Finding Medicine Where You Are: Farmer Self-Care Remedies from the Land You Already Know

This interactive workshop invites farmers to deepen our connection with the plants we often battle in our fields. Many of the plants we see as “weeds” – dandelion, plantain, nettle, violet, dock, goldenrod and more – have long lineages of being part of routine wellness care for people and land. This workshop is a step towards reclaiming these relationships within a context of LAND BACK to and solidarity with those who most intimately know this place. This workshop will share plant profiles of some of these plants and a few easy recipes for how to craft with them to make self-care and land-care remedies. Being of Irish and mixed European descent, and with the majority of my herbalism study having been based in Ireland, I will focus on plants that grow both in that region as well as CT/Quinnetukqut. We’ll end with some Q&A time and crafting an herbal tea bag to take home!