tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81073095312392688752024-03-21T20:40:20.674-04:00Dandelioness Herbalsrecipes, reflections, and resources for self-care and community-caredana l woodruffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862957097090009968noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8107309531239268875.post-12643209377930471972020-09-18T20:45:00.009-04:002023-01-15T17:30:25.395-05:00There was a place where Blue Vervain grew...<p><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8n7tAcTCbrs/X2VU6PeQ0xI/AAAAAAAADDA/4Zo9_iNlBCMSSX8rN2wQiozXfAd5E4E2gCLcBGAsYHQ/s894/blue%2Bvervain.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="894" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8n7tAcTCbrs/X2VU6PeQ0xI/AAAAAAAADDA/4Zo9_iNlBCMSSX8rN2wQiozXfAd5E4E2gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/blue%2Bvervain.jpg" /></a><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0epQh-DyAmI/X2VU5z0IrNI/AAAAAAAADC8/4ib1_FDChRYVru5EjQVCduTpOk8L2VhcgCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/blue%2Bvervain2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="628" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0epQh-DyAmI/X2VU5z0IrNI/AAAAAAAADC8/4ib1_FDChRYVru5EjQVCduTpOk8L2VhcgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/blue%2Bvervain2.jpg" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Image description: photo 1 – Blue vervain that’s been growing all season in a po</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">t, sitting on the pebbled shore beside a body of water. The blue vervain leaves are bright green and yellow-green, with a purple-red stem. Photo 2 – Close up of the blue vervain once it’s been planted in its new home.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">There was a place where Blue Vervain grew, not far from the water and near its friends Goldenrod and Joe Pye weed. I harvested some there, taking only a bit to make remedies for myself and to share with others. I gathered some leaves and the top part of the flowers, leaving a lot of flowers further down on the plant for the pollinators to feed from and so that the plant would go to seed for future generations. Maybe others did the same, gathered just a bit. Maybe they harvested the whole flowering tops so that there were none left for the insects and birds. In the years since, as I’ve visited that place I look for those plants, the deep purple-blue flowers growing up tall stalks – not to harvest, just to see them. But I stopped seeing them. They seemed to be gone. So I started planting the seeds that a friend had gathered. I cold stratified them – pressing the seeds into tiny pots of soil that I misted with water and then covered with plastic and stored in the fridge, simulating winter. Some seeds I planted only need a couple weeks in the fridge, others require 90 days. The Blue Vervain popped up soon after I removed the little pots from the fridge and there were so many that I could share them with friends as well. They didn’t grow a lot last season, but in the autumn my friend and I tucked the seedlings in the ground all over the garden - at the far ends of many beds to grow near the Goldenrod and Elder and other plants growing on-the-edge. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">In the spring I looked for them and didn’t see any Blue Vervain emerging. Maybe they were too small still when we planted them? Maybe they’d needed some protection in the winter that I hadn’t provided? So I cold stratified more seeds for this season. As I waited for the seeds in the fridge, I saw some popping back up in the garden, and then my friend saw some more and then each time I’d go to the garden I would see more and more until I’m pretty sure every single one we’d planted had returned! The garden was rich in Blue Vervain! Beautiful and full of medicine, I harvested some on Lughnasadh and also the following full moon to tincture fresh to ease tension held in the muscles and mind and leading up to menstruation and also some to dry for the altar and to burn. Once again this next year the seeds I’d stratified popped up and since there was already an abundance of Blue Vervain in the garden now, the seedlings could ALL be shared with more friends to plant in more gardens! And now many friends have this gorgeous plant growing in the garden - to harvest for medicine and for the pollinators and to replenish what had been taken. And I brought a plant back to that place where I had one harvested, once taken, and perhaps had contributed to its disappearance. I brought the plant back to that place, walked around til I found the spot that it seemed to want to be, planted it and gave it water. I returned to that spot recently and despite the dry season and being a bit chomped up by wee bugs, the plants was vibrant and full of life. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">One of the problem with wildcrafting, with harvesting herbs that we do not tend, is that it is easy to *not* see the impact of our actions. We can treat the land like an equation – oh, I only take 10%, a quarter, a half….pretending like we are exceptional, harvesting the “right” way, taking the “right” amount, and that we are the only humans that might visit that place to harvest and that only humans need those plants, rely on those plants, have relationship with that plant. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Especially if you are traveling or staying in an area for only a few year cycles or less, you may not realize that a plant is beginning to disappear from a place it once grew. Perhaps it is a slow-growing at-risk woodland plant, or maybe a more common plant that wasn’t able to go to seed because people gathered the flowering tops. If we aren’t even aware of the harm we cause, how can we change our patterns? If we are raised in a white supremacist capitalist culture of taketaketake, seeing the land and plants as objects that belong to us for us to do as we wish, this fundamentally shapes our relationship to the land, the plants, and the remedies we make. When this kind of domination that seeps into all areas of our lives is not questioned, it comes thru how we speak about plants in our posts, articles, books, and classrooms. It’s particularly concerning that herbalists teach wildcrafting to students, sometimes traveling quite far together to go collect plants instead of cultivating herbs together and getting to truly know the plants and their cycles. Also those students then tell others and on and on until there are herbalists and friends-of-herbalists and friends-of-someone-who-took-a-class-with-that-herbalist swooping into areas and depleting herbs from the woods, deserts, mountains, shoreline, and fields. