Ep 61 - Italian Folk Healing with Lisa Fazio

Ep 61 - Italian Folk Healing with Lisa Fazio

From Tending Seeds: Adventures in Gardening, Homesteading, and Herbalism by Sara Neil

February 28, 2025 · 49 min · Season 1 · Episode 61

About this episode

Sara Neil interviews Lisa Fazio about Italian folk healing and ancestral connections.

Hi, friends! We've been working hard this month getting back into the swing of things. We spent four days vending at various markets this month and March and April are slated to be busy as well. We also had the official grand opening of our farm store in Hotchkiss and it's been so amazing to connect with people in person when they come in to browse our teas and other herbal products! We're getting ready to jump on our next project, which is getting the greenhouse built next month! We're also getting some seeds going indoors in the meantime, and then they'll move out to the greenhouse which we hope to have done by mid-April at the latest. This will let us get a HUGE jump on the growing season, as we can't really put many plants outside until the end of May. And as we wait for spring to arrive, I'm having fun editing some of the great interviews I've had time to record these last couple months, including today's wonderful convo with Lisa Fazio. Lisa is an Irish/Italian American folklore witch, herbalist, and astrologer, as well as the mother of 4 children and Nonna to 2 grandchildren. Her principal training is in Traditional Western Herbalism, Western Astrology, and the folk ways…

People in this episode

Host: Sara Neil

Guest: Lisa Fazio

Topics covered

  • Italian folk healing
  • herbalism
  • ancestral connection
  • psychology
  • ethnobotany

Keywords

  • Italian folk healing
  • herbalism
  • ancestral revival
  • psychology
  • ethnobotany

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Traditional Western Herbalism, Western Astrology

Places: Hotchkiss

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