28 episodes

A storytelling podcast about herb lore, healing and liberation. Each episode we go deep with the healing stories and lore of one medicinal plant.

Herb At The End Of The World Samwise Raridon

    • Health & Fitness
    • 4.4 • 7 Ratings

A storytelling podcast about herb lore, healing and liberation. Each episode we go deep with the healing stories and lore of one medicinal plant.

    A Love Letter to Lavender

    A Love Letter to Lavender

    Join Samwise Raridon Community Herbalist and Meditation Practitioner and Therapist Liz Fitzgerald for a sweet and reverent chat on Lavender, queerness and joy.



    If you want to learn more about Liz and their work, you can find them at https://www.therapistliz.com/



    Herb at the End of the World will be taking a hiatus while Samwise adjusts to some big life changes.



    Here's some links to the articles mentioned in the episode:



    From Lavender to Violet: The Lesbian Obsession with Purple by Eleanor Medhurst

    https://dressingdykes.com/2021/08/20/from-lavender-to-violet/



    Violet Delights: A Queer History of Purple by Keava McMillan

    https://www.vam.ac.uk/dundee/articles/violet-delights-a-queer-history-of-purple



    Lavender Menace

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavender_Menace



    The song that appears at the end of the episode is called "The Lavender Song", based on "Das Lila Lied" (Berlin, 1921; a gay/lesbian liberation song) and can be found on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yPakNOVytI



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    Herb at the End of the World is created by Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, teacher and organizer of germanic, celtic and Lebanese lineages living as a guest in unceded Shawnee, Osage, Ofo and Mesopelea (otherwise known as Adena and Hopewell) land, colonially known as Athens, Ohio.

    This podcast will always be offered freely. If you’re inspired by this work and want to support others in accessing healing and learning, please consider joining us as a patron on Patreon. If you are inspired by this work please leave us a five star review wherever you listen to podcasts so more people can find out about these resources! 

    Have you seen this awesome video of our clinical work? Big big thanks to Em Harger for producing this magical short film. 

    IG: @selfhealherbs

    FB: https://www.facebook.com/self.heal.herbal.clinic

    Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/samwiseraridoncommunityherbalist?fan_landing=true

    Sam’s Website: https://www.selfhealherbs.com/ 

    • 1 hr 23 min
    Summer Update

    Summer Update

    Just a little announcement about taking a break over the summer to heal up and work camp!



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    Herb at the End of the World is created by Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, teacher and organizer of germanic, celtic and Lebanese lineages living as a guest in unceded Shawnee, Osage, Ofo and Mesopelea (otherwise known as Adena and Hopewell) land, colonially known as Athens, Ohio.

    This podcast will always be offered freely. If you’re inspired by this work and want to support others in accessing healing and learning, please consider joining us as a patron on Patreon. If you are inspired by this work please leave us a five star review wherever you listen to podcasts so more people can find out about these resources! 

    Have you seen this awesome video of our clinical work? Big big thanks to Em Harger for producing this magical short film. 

    IG: @selfhealherbs

    FB: https://www.facebook.com/self.heal.herbal.clinic

    Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/samwiseraridoncommunityherbalist?fan_landing=true

    Sam’s Website: https://www.selfhealherbs.com/ 

    • 4 min
    Burdock and Mental Health

    Burdock and Mental Health

    Join Samwise Raridon Community Herbalist and their partner Seed Minkin Youth Educator and Artist for a sweet and powerful conversation about herbs for mental health support, including Burdock. Thank you so much Seed for sharing your beauty and wisdom.

    Content Warning: In this episode we touch on themes of mental health, working with Bipolar, and acknowledge feelings of wanting to give up. If you are feeling like you want to give up and need support, please reach out for help. Please check out the resources below:

    Trans Lifeline: 877 565 8860

    Suicide and Crisis Hotline: 988 (it's just those three numbers)

    Warm Line Directory By State (for those that just need someone to talk to): https://warmline.org/warmdir.html



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    Herb at the End of the World is created by Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, teacher and organizer of germanic, celtic and Lebanese lineages living as a guest in unceded Shawnee, Osage, Ofo and Mesopelea (otherwise known as Adena and Hopewell) land, colonially known as Athens, Ohio.

