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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.