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Hello and welcome to for the wild.

I'm Iana Young. Today we are speaking with

Leila K. Fugali. How do we connect to the power in the land and the

stories and the resilience and the strength and the wisdom in our

land when we cannot even touch it. I have found that working with our ancestral plants is like a really powerful way that our bodies and spirits realign.

It activates the land in our bones because those lands are in our bones. that

real line that activates the land in our bones, and the Plant Custers help wake up that power,

that kinship, that love, those places of connection inside of us no matter where we are.

Lela K Fagali lives between her ancestral village in coastal Lebanon

and her diasporic home in California, where she was born and raised by her

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