Grassroots Herbalism: Mutual Aid, Community Care, and Plant Medicine with Ashley Elenbaas
About this episode
The episode discusses grassroots herbalism and community care through mutual aid efforts in Minneapolis with Ashley Elenbaas.
What does herbalism look like when your community actually needs you? In this episode I sit down with clinical herbalist Ashley Elenbaas of Sky House Herbs, who has been doing boots-on-the-ground mutual aid work in Minneapolis. We talk about how she organized local herbalists, partnered with existing mutual aid networks, and got herbal care kits into the hands of homebound immigrant families. And how she did it without burning herself out in the process. This is community herbalism in action....
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