May we access all the internal and external resources we need for radical self love and vibrant living.
We are co-creating a more loving, healthy, just, sustainable, spirited world. Thankfully, there is an abundance of good folks and resources to guide us in this hopeful journey. Here are a few friends, mentors, organizations, and books that inspire me. Please support them and feel free to share your sheroes/heroes, favorite groups and books with me. **Be sure to also check out my Resilience & Solidarity through Covid-19 resource page.**
Healing Resources (mostly plant wisdom & many North Carolina based)
- North Carolina Native Ethnobotany Project
- Suki Roth: www.herbhaven.com
- Frank Cook: www.plantsandhealers.com
- The People’s Medicine School with Amanda David of Rootwork Herbals
- Ancestral + Plantcestral Re-membrance, Layla F. Feghali: RiverRoseRemembrance.com
- Frances O’Halloran, LoveJoy Botanicals: http://lovejoybotanicals.com
- Marc Williams: www.botanyeveryday.com
- Janet Kent & Dave Meesters, Terra Sylva School of Herbal Medicine: http://www.medicinecountyherbs.com
- Henrietta Cummins, classes and medicinal herbs: edgeoftheworldfarm@gmail.com
- Lea Clayton, Green Heart Healing Arts
- Monica Ganguly, Cultivating Resistance Herbals: https://cultivatingresistanceherbals.com
- Sequoia Herbals, Lisa Fouladbash
- Lindsay Perry, Full Flower Herbs: https://www.etsy.com/shop/FullFlowerHerbs
- Ricky Bratz: Cazimi Healing
- Sumistreet, a neighborhood healing practice
- Abby Artemesia, herbalist and forager in Western NC
- Black Forager, Alexis Nicole’s brilliant and hilarious instagram account
- Mallory O’Donnell with inspiring foraging education on Instagram
- Luke Cannon, Astounding Earth: http://www.astoundingearth.com
- Corey Pine Shane, Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine: http://www.blueridgeschool.org
- Joe Hollis, Mountain Gardens: http://mountaingardensherbs.com
- Will Endres: https://sites.google.com/site/willswildherbs1/contact-wild-will
- Doug Elliot: www.dougelliot.com
- Dina Falconi edible and medicinal plant videos
- Juliet Blankenspoor: www.chestnutherbs.com
- Phyllis Light: www.appalachianherbalist.com
- No Taste Like Home
- Brandon Ruiz, community herbalist & urban farmer in Charlotte, ruizbrandon704@gmail.com
- Queering Herbalism: http://queerherbalism.blogspot.com
- Greene Deane: www.eattheweeds.com
- Janice Durand, Tree of Life Center: www.TreeofLifeCenterNC.com
- Jaya Ashmore, deep rest meditation and dharma teachings
- The Embodiment Institute
- Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body is Not an Apology
- Rev angel Kyodo williams
- Sanctuary in the City, free BIPOC-only yoga classes
- Michelle Johnson, yoga teacher, anti-racism trainer, amazing human
- Octavia Raheem, yoga teacher, author, mother, mentor
- Yoga with Avery, Iyengar lineage through an anti oppression framework that uplifts inner healing towards collective liberation
- Yoga books and classes with Jessamyn Stanley
- Liberation Healing Arts, Patty Adams offers yoga for queers and misfits and more
- The Nap Ministry, rest as a form of resistance and reparations
- John Breckenridge, (919) 742-2799, amazing counselor and ally in abundance
Sustainability, Justice & Community
- Chatham Organizing for Racial Equity
- Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation (2022 powwow is October 22nd and 23rd)
- North Carolina Poor People’s Campaign
- 7 Directions of Service, local Indigenous-led grassroots advocacy organization currently organizing to prevent the mountain valley fossil fuel project in our region
- Ribbons of Color The History of African Americans and People of Color Living Along the Eno River
- Organizing Against Racism
- Triangle SURJ (Showing Up For Racial Justice)
- Earthseed Land Coop: https://earthseedlandcoop.org
- Libelula Consulting, with the brilliant and miraculous Zulayka Santiago! 🙂
- Down Home NC
- Siembra NC
- Haw River Assembly
- NC Climate Justice Collective
- Rural Organizing and Resilience
- Rednecks for Black Lives
- Southern Crossroads
- Advance Carolina
- UNC American Indian Center
- Seeding Sovereignty
- Dismantling Racism Works
- Southerners on New Ground
- Grand Trees of Chatham
- Abundance North Carolina: https://abundancenc.org
- Southeast Permaculture Gathering: www.southeasternpermaculture.org
- Carolina Farm Stewardship Association: www.carolinafarmstewards.org
- NC Botanical Garden: http://ncbg.unc.edu/calendar/
- Triangle Land Conservancy: www.triangleland.org
- Joanna Macy: www.joannamacy.net
- For The Wild Podcast: http://forthewild.world
- Yes! Magazine: www.yesmagazine.org
Local Goodness (arts, food, services, education…)
- Joy of Movement: http://thejoyofmovementcm.com
- PaperHand Puppet Intervention: www.paperhand.org
- Clapping Hands Farm Camps: www.clappinghandsfarm.com
- Oakmoss Attic: http://www.oakmossattic.com
- Angelina’s Kitchen: www.angelinaskitchenonline.com
- Chatham Marketplace: www.chathammarketplace.coop
- Communities in Schools: https://cischatham.org
- Debbie Roos: www.ces.ncsu.edu/chatham/ag/SustAg/chathammills.html
- Chatham County Arts Council: www.chathamarts.org
- Cathy Holt: www.cathyholtyoga.com
Further Studies in Foraging, Herbal Healing, & Health-ful Eating (for your library + a few online resources)
- Samuel Thayer’s Nature’s Garden AND The Forager’s Harvest; Guides to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants AND Incredible Wild Edibles
- Dave Cook’s The New Piedmont Almanac
- Michelle E. Lee’s Working the Roots; Over 400 Years of Traditional African-American Healing
- African American Herbalism blog series by Marc Williams
- Arvis Locklear Boughman and Loretta O. Oxendine’s Herbal Remedies of the Lumbee Indians
- Black and Indigenous herbalists @folkhealers
- Mary Geniusz’s Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings
- Amazing list of herbal medicine books compiled by Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine
- Pascal Baudar empowering foraging posts (and def buy his books)
- John Kallas’ Edible Wild Plants; Wild Foods from Dirt to Plate
- Euell Gibbons’ Stalking the Healthful Herbs AND Stalking the Wild Asparagus
- Rosemary Gladstar’s Family Herbal; A Guide to Living Life with Energy, Health, and Vitality
- “Wildman” Steve Brill’s Identifying and Harvesting Edible and Medicinal Plants in Wild (and Not So Wild) Places
- Patricia Howell’s Medicinal Plants of the Southern Appalachians
- Gail Faith Edwards’ Opening our Wild Hearts to the Healing Herbs
- Richo Cech’s Making Plant Medicine
- James Green’s The Herbal Medicine Maker’s Handbook; A Home Manual
- Peterson Field Guides’ Eastern/Central Medicinal Plants and Herbs by Duke & Foster
- Julie Bruton-Seal & Matthew Seal’s Backyard Medicine; Harvest and Make Your Own Herbal Remedies
- Diane Onstad’s Whole Foods Companion; A Guide for Adventurous Cooks, Curious Shoppers, and Lovers of Natural Foods
- Tom Epel’s Botany in a Day