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🗓️ 22 November 2022
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BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 145: Ethnobotanist Dr. Susan Leopold
Dr. Susan Leopold is an ethnobotanist who spent the early years of her career in the jungles of the Peruvian Amazon and Central America. An epiphany led her home, to Virginia and to the American heartland of the Ohio River, to study native plants, medicinal herbs and the natural and human history of this wild, diverse and beleaguered corner of our world. Leopold is the executive director of the United Plant Savers, a group dedicated to protecting imperiled native plants like ginseng and goldenseal – and to establishing new and sustainable economies where these and other plants can bolster rural economies and make peoples’ lives healthier and more prosperous. Come with us to meet and learn from a leader in herbalism, native plant restoration, forest farming, and, maybe, a new way of living in the heartland: one that draws its strength from the land itself.
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0:00.0 | And really these characters in the eclectic herbalist movement were going back to this idea of, you know, bridge makers, right? |
0:12.0 | They had these relationships with indigenous people they learned and they had a |
0:16.4 | reciprocal relationship and and they kind of carried over that |
0:31.8 | herbal tradition that really is the foundation of American herbalism. Not only coming home and studying botany, learning about the medicinal plants of Appalachia, |
0:39.6 | being blown away by this history that I didn't fully comprehend or understand and then having |
0:47.8 | this connection of being part of this Padawamec tribe of Virginia and you know reclaiming this heritage that had really |
0:58.5 | been suppressed for 400 years. |
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