    This podcast will always be offered freely. If you’re inspired by this work and want to support others in accessing healing and learning, please consider joining us as a patron on Patreon. If you are inspired by this work please leave us a five star review wherever you listen to podcasts so more people can find out about these resources! 

    Have you seen this awesome video of our clinical work? Big big thanks to Em Harger for producing this magical short film. 

    IG: @selfhealherbs

    FB: https://www.facebook.com/self.heal.herbal.clinic

    Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/samwiseraridoncommunityherbalist?fan_landing=true

    Sam’s Website: https://www.selfhealherbs.com/ 

    • 31 min
    Oak Justice with Death Worker and Ritualist Lauren Roellig

    Oak Justice with Death Worker and Ritualist Lauren Roellig

    Join Community Herbalist Samwise Raridon and Clinical Herbalist, Death Doula and Ritualist Lauren Roellig for a deep dive into an important tree across many cultures, the Oak Tree. Lauren shares about her experience deepening her relationship to Oak through recognizing Sudden Oak Death and helping to heal the trees in her region. Together we reflect on themes like how vital real justice is for healing our world and the trees that sustain it.



    You can find out more about Lauren's work and book a session to work with her individually and collectively at https://www.laurenroellig.com/



    The Disability Justice book we mention in the episode is called The Future is Disabled by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha



    Here are some of the organizations and projects we mention in the episode:



    Keepers of the Flame Project (actually UC Davis, not UC Berkeley):

    https://epm.ucdavis.edu/sites/g/files/dgvnsk296/files/inline-files/Keepers%20of%20the%20Flame%20Final5.12.2020.pdf



    TREKS prescribed fire training exchanges

    https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-priorities/protect-water-and-land/land-and-water-stories/fire-training-exchanges-expand-controlled-burns/

    Karuk Tribe Cultural Burns and Climate Change Project

    https://karuktribeclimatechangeprojects.com/fire-works/



    Donating to the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust

    https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/



    Indian canyon is the only federally recognized native lands from Sonoma to the coast of Santa Barbara in California.[1] The land hosts many ceremonies and oak tending workshops - recently they had a major flooding with the storms - and there’s a gofundme for donations.

    http://support.indiancanyonlife.org/?fbclid=IwAR3rSJBluVoqVYSfgJ_-nYfb41U8-YCl2XM6nX8JhDktZxd7GuR02Qkes90

    Social Forestry and Siskiyou Permaculture, Hazel Ward - theyve just put out a book called Tending the Land as People of Place

    https://siskiyoupermaculture.org/about-us/

    Go wild institute Jolie Egret Elan

    https://www.gowildinstitute.org/

    SuddenOakLife.org - fire mimicry



    The painting in the cover art for this episode is the painting that Samwise mentions in the show, and is called "Saint Boniface Felling the Sacred Oak" by Christian Wilhelm Ernst Diedrich (created about 1750 - 1770)



    Music Credit: "Change" by Big Thief, a song I have been listening to on repeat these days



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    Herb at the End of the World is created by Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, teacher and organizer of germanic, celtic and Lebanese lineages living as a guest in unceded Shawnee, Osage, Ofo and Mesopelea (otherwise known as Adena and Hopewell) land, colonially known as Athens, Ohio.

    This podcast will always be offered freely. If you’re inspired by this work and want to support others in accessing healing and learning, please consider joining us as a patron on Patreon. If you are inspired by this work please leave us a five star review wherever you listen to podcasts so more people can find out about these resources! 

    Have you seen this awesome video of our clinical work? Big big thanks to Em Harger for producing this magical short film. 

    IG: @selfhealherbs

    FB: https://www.facebook.com/self.heal.herbal.clinic

    Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/samwiseraridoncommunityherbalist?fan_landing=true

    Sam’s Website: https://www.selfhealherbs.com/ 

    • 1 hr 21 min
    The Elder Tree and Mother Holda, Goddess of Death

    The Elder Tree and Mother Holda, Goddess of Death

    Join Samwise for a tender and potent telling of their relationship to the elder tree and the elder's connections to death and rebirth. The elder tree is strongly connected to the winter deity Holda / Holle in some germanic lineages. Winter, the epiphany, January 6th, divination, grief, loss and cycles of regeneration are big themes throughout this episode. 