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I have been in such programs and I wish I had spoken up more at the time about how awful it felt to harvest plants I didn’t know from a place that I didn’t know (for an herbalist I was studying with to then sell to someone who claimed to sell ‘ethically wildcrafted’ herbs). It felt awful and no we weren’t clear-cutting, we weren’t taking every plant, but it still felt like too much. I first started learning about herbs in the garden with friends and family as a teen. The garden and plants and people in my life were my teachers. Yes, I was coming at it with a settler mindset because that is how I was raised, and also I listened to the plants. It was when I starting taking more classes and reading more herb books that this frantic energy entered – feeling like I was cramming for a test, learning about plants more like specimens and chemical constituents than their own autonomous beings. Even when I learned about them as magical beings, they were presented as *my* magical beings to harvest and do what I want with and profit from. When we don’t understand and dismantle the white supremacist capitalist colonial mentality we are steeped in growing up, our actions that we may think are rooted in connection and integrity are not. They may be a softer, greener version of those oppressive systems, but they are still very much those oppressive systems. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">I am so thankfull to the plants for teaching me so much all the time about relationship, growth, tending, consent, and myself. I am also so thankfull for the decentralized crew of herbalists all over the world who are deeply committed to transformation, unlearning, dismantling oppressive systems, having hard conversations, providing plant remedies to the community thru mutual aid and long-term projects, speaking up even and especially when the message is not appreciated, willing to have our worlds turned upside down to remember/re-envision a world of relationship, reciprocity, where we all have our needs met, where we repair the impacts of trauma on ourselves and our communities, where we can be present enough to understand the impact of our words and actions on the beings around us and strive to be in relationship in a good way. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9WPerp09M24/X2VVHTNtN_I/AAAAAAAADDE/4OnfDyrJYzIBVeqZjvroSrckXUI4s8jawCLcBGAsYHQ/s1440/blue%2Bvervain3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1072" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9WPerp09M24/X2VVHTNtN_I/AAAAAAAADDE/4OnfDyrJYzIBVeqZjvroSrckXUI4s8jawCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/blue%2Bvervain3.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">image description: the purple-blue flowers of blue vervain and its deep green </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">leaves, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">harvested from plants started from seed and tended in the garden, </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">floating </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">in brandy </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">in a clear wide-mouth ball jar on a wooden patio.</span></div><p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">2021 update: This season once again the Blue Vervain is thriving in the garden, and new babies are popping up in various beds, so the plants started from local seed can go to others who can plant them both where they've harvested them along the river, as well as in their home gardens.</span></div>dana l woodruffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862957097090009968noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8107309531239268875.post-91513457393601432402020-01-17T19:55:00.001-05:002020-01-17T20:15:22.363-05:00The Prisoner’s Herbal by Nicole Rose<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Focusing on common plants and do-it-yourself recipes, the thoughtful information shared in The Prisoner’s Herbal by Nicole Rose of <b><a href="https://solidarityapothecary.org/">Solidarity Apothecary</a></b> holds so much potential for cross-pollination within and beyond the barbed wire and prison walls that seek to divide us. Writing from personal experience of having been locked up and connecting with plants at many levels, Rose has documented the various ways people may be able to integrate “weeds” from the yard, as well as medicinal fruits, vegetables, and spices into their daily lives while on the inside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This book is important not only because is it full of information about familiar plants and simple yet powerful remedies made with them, it shares this info in a down-to-earth, accessible way and within the context of truth-telling about colonization and the impact of state violence. Rose writes about remedies for everyday ailments and health concerns such as high blood pressure, infections, and wounds, as well as the stress, trauma, and PTSD that so many experience, especially those living within the dehumanizing environment of prison.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I can see this book – with its beautiful cover of a gorgeous, vibrant dandelion in bloom against a grey concrete wall – and the valuable information contained within it rippling out through cellblocks, recipes shared in the cafeteria, plants recommended back and forth from either side of the tables in the visiting areas. As this book was written with so much care and thought as to what is accessible and possible within the extremely restricted experience of incarceration, it can be translated easily to the outside once folks are released, as it focuses on plants available in the spice section of grocery stores, the medicinal “weeds” thriving in parks and community gardens, and what’s available in convenience stores. The wealth of information held in this book can spread like dandelion seeds, back and forth through phone calls, letters, and visits between those on the inside and those on the outside, as well as through prison abolition organizations and books to prisoner projects.