Oak Justice with Death Worker and Ritualist Lauren Roellig Herb At The End Of The World

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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