    Content warning: this episode talks in depth about losing friends to murder, although no graphic details are shared. 

    Much love and gratitude to the friends and family who also carry this grief and the gift of knowing Emilie and Dusty. 

    Here's the video of Emilie singing "Trust". Thank you to Paul Stoutenburgh and Minea Herwitz for producing this beautiful video.

    Here's the book on Holda that Sam mentions in the episode.  Turns out it's out of print, so let me know if you're curious about it! 

    Art credit in Episode Cover Art: Alphonse Mucha, "Winter" 1896

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    Herb at the End of the World is created by Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, teacher and organizer of germanic, celtic and Lebanese lineages living as a guest in unceded Shawnee, Osage, Ofo and Mesopelea (otherwise known as Adena and Hopewell) land, colonially known as Athens, Ohio.

    This podcast will always be offered freely. If you’re inspired by this work and want to support others in accessing healing and learning, please consider joining us as a patron on Patreon. If you are inspired by this work please leave us a five star review wherever you listen to podcasts so more people can find out about these resources!

    Have you seen this awesome video of our clinical work? Big big thanks to Em Harger for producing this magical short film.

    IG: @selfhealherbs

    FB: https://www.facebook.com/self.heal.herbal.clinic

    Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/samwiseraridoncommunityherbalist?fan_landing=true

    Sam’s Website: https://www.selfhealherbs.com/

    • 1 hr 9 min
    Remembering This Medicine with Cera Merrick, Abortion Doula and Fertility Awareness Educator

    Remembering This Medicine with Cera Merrick, Abortion Doula and Fertility Awareness Educator

    Join host Samwise Raridon, Community Herbalist and Cera Merrick, Abortion Doula and Fertility Awareness Educator for a generous and in depth discussion on herbs, ancestral medicine, abortion and how abortion doulas can support folks moving through abortions. In this episode Cera shares about their practice of supporting folks as an abortion doula and turns us towards our own lineages' cycle regulation medicines. 

    You can find out more about Cera's work, including booking an exploratory session at their website here. You can follow them on Instagram @ceramerrick



    Here are some of the resources we talk about in this episode:

    Natural Liberty: Rediscovering Self Induced Abortion Methods by the Sage Femme Collective (PDF of whole book) 

    Holistic Abortions: Herbalists and abortion doulas offering inclusive, comprehensive repro knowledge & empowering ppl w/ plant wisdom and body literacy
    Venmo @HolisticAbx Instagram @holistic.abortions (Offers classes on holistic abortion support) 

    Abortion Showers: a woman, femme, nonbinary people of color-led project. Abortion Showers challenged bodily autonomy narratives by providing a digital space for emotional and technical support and political education resources for people who have and support abortion care post-Roe v. Wade. (Fundraiser!) 

    The Nap Ministry: founded by Tricia Hersey and is an organization that examines the liberating power of naps.

    Digital Defense Fund: established in 2017 in response to the increased need for security and technology resources in the abortion rights movement after the 2016 election. 



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    Herb at the End of the World is created by Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, teacher and organizer of germanic, celtic and Lebanese lineages living as a guest in unceded Shawnee, Osage, Ofo and Mesopelea (otherwise known as Adena and Hopewell) land, colonially known as Athens, Ohio.

    This podcast will always be offered freely. If you’re inspired by this work and want to support others in accessing healing and learning, please consider joining us as a patron on Patreon. If you are inspired by this work please leave us a five star review wherever you listen to podcasts so more people can find out about these resources!

    Have you seen this awesome video of our clinical work? Big big thanks to Em Harger for producing this magical short film.

    IG: @selfhealherbs

    FB: https://www.facebook.com/self.heal.herbal.clinic

    Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/samwiseraridoncommunityherbalist?fan_landing=true

    Sam’s Website: https://www.selfhealherbs.com/

    • 1 hr 2 min

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