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The Herbal Highway enhances the community’s knowledge of herbal medicine and alternative choices to standard medical practices for healing. In order to have balanced life, The Herbal Highway actively supports and promotes Indigenous land rights, protection of sacred sites and the sustainability of the Earth as integral parts of individual, community and global healing. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @theherbalhighway.
Hosted and produced by Karyn Sanders and Sarah Holmes. Additionally hosted by Emiliano Lemus and Renee Camila.
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Spring Cleanse with Tanya Henderson – March 12, 2024
Join Sarah Holmes and her guest, Tanya Henderson of Sacred Roots Wellness for a look at preparing for spring with a focus on spring cleanses. Tanya is an herbalist, holistic nutritionist as well as a yoga instructor. Find more info HapiRootsInc@gmail.com and @sacredrootswellness
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Black Herbalist Voices: Karen Rose – March 5, 2024
In the final episode of our Black Herbalist Voices series, host Renée Camila interviews Karen Rose about community care and the significance of apprenticeship. They explore the relational energetics of community care within the body, as expressed within our skin and in healing touch. Fund drive.
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Black Herbalist Voices: Michele Lee – February 27, 2024
Continuting our Black Herbalist Voices series, host Sarah Holmes interviews Michele E. Lee, author of Working the Roots: Over 400 Years of Traiditonal African-American Healing. Ms. Lee shares some of her process in writing this book; taking oral histories from elders, transcribing hours of recordings and writing a comprehensive herbal. She also shares some remedies as we discuss health and healing. The work this book embodies goes well beyond an mere herbal, it records and celebrate important Black history. Fund drive.
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Black Herbalist Voices: Earcine Evans – February 20, 2024
Kicking off our Black Herbalist Voices series, host Sarah Holmes interviews Earcine Evans, a fourth-generation herbalist and farmer in Pickens, Mississippi. Mrs. Evans grows food and herbs, creates a line of skin and hair products as well as teaches in her community and beyond. Fund drive hosted live by Emiliano Lemus.
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Medicinal Ecologies: Redwood Forest – February 13, 2024
Join host Emiliano Lemus and guest Violet Moon for a new Herbal Highway series in which we explore the natural medicines present in California ecosystems. This month, we visit the redwood forests, exploring what a healthy woodland ecosystem looks like, and which medicinal plants we may encounter there. Violet Moon is a clinical herbalist and native plant specialist based in Oakland, CA (unceded Lisjan Ohlone land).
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Warming Our Soul From The Islands – February 6, 2024
Join Renée Camila and her guest, Angela Basbas Angel, for a conversation about Ninunong Gamot, also known as Philippine Ancestral Medicine. Together they explore how story shapes our relationship with ancestral medicine and discuss plants that can support us within our collective context.
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