The Plant Path, Your Window into the World of Urban Medicine, with Saja Popham, founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism and Organic Unique.

Hey, what's up, everybody? founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism and Organic Union.

Hey, what's up everybody, Sagea Popham here, founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism. And I'm standing in the middle of my house right now, which is going under a seriously huge remodel and you know there was kind of some things that

came up in this process of working on my house that some lessons learned that I felt like we're

really interesting metaphors for different ways that we can approach practicing herbal medicine. So a little backstory.

We bought this old farmhouse out here in the mountains in northwest Washington. And everything

on the surface seemed pretty good. There was a couple things that we wanted to do to make it a little bit nicer on this house,

and something ended up happening where we started digging in to, you know,

what's behind the walls a little bit and found all sorts of really unexpected surprises.

One of the big ones of which was when we pulled all the drywall out in the upstairs space, it turns out our entire roof was bowing in. And as we dug in a little

bit deeper, it turned out that one of the previous owners of

this home had actually cut all of the roof trusses, all of the structural lumber that basically

holds the whole roof up, was cut and thereby compromised the whole structural integrity of the roof of the house.

And so here I am standing up here right now.

We've been living under a tarp for the last number of months.

And I thought there was some really interesting patterns that it made me think about in terms of kind of this

metaphor of home repair and home remodel and our approaches to herbalism and I was thinking about

like why would someone do that why would someone cut these roof tresses, you know, maybe there was a problem with the

house or maybe there was something that they wanted to do to it? And that seemed like a quick

and easy solution to the problem, but ended up over the years creating a much bigger problem

in the long term that now I have the joy of fixing, right?

And how that's a really amazing example of what I like to refer to as allopathic herbalism,

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