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Does mutual aid and collective liberation inform your vision of herbalism? Are you looking for ways to make herbal medicine more widely available for everyone’s health, joy, and pleasure? Or is it already at the heart of your herbal work, and you’re looking to share and connect? Join members of the Rose Core Collective to discuss their work growing, making and distributing free herbal medicine to communities at the frontlines of racial and socioeconomic justice. We'll share what we've learned since the group started in early 2020, exploring our experiences with relationship building, growing herbs, formulating, fundraising, and more. Take a peek inside our process of creating a collectively run apothecary and directing thousands of bottles of herbal medicine towards sites of resistance and regeneration. Come with questions, dreams, and your own stories of building and tapping into herbal mutual aid!
TheRose Core Collective is an herbal medic project in so-called Central Vermont working and living on unceded Abenaki land. We are herbalists and organizers who grow, formulate and distribute herbs in solidarity with local and national BIPOC frontline organizers, healers, and local houseless people. As a group currently comprised of white settlers who came together in the spring of 2020, we have focused our efforts on epicenters of uprisings for economic and racial justice including Minneapolis, Philly, and NYC, responding to requests through ongoing relationship with people in these communities as well as here in Vermont. We see our effort as one thread of mutual aid in the web of liberation work, in which we act as a conduit for plants to work their medicine and magic in the world. Reciprocal relationship with plants themselves, taking their needs and desires into account, is a core part of how we orient to this work. Queerness and a commitment to dismantling white-bodied supremacy inform and are central to our understanding of organizing and culture change.
This is a recorded class. Once you register, you can access the course content from your student dashboard. You'll be able to view the video replay and download slides and handouts for one year from registration date.