We've been wanting to compile a big resource for you to find and support BIPOC Plant People for so long. As we dive in, even though we're mainly focused on the US, it becomes a deep rabbit hole. And why wouldn't it; there are so many amazing folks doing incredible things with plants that many of us have never even heard of before. Our nonprofit work providing herbal and botanical education reparations includes this work. "Plant People" encompasses so much: botanists, herbalists, farmers, product makers, teachers, authors, organization leaders, and more. Several folks (as many of us in the US) have ancestry from multiple regions, so we chose one. Though locations are listed for some, many have virtual offerings available across the world. Our hope is that we can try to heal some of the effects of oppression due to colonization, including the herbal and other plant knowledge that has been stolen and appropriated. You can help this mission by:
This is a huge task, which is why we haven't done it until now. So please know that this will be an ongoing and ever-evolving project.
NATIVE NORTH AMERICAN PLANT PEOPLE Bigwitch Indian Wisdom Initiative - Cherokee, NC - Traditional Food Pop-ups, Education, Herbal & Food Products Linda Black Elk - Educator, Herbalist, Ethnobotanist, Food Sovereignty Activist, Land Back work with Makoce Ikikcupi Dakota Land Recovery organization Cindi Quay - Cindi's Sacred Garden - Black Mountain, NC - Herbal Products, Herbal Education Mon Iker - Clinical Herbalist - Virtual Herbal Consultations (specializing in Trauma-Informed Care, Chronic Illness, Toxic Exposure) Lisa Bedner - Pipsissewa Herbs Greenhouse & Gardens- Bloomington Springs, TN - Education, Herbal Products, Books, Plants Susan Anderson - Native Naturals - Lamont, FL - Farm, Articles, Books, Education BLACK PLANT PEOPLE Quinnie Cook - Quinnie's Kitchen - Marietta, GA - Herbalist, Vegan Chef, Education, Spa Events, Forest Bathing Derek Haynes - The Chocolate Botanist - Botanical Education & Science Leah Penniman - Soul Fire Farm - Petersburg, NY - Farming Education, Land Liberation, Activism, Farming While Black book Lucretia Van Dyke - African American Herbalism book, readings, doula services Cheryl's Herbs - St. Louis, MO - in-store and online herbal products Alexis Nikole - The Black Forager - Foraging Education Ayo Ngozi - The Creative Root - Herbalist William Padilla-Brown - Mycosymbiotics -PA Asia Dorsey - Herbalist, Educator - Bone, Bugs, & Botany - CO Justin Robinson - Country Gentleman Cooks - Scientist, Ethnobotany - SC ASIAN PLANT PEOPLE Herb Folk Shop - Asian American Herbalism and Tea Jiling Lin -Acupuncturist & Herbalist - Ventura, CA Ava Chin - Eating Wildly Book LATINX/HISPANIC PLANT PEOPLE Brandon Ruiz - The Charolotte Herbal Accessibility Project - Charlotte, NC Patrisia Gonzales - Traditional Indian Medicine: American Indian Wellness Mimi Prunella Hernanadez - Herbalist - National Geographic Herbal - NC The Botanical Bus: Botanical Mobile Herb Clinic - CA Compton Health Bar - Compton, CA Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz - Kitchen Curandera - Phoenix, CA - Earth Medicines Book RESOURCES FOR LEARNING Woke Without the Work - This virtual workshop is for non-BIPOC herbalists who are wanting to incorporate anti-racist work in their practices. African American Herbalism: A Blog Series by Marc Williams, Ethnobiologist The Gullah Geechee Herbal Gathering - an annual BIPOC conference on Johns Island, SC Decolonizing Medicine: Ancestral Teachings Brought to the Forefront in Downtown Long Beach by Erin Foley Decolonizing Alternative Medicine: The Herbalism and Ecology of the African Diaspora by Priscilla Ward Decolonizing Alternative Medicine: Healing Communities with Indigenous Wisdom by Crystal Hoshaw We are the Sum of Our Ancestors: Decolonizing Herbalism by Toi Scott Water-Womb-Land Cosmologic: Protocols for Traditional Ecological Knowledge by Patrisia Gonzales Working the Roots: Over 400 years of Traditional African American Healing by Michelle E. Lee A Healing Grove: African Tree Remedies and Rituals for Body and Spirit by Stephanie Rose Bird Folk Wisdom and Mother Wit: John Lee—An African American Herbal Healer by Arvilla Payne-Jackson and John Lee The Man Who Talks with the Flowers: The Intimate Life Story of Dr. George Washington Carver by Glen Clark Soul Food Genius - "A 6-Week Virutal Course catering to the African Diaspora by centering our culinary, nutritional, and spiritual innovations" by Asia Dorsey & Justin Robinson
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