Truly Ethical Wildcrafting: Creating Reciprocity and Relationship with Wild Plants and Places featuring Rosalee de la Foret
The Plant Path: Herbalism, Medical Astrology & Spagyric Alchemy
Sajah Popham
4.8 • 570 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2021
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
On this week's episode of The Plant Path, Whitney is joined by herbalist Rosalee de la Forêt. They have a discussion around wildcrafting practices; how to build relationships with the plants that grow around you by learning how to honorably harvest, tend, and care for land in your bioregion; how to work with the wild plants around you for food, medicine, and healing; and much more.
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ABOUT SAJAH
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Sajah Popham is the author of Evolutionary Herbalism and the founder of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism, where he trains herbalists in a holistic system of plant medicine that encompasses clinical western herbalism, medical astrology, Ayurveda, and spagyric alchemy. His mission is to develop a comprehensive approach that balances the science and spirituality of plant medicine, focusing on using plants to heal and rejuvenate the body, clarify the mind, open the heart, and support the development of the soul. Sajah's approach honors and acknowledges the chemical, energetic, and spiritual properties of plants for a holistic model that uses the whole herb to heal the whole person. He lives on a homestead in the foothills of Mt. Baker Washington with his wife Whitney where he teaches, consults clients, and prepares spagyric herbal medicines.
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ABOUT THE PLANT PATH
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The Plant Path provides unique perspectives for the modern practitioner of herbalism that doesn't just want to "fix what's broken" in the body, but seeks to serve others with deeper levels of healing and transformation with herbal medicines.
A unique synergy of clinical herbalism, alchemy, medical astrology, and herbal traditions from around the world, The Plant Path focuses on giving you a truly "wholistic" perspective on herbal medicine so you never fall into the trap of allopathic herbalism.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the plant path, your window into the world of herbal medicine, with Saja and Whitney Popham, founders of the School of Evolutionary Herbalism. |
| 0:23.6 | The Welcome to the plant path. I'm Whitney Popham. And in this episode, I'm honored to be joined by herbalist Rosalie de la Fure. |
| 0:56.1 | In this episode, we have discussion around wild crafting practices and how to build relationship |
| 1:01.6 | with the plants that grow around you by learning how to honorably harvest, tend, and care |
| 1:07.8 | for land in your bioregion and how to work with the wild plants around you for food and medicine and for healing. |
| 1:16.6 | I'm excited to have Rosalie here as a guest because she is just incredibly passionate about inspiring people to enjoy plants every single day, |
| 1:24.6 | whether it's marveling in their beauty or using their gifts as food and medicine. |
| 1:29.3 | And she makes herbal medicine so easy and accessible to all kinds of people. |
| 1:35.3 | So Rosalie de la Frey is the author of the best selling books, Alchemy of Herbs, |
| 1:40.3 | transforming everyday ingredients into food and remedies that heal. |
| 1:43.3 | And she's also the co-author of Wild Remedies, How to Forage Healing Foods and Craft Your Own |
| 1:49.8 | Irval Medicine, which she wrote with Emily Hahn. |
| 1:53.7 | Rosalie is a registered herbalist with the American Herbalist Guild and was an herbal clinician |
| 1:58.0 | for six years before dedicating her offerings to herbal education. |
| 2:01.6 | In addition to writing books, she teaches many online herbal courses about herbalism and medicine making. |
| 2:06.6 | Rosalie lives Hi Rosalie. Thanks for coming back on the show with us. I'm so excited to be here, |
| 2:42.4 | and I'm especially excited to be talking with you, Whitney. I know. Yeah. It's been a while |
| 2:48.3 | since I've gotten to see you, so I'm excited to get to connect again. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think IHS was the last time I saw you. Yeah. And it wasn't even last IHS. I think it was like before that even. So. Uh-huh. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I've been really excited about just everything you're doing. I'm always amazed at how you're |
| 3:09.3 | continually contributing really quality resources to the herbal community and just want to acknowledge |
| 3:15.1 | all of the work you contribute. And I've been particularly excited lately. I've just got your |
| 3:20.8 | newest book, your second book, Wild Remedies, and I've been reading it and just |
| 3:26.2 | devouring all the little, there's so many, I've already got a highlighter in there with little |
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