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Integrating herbal medicine such as food, teas, and compresses into our lives has been practiced world-wide since forever. This book makes vital information often withheld from those who are locked up available to everyone. Within a prison system that seeks to deprive people of their freedom, this book supports us in reclaiming our health and healing so that we can connect with and draw strength from the plants around us, and shares with us the empowering knowledge and skills to take care of ourselves and each other.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Please support the <a href="https://solidarityapothecary.org/"><b>Solidarity Apothecary </b></a>by making a donation and/or buying a copy of the The Prisoner’s Herbal, Overcoming Burnout, or some of Solidarity Apothecary’s gear so that more copies of The Prisoner’s Herbal can reach those on the inside.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Let's TGIF together and get to know (better) the plants all around us in the village. We'll focus on a few abundant local "weeds" and the food, medicine, and lessons that they offer. This plant walk will be part super basic plant identification, part storytelling session, and part herbal first aid/wellness class. We'll share simple recipes for making food and remedies to share with our community and loved ones, and discuss ways that plants support social justice movements near and far.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We'll gather at the Plainfield Farmers Market (on the lawn of the Grace United Methodist Church) at 5:30pm and then we'll make our way over to the Rec Field, visiting plants along the way. All ages and experience levels welcome. Event is sprinkle or shine (if it's really pouring we'll postpone). Please RSVP if you can via email: dandelion778 (at) yahoo (dot) com or send a message via Facebook to Dandelioness Herbals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">By donation $1-100+ cash at the plant walk or via Paypal, no one turned away for lack of funds. This event is a fundraiser for <b><a href="https://borderkindness.org/">Border Kindness</a></b>. If anyone would like to contribute to our collective donation w/o attending the plant walk, you can send $ via PayPal to paypal.me/dandelioness or send me a message.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Border Kindness is an organization based in Mexicali, Mexico, that has been providing 1,500 meals daily, supporting members of the migrant community in intense summer heat, including those that are being deported from the US and left in an unfamiliar area, sometimes without even their shoes."Border Kindness provides migrants, refugees, and the displaced with comprehensive services that include food, shelter, clothing and medical care. Our programs and interventions are designed to identify, protect and nurture the most vulnerable – including women, children, elderly and families. Border Kindness believes everyone should have the opportunity to live free of pain, hunger, intimidation and fear. We believe everyone is our neighbor." For more info, click <b><a href="https://borderkindness.org/">here</a></b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We will ramble from the church on flat, paved sidewalk down Mill St to Rec Field Rd. There are no steps to the Rec Field, but there is a medium-steep, unpaved hill down to the field. There is a parking lot with plenty of parking and Port-a-Potty that is not wheelchair-accessible at the Rec Field. Please let me know if you have any questions.Please bring water and whatever else you need in order to be comfortable for our time together (sun, rain, bugs, etc). Plant walk will be in English, with Spanish clarification throughout if anyone would like.Carpooling encouraged, feel free to post on this page to coordinate. The church is on the GMT/RCA <b><a href="http://ridegmt.com/wp-content/uploads/US2Commuter_March20192.pdf">Route 2 Commuter bus</a></b> between Montpelier and St. Johnsbury for those who would like to arrive via bus from either direction (though the plant ramble will end after the last bus).</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For more info, please click <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/627503104425180">here</a></b>.</span>dana l woodruffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862957097090009968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8107309531239268875.post-71500680392410777332019-07-28T10:44:00.002-04:002019-08-05T20:03:55.626-04:00Reciprocity and Reparations: Ways to Give Back as Herbalists<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Reciprocity and Reparations: Ways to Give Back as Herbalists</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">For those of us who support community healing and know that dismantling racism is at the very foundation of this, there are many ways that we as herbalists can show up for and support each other. Whether sending first aid supplies to those stopping pipelines, remedies for tear gas exposure and grief to community members affirming that Black Lives Matters, teas and glycerites to free and sliding-scale clinics, salves to the US/Mexican border, or fundraising for people of color-led projects, there are many details we can be attentive to so that our herbal support is truly rooted in solidarity. We’ll explore not only the practical details of coordinating herbal donations, but how we can do so in a way that interrupts the all-too-common ‘white savior’ complex and ego tripping. Deeply exploring our intentions and impacts strengthens our relationships with ourselves, each other, and the plants, so that we can make and share good medicine and be part of cultivating collective healing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The description above is for a workshop that I'm teaching at the <b><a href="https://www.newomensherbal.com/teacher-bios-workshops-2019/#dana">New England Women's Herbal conference</a></b> August 23–25, 2019.