Herbal Action Podcast

Kristine Brown is a registered herbalist with the American Herbalists Guild, herbal educator, writer, and artist from the St. Louis area. She is the mastermind behind Herbal Roots zine, a beautiful magazine that has been exposing kids to the wonders of plants and herbs, and she is the author of the new book Herbalism at Home. We talk about the next generation of herbalists, and bringing herbal and nature education into your home and family.

Nicole Rose is an organiser, grassroots herbalist and agroecologist living in England who has been active in struggles for human, animal and earth liberation for over 20 years. Nicole did a 3.5-year prison sentence aged 21 amidst a decade of state repression against the campaign to close down Europe’s largest animal testing company. She’s been supporting loved ones in prison for over 15 years and recently founded the Solidarity Apothecary, a project supplying free plant medicines to people experiencing and recovering from state violence and repression. www.solidarityapothecary.org Nicole Rose is author of the Prisoner's Herbal.

Many HWB Chapters organize People’s Clinics. People’s Clinics are free or sliding scale holistic health clinics that can take many forms - popup clinic at a table in a community room or local health food store, mobile clinic via bike, van, bus, cart. A monthly repeat clinic at a specific location. A disaster relief clinic after a hurricane, forest fire, flood, or catastrophic event. We may want to reach the homeless community, veterans, people in recovery, or families in shelters. In many cases, if we want to reach marginalized communities - especially for disaster relief - we must work with or alongside the public health system to reach those in need. Finn is working with HWB to help Organizers connect those dots to utilize the tools needed to integrate into PH systems.

Herbalists Without Borders chats with Leah Wolf about Radical Herbalism. For Leah, radical herbalism is a combination of roots, restoration, resistance, and resilience. She integrates these four concepts into a four element system of herbalism to help her students understand how to go deeper in understanding health and wellness issues..http://herbalistswithoutborders.weebly.com/herbal-action-podcast.html

This episode Denise Cusack of Herbalists Without Borders interviews Leslie Alexander. Leslie Alexander is a professional herbalist  and owner of Restoration Herbs in Erie, PA. Leslie is Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalists Guild, and is serving her third term on the AHG Council. Leslie is author of the book Dental Herbalism: Natural Therapies for the Mouth, and teaches on this topic throughout the US.  She also works with individuals one-on-one, and teaches on any number of topics, including clinical skill development and medicine making.

HWB Executive Director Denise Cusack speaks with Ola Obasi of Well of Indigenous Wisdom School and HWB Puerto Rico. They discuss ongoing relief and recovery from hurricane Maria, honoring indigenous wisdom, respecting local customs and culture in our work, decolonizing volunteerism and herbalism, community building, and herbs as a spiritual practice. Find out more about Ola's classes, her work, Omaroti, HWB Puerto Rico, and more: ​https://www.wellofindigenouswisdom.com/Or visit HWB: http://herbalistswithoutborders.weebly.com/

HWB interviews Karen Henderson, organizer and founder of the Veterans Resiliency Holistic Clinic in Richmond, VA. Karen hosts a monthly clinic for veterans and their families, providing almost a dozen holistic health modalities. This clinic is a donation only clinic and no one is turned away due to inability to pay. Find out more about her inspiring work and this low/no cost community clinic model.