HWB Herbal Action Podcast

HWB Herbal Action Podcast

Herbalists Without Borders Herbal Action Podcast features speakers and topics on free people's clinics, trauma training, community gardens, social and health justice, plants, community herbalism, Chapters and Members, disaster relief and more. Herbalists Without Borders is a 501c3 nonprofit local to global network of volunteers devoted to providing compassionate care to communities and countries in need impacted by natural disasters, violent conflicts, poverty, trauma and other access barriers to health and wellness. HWB has more than 50 chapters around the globe.

Episodes

Kristine Brown, of Herbal Roots Zine

April 1, 2020 • 21 mins
Kristine Brown is a registered herbalist with the American Herbalists Guild, herbal educator, writer, and artist from the St. Louis area. She is the mastermind behind Herbal Roots zine, a beautiful magazine that has been exposing kids to the wonders of plants and herbs, and she is the author of the new book Herbalism at Home. We talk about the next generation of herbalists, and bringing herbal and nature education into your home an...
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Herbal Action Podcast: Nicole Rose, Solidarity Apothecary

October 29, 2019 • 26 mins
Nicole Rose is an organiser, grassroots herbalist and agroecologist living in England who has been active in struggles for human, animal and earth liberation for over 20 years. Nicole did a 3.5-year prison sentence aged 21 amidst a decade of state repression against the campaign to close down Europe’s largest animal testing company. She’s been supporting loved ones in prison for over 15 years and recently founded the Solidarity Apo...
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Finn, Grassroots Public Health

October 2, 2019 • 26 mins
Many HWB Chapters organize People’s Clinics. People’s Clinics are free or sliding scale holistic health clinics that can take many forms - popup clinic at a table in a community room or local health food store, mobile clinic via bike, van, bus, cart. A monthly repeat clinic at a specific location. A disaster relief clinic after a hurricane, forest fire, flood, or catastrophic event. We may want to reach the homeless community, vete...
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Episode 6: Leah Wolfe, Radical Herbalism

December 17, 2018 • 35 mins
Herbalists Without Borders chats with Leah Wolf about Radical Herbalism. For Leah, radical herbalism is a combination of roots, restoration, resistance, and resilience. She integrates these four concepts into a four element system of herbalism to help her students understand how to go deeper in understanding health and wellness issues..http://herbalistswithoutborders.weebly.com/herbal-action-podcast.html
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Episode 5: Leslie Alexander on Dental Herbalism

November 15, 2018 • 23 mins
This episode Denise Cusack of Herbalists Without Borders interviews Leslie Alexander. Leslie Alexander is a professional herbalist  and owner of Restoration Herbs in Erie, PA. Leslie is Registered Herbalist with the American Herbalists Guild, and is serving her third term on the AHG Council. Leslie is author of the book Dental Herbalism: Natural Therapies for the Mouth, and teaches on this topic throughout the US.  She also works w...
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Episode 4: Ola Obasi, Puerto Rico Recovery and Volunteerism.

September 25, 2018 • 36 mins
HWB Executive Director Denise Cusack speaks with Ola Obasi of Well of Indigenous Wisdom School and HWB Puerto Rico. They discuss ongoing relief and recovery from hurricane Maria, honoring indigenous wisdom, respecting local customs and culture in our work, decolonizing volunteerism and herbalism, community building, and herbs as a spiritual practice. Find out more about Ola's classes, her work, Omaroti, HWB Puerto Rico, and more: ​...
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Herbal Action Podcast, From HWB. Episode 3.

August 31, 2018 • 21 mins
Gigi Stafne has been a practitioner of natural and botanical medicine for 33 years. She created the first natural medicine clinic, bringing on a team of 12 skilled practitioners. Gigi is founder and director of the Green Wisdom School of Botanical Medicine in the upper Midwest. Gigi served as the previous ED of HWB for over a decade, and is currently chapter coordinator for HWB, offering HWB free peoples clinics.
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Episode 3: Gigi Stafne, Free People's Clinics

August 31, 2018 • 20 mins
Gigi Stafne has been a practitioner of natural and botanical medicine for 33 years. She created the first natural medicine clinic, bringing on a team of 12 skilled practitioners. Gigi is founder and director of the Green Wisdom School of Botanical Medicine in the upper Midwest. Gigi served as the previous ED of HWB for over a decade, and is currently chapter coordinator for HWB, offering HWB free peoples clinics.
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Herbal Action Podcast, From HWB. Episode 2.

August 8, 2018 • 25 mins
HWB interviews Karen Henderson, organizer and founder of the Veterans Resiliency Holistic Clinic in Richmond, VA. Karen hosts a monthly clinic for veterans and their families, providing almost a dozen holistic health modalities. This clinic is a donation only clinic and no one is turned away due to inability to pay. Find out more about her inspiring work and this low/no cost community clinic model.

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Episode 2: Karen Henderson, VRHC

August 8, 2018 • 25 mins
HWB interviews Karen Henderson, organizer and founder of the Veterans Resiliency Holistic Clinic in Richmond, VA. Karen hosts a monthly clinic for veterans and their families, providing almost a dozen holistic health modalities. This clinic is a donation only clinic and no one is turned away due to inability to pay. Find out more about her inspiring work and this low/no cost community clinic model.
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