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This page is a space where folks can share resources, thoughts, and questions in the comments below. The comments are moderated, so your message will not appear immediately, but I will approve it soon as long as it pertains to the topic, is helpful for community dialogue, and isn't racist/victim-blaming/otherwise problematic. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">{Sorry for the inconvenience, but it's become necessary due to spam and trolls} I will be adding resources created for and from this class in the future here on this page.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I am also co-teaching an intensive with <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b><a href="http://www.ayongozi.com/">Ayo Ngozi</a></b> and Stephanie Morningstar</span>: <b><a href="https://www.newomensherbal.com/teacher-bios-workshops-2019/#">Intersections Between Herbalism, Health, and Justice: Moving from “Allyship” to “Accompliceship."</a></b> I will post a link to the handout here after the conference.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The first resource to be posted here is this important video:</span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">"Freaked out by police? Pissed about ICE? Outraged at gentrification? What should we do? People are overwhelmed, pissed, and scared right now. This video is about how mutual aid projects are a way to plug into helping people and mobilizing for change. Check out the mutual aid toolkit at <a href="http://bigdoorbrigade.com/"><b>BigDoorBrigade.com</b></a> for more inspiration and information about starting mutual aid projects where you live!"</span></i><br />
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<br />dana l woodruffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862957097090009968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8107309531239268875.post-59564539430292970962018-11-26T23:01:00.002-05:002020-01-10T15:01:03.800-05:00Support Remedies Without Borders/Remedios Sin Fronteras!<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: &quot; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In 2008 I learned about <a href="http://forms.nomoredeaths.org/en/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>No More Deaths/ No Más Muertes</b></a>, a humanitarian aid organization in Arizona providing water, food, and first aid care to those crossing from Mexico into the US through the Sonoran Desert. I was teaching community herbal medicine-making workshops in Vermont and surrounding areas and after reviewing their needs list I got in touch with them to see if the herbal salves and lip balms we were making would be useful. They said yes and I sent the first shipment
of remedies in 2009.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The project has
evolved over the years and now includes muscle rub, antifungal salve, foot powder, aromatherapy sniffers, healing perfumes, and
elixirs and sprays for emotional support and energetic protection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> We</span>’ve received really positive feedback about
how the remedies have supported those crossing the desert during extremely
intense, difficult, and traumatic journeys as well as those providing desert
aid support and community organizing in the borderlands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The remedies are made with much care – from
planting calendula and other seeds in the spring, tending and harvesting the
plants, transforming them into remedies, creating labels in Spanish with images
of healing herbs, bottling and labeling them all, and packing and sending them
off to Arizona/Sonora. Donations of herbs have been shared from many gardens, near and far, as well as beeswax and other supplies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remedies have been made
collectively at a <span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">local </span>college and high schools, herbal gatherings and
</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">community workshops, with mentees, and with family and friends - both youth and grownups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Sometimes we do a mapping activity together where we trace our ancestry, grounding the remedies in a heart-centered place of solidarity. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">In 2015 we received a grant from Herbal Aide. Having the grant money meant we could buy salve containers in bulk, we could purchase proper and more durable labels, and we were able to send a lot more remedies. </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the winter of 2016/7 I fundraised thru YouCaring and thanks to everyone's generosity, I met my goal. The majority of funds went towards covering expenses (supplies and shipping), and a portion also went towards funding my first </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">visit to the Sonoran desert. I wanted to become better acquainted with the people, projects, plants, and land there. Though I appreciated the many years of email and phone communication, there were certain conversations I felt needed to happen face to face, specifically around remedies to heal sexual trauma. Being able to visit the desert aid camp and offices, I was able to see how the remedies were being used, how they could be improved, and what other remedies might be needed. Over the past few years I've connected with the <a href="https://www.kinoborderinitiative.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Kino Border Initiative/Iniciative Kino para la Frontera </b></a>in Nogales, Sonora and I was able to visit their comedor, where those who are preparing to cross the desert and those who have been deported and left in an unfamiliar place with few to no resources can receive clothes, food, and first aid care, as well as call their loved ones. I was also able to visit their women's shelter, an experience that has inspired remedies for the project (see photos below) as well as a separate herbal project at our local domestic violence shelter in Central Vermont.