You are the Wilds: Restoring Relational Herbalism with Ash Ritter
As the popularity of therapeutic herbs & fungi finds an algorithmic foothold in the Colonized West, attitudes and approaches of the industrialized mind influence how we perceive medicine, approach agriculture, and make sense of self and world. Yet, within us and all around us, there exists a microbial zoo, an archaic culture calling us into the wilds once more.
Coming to terms with the impacts of reductionism in personal & environmental wellbeing, the importance of interspecies relations slowly but surely takes center stage. How has industrialization impacted our attitudes of nature & as nature? What are the connections between big-agriculture and extractive herbalism? How does the fertility of the land directly impact the richness of our human and more-than-human experiences? What would it look like if our work with plants became cherished as a relationship as opposed to a hierarchical model of dominance and submission? Join us for a spirited exploration of Western medicine history, what the plants can teach us, and how to embrace the organic algorithm.
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Ash RitterEthnobotanist, Herbalist, WriterEthnobotanist, educator, multi-disciplinary animist, poet in disguise as an herbalist – for over 20 years, Ash Ritter continues to reverently devote her life to fungal & botanical studies, encompassing traditional, academic, clinical, and directly relational terrains. Ash counsels and creates in her private practice, Black Sage Botanicals, to empower cooperative sovereignty, engaging a direct relationship with & as the living world.
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Thank you very much for an interesting and thought provoking message.
A pleasure to share! Thanks Jd.
Thank you Ash!
Thanks for listening! 🙂
great! refreshing ways of re-imagining the world.
I love the framing of fungi – metabolising (breakdowns); metabolising (breakthroughs).
Opened up a whole world; and what a great question to ask yourself – “what is immunity?”
Thank you for your energy and wisdom.
Tickled by your comments and sparks of curiosity here. Thanks for listening, Andrew!
Fantastic presentation, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I am inspired by your balanced approach to learning about our relationships to plants and environment.
Thank you, Ash 🙂
Thank you, Elijah!
Really thought provoking! Thanks!
Fantastic! 🙂
Beautifuly expressed and incredibly informitive. I was moved deeply by this presentation. Thank you Ash.
Thank you for sharing this, Jackie! My heart is happy.