out more about his work at https://eastbaymeditation.org/.

A talk I gave as part of the California School of Herbal Studies Community Herbalist program on beginning an ancestral healing practice as a white person in the context of white supremacy. Ancestral healing is an important tool for resisting white supremacy and building a more connected, grounded and interconnected world.

Song As Medicine