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our fundraising goal now is to raise $4000, with the vast majority of this money going towards getting more remedies to the border. We need more containers for salve, lip balms, foot powder, tinctures and elixirs, etc. We need to cover postage for multiple shipments. We need to buy supplies such as alcohol for tinctures and oil for salves. This year we're also excited to connect with other organizations to explore potential collaborations and we also want to</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> continue</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> supporting those most impacted by racist and xenophobic policies and practices, as well as the caregivers and community members who have been forced to live with checkpoints, racial profiling, and militarization. A small portion of funds will be put aside for a future visit to the desert to deliver remedies and continue to cultivate relationships with the people and projects receiving and distributing the remedies. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">1. The <b><a href="https://www.gofundme.com/remedies-without-bordersremedios-sin-fronteras">Remedies Without Borders/Remedios Sin Fronteras GoFundMe</a></b> fundraising page</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Friends have been in touch recently, moved by the horrific family separations at the US/Mexican border, to see how they can support the children and families being traumatized by this new policy. This current situation – whether it’s family separation or family detention – is inhumane and inexcusable. And also U.S. immigration policy and practice has been a complete nightmare for a long time. Mass detention and deportations, sexual abuse and death at the hands of those “just doing their job” at the border and in detention facilities, corporations profiting off of putting people in cages and politicians pushing to build more facilities and fill every bed. Border patrol destroying life-saving humanitarian aid supplies like water placed in the desert by volunteers, some of whom are facing federal charges for working to ease suffering and prevent deaths that are very much intentionally orchestrated by government policy. And on and on… Many are feeling a sense of urgency and it’s important to gather that collective energy and channel it into action. Also, the situation is ongoing – it’s not a matter of changing one policy or making the system a tiny bit less horrible. Immediate change is important, and also we need *sustained collective action*</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When folks ask what they can do now, my first thought is *Support the Groups That Have Been Doing This Work* There are organizations all over that are doing crucial work, both locally and beyond borders: Gathering community support thru letters and petitions and raising bail money to get neighbors and loved ones out of detention, providing legal advocacy and translation, organizing to become sanctuary communities and for Fair and Impartial Policing Policies that stop local and state law enforcement from working with and as federal immigration agents, rallying to get trans people out of detention where they are particularly vulnerable, doing humanitarian aid work and search and rescue missions in the borderlands, border communities resisting checkpoints and working to end militarization and harassment, and on and on. People are coming together to raise awareness and co-create brilliant strategies of community response to what’s happening locally and beyond. Whatever added crises that the powers-that-be cause on top of the everyday crises impacts all these groups and their efforts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I’m listing some ways that people can support ongoing justice work. Please add more suggestions, resources, and events in the comments! Thank you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">SHOW UP!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It can be really difficult to understand the many layers of policies and lived experiences and constant changes with immigration. There are many people and groups raising awareness about immigration policy, “prevention through deterrence” strategies, and mass detention and deportation thru a historical lens challenging racism and xenophobia. Some news sources to check out are <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=17414523278&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="https://www.democracynow.org/" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Democracy Now!</a> and <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=407570359384477&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="http://www.ajplus.net/" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">AJ+</a>/Al Jazeera. You can follow organizers and artists such as <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=733013250&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="http://www.alanpelaez.com/" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Alan Pelaez</a> and <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100006324727040&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/jenniceteva.gutierrez.9883?fref=mentions" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Jennicet Eva Gutiérrez</a> who are making connections between anti-black racism and xenophobia, transphobia and the criminalization of migration, and organizations such as <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=324712331025477&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="http://nomoredeaths.org/" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">No More Deaths/No Más