Plants + Reciprocal Relationship w— Herbalist Gina Badger
My guest today is Gina Badger, and she is an energetic clinical herbalist. She shares about how to build reciprocal relationships with plants and with the land, particularly as a non-indigenous person. Gina also breaks down what our bodies need right now in light of the pandemic and what plants can be our allies and how we can use them.
we discuss
How she emerged from the art world into the work of a “kitchen witch”
How being a settler is a fundamental orientation to how she relates to the land
How she thinks about reciprocal relationship to the land in her practice
Permission + consent in our relationship with plants
How to do plant meditations
The experience of dissociation as a coping mechanism
How her definitions of self care have changed
Her priorities for preventative care right now
The plants that she recommends we interact with right now
The teaching for this moment from gravel root
links
More about our guest —
Mentioned in the episode —
Blue Otter School of Herbal Medicine
Layla Feghali, River Rose Remembrance
Portland Plant Medicine Gathering
White Cedar (thuja occidentalis)
Robin Wall Kimmerer - "honorable harvest"
The Rise Disaster Capitalism, Naomi Klein (book)
Get Radical, Boil Roots (document)
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L I S T E N
We started this season reflecting on the house of the goddess, and now we end where we began — carrying water medicine and the wisdom of Her with us into the summer sun.