Muertes</a>, <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=446813398834728&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="https://mijente.net/" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Mijente</a>, <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=111467578878101&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="http://puenteaz.org/" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Puente Human Rights Movement</a>, <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=1457022437920772&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="https://mariposassinfronteras.org/" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Mariposas Sin Fronteras</a>, <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=203834142989490&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="https://www.kinoborderinitiative.org/" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Kino Border Initiative / Iniciativa Kino para la Frontera</a>, and <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=207549645977714&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="https://webelongtogether.org/" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">We Belong Together</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">SUPPORT EXISTING ORGANIZATIONS</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There are community organizations all over who are doing the important daily work of addressing the root causes of im/migration, mass detention, and deportation. Groups are resisting racial profiling and the targeting of immigrant communities, changing policy at the local, state, and national level, challenging white supremacy in our schools and creating/defending ethnic studies curriculum, and working in coalition with other organizations working for racial justice, trans liberation, indigenous rights, reproductive justice, disability justice, and more. What are you most drawn to? You can connect with groups in your local area, and you can also find groups that may be geographically far from you but that are in alignment with your values and resonate with what you are most passionate about. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There are many ways to be involved. You can spread the word about events, write letters to the editor, provide transportation or food for events, get organizations you’re already connected with (your union, faith organization, craft group) to support grassroots community organizations. Attend events and panels organized by (or that at least include!) people of color-led organizations. Listen to what they are asking for in terms of support and help provide resources that are requested. You and/or organizations you’re connected with can become a sustaining member of a grassroots group, giving a monthly donation so that groups can focus less on fundraising and more on campaigns and long-term vision. With time, as you continue to show up and cultivate relationships based on solidarity, other ways of giving support may reveal themselves. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ABOLISH ICE</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Team up with others to understand how ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is impacting YOUR community. Who is ICE targeting in your area? How are people responding and organizing? How are people holding your local and state law enforcement accountable and ending racial profiling and collusion with immigration officials? Who is addressing systemic racism and xenophobia? In Vermont, you can support <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=231335660706444&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="https://migrantjustice.net/" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Migrant Justice / Justicia Migrante</a> and <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=1621864444722589&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="http://justiceforallvt.org/" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Justice For All</a> by showing up to rallies, joining them at the Statehouse to support important legislation, donating money or helping to organize a fundraiser. Following their Facebook pages and signing up on their email lists will help keep you in the loop. If you don’t know of any human rights/immigrant rights groups in your area, you can check out the <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=18982436812&extragetparams=%7B%22fref%22%3A%22mentions%22%7D" href="https://www.aclu.org/" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">ACLU</a> in your region to see what projects they’re working on and who they’re collaborating with. And speak with your friends, family, neighbors, co-workers! Wherever you live, surely there are others around you who are outraged by all that is happening and teaming up can help support our collective mental and emotional health. It also builds courage so that we can speak out against racism and xenophobia whenever and wherever we encounter it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Simply reading the news, let alone directly being impacted by immigration policies and actively working for justice, can be heartbreaking. It’s important to take care of ourselves and each other however we can. The most basics of self-care/survival can easily fall by the wayside when we are feeling so much. Constantly facing dehumanizing words, images, and policies can take a toll on our health at many levels. We can support each other to stay hydrated, get some sleep, get some movement (physical, emotional, etc), eat (nourishing foods are great, and so are comfort foods or whatever we can eat/afford), take our herbs/medications and get to health appointments, share time together and/or have time for solitude, get outside or visit a garden or look at beautyfull images of flowers and trees, whatever we need to do. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You can also check out this <b><a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2014/02/in-case-of-emotional-emergency-self.html">In Case of (emotional) Emergency</a></b> form</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">MORE RESOURCES</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Longer lists of groups to support <a href="https://www.facebook.com/alex.mensing.9/posts/10102170779033285" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For those who love plants and herbal remedies: For the past 10+ years I’ve made herbal remedies for those crossing the Sonoran Desert and those providing humanitarian aid in Sonora, Mexico and Arizona. If anyone would like to make a donation towards this project, I have left this fundraiser active <b><a href="https://www.youcaring.com/herbalremedyprojectwnomoredeathskinoborderinitiati-705847" target="_blank">here</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Message from Free the Children Coalition “A lot of people are feeling helpless regarding the kidnapping of children and their internment. It seems that people are feeling the desperate situation requires desperate measures, and they are right. But PLEASE keep in mind the potential harm to those you are trying to help with measures that can cause unintended consequences for the vulnerable children and the immigrant community. Check your privilege. Shutting down an ICE facility, taking over a Congressional Office, demanding statements, identifying those who are profiting from these centers are all good options….” More <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/FreeTheChildrenCoalition/posts/1998256396874838" target="_blank">here</a></b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/how-you-can-fight-family-separation-at-the-border.html" target="_blank"> Here’s How You Can Help Fight Family Separation at the Border: Lawyers, translators, donations, protest. </a></b>(article) "The best way to stop the horrific separation of children from their families at the border is to pay attention to what is happening to their parents…(who) are being criminally prosecuted, facing up to 20 years in prison for simply migrating. It is this criminal prosecution for “illegal entry” and “re-entry” by the Department of Justice that allows for the government to take children away, put them in cages, or send them to live with complete strangers, while their parents sit in private prisons.” </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Racist History of Illegal Immigration (video –<span id="goog_953272128"></span><span id="goog_953272129"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a> graphic images)</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/196848580832824/videos/201553477029001/?fref=mentions">here</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Feeling frazzled? Drained? Burnt out? Let’s carve out some time together to replenish and rejuvenate in this 2-part work/playshop. We will explore ways to nourish our nervous systems by drawing on simple self-care practices and medicine-making with common abundant herbs that grow here to support ourselves, our loved ones, and communities. In both sessions we’ll make calming remedies collectively both to bring home and to share with community based organizations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is a hands-on class with lots of show (& taste) and tell and learning directly from the plants and each other. We will focus on practical ways that we can integrate relaxing herbs both internally and externally into our everyday lives. While created with caregivers, gardeners, and community organizers in mind, all experience levels and backgrounds are welcome.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This 2-part workshop takes place Friday Oct 27 and Friday Nov 10 5:30-7:30pm in Plainfield, VT.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Space is limited, please reserve your spot soon by emailing dandelion778@yahoo.com</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Accessibility: There are 3 steps in front of the building and 4 steps inside, with a rail at both set of stairs. The bathroom is quite small, an accessible bathroom with a ramp is available next door. The event is held in a public space and cannot be assured to be scent-free. Scents: We will be using essential oils (unless someone is not able to be around them, please be in touch if scent is a concern and participants will be contacted and asked to refrain from wearing fragrances). Transportation: Location is in Plainfield along the Route 2 Commuter bus route. Start time accommodates arriving via bus, but misses the last buses both east and west. Carpool encouraged. Ages: To create as relaxing an environment as we can, this workshop is for adults and teens/pre-teens that want to participate. No childcare provided unfortunately. Language: Workshop will be in English, with Spanish clarification throughout if anyone would like. Please be in touch with any accessibility questions or concerns.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The 2-week series is $30-100 sliding scale ($15-50 per class including materials fee, according to what you are able to pay). If you’re interested in participating, but the cost is out of reach, please be in touch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Facebook event page <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1295061480621162/">here</a></b>.</span><br />
<br />dana l woodruffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862957097090009968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8107309531239268875.post-14413056887128116722017-09-24T15:58:00.000-04:002017-10-08T14:01:18.906-04:00Support and Collective Healing for US Political Prisoner Herman Bell<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Update!: </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Herman Bell is now in general population! He was told that the charges will be dropped! Visit Free Herman Bell for more information on how to best support him.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>From Herman (written earlier) with many thanks for all of our efforts:</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>September 27, 2017</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>My dear brothers and sisters,</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Thank you for the outpouring of cards, letters, healing-love and energy that you sent me in response to the unprovoked brutal assault on me by NYS prison guards at Comstock, NY – a vicious slap aside the head from behind and shoved to the ground. I protected myself as best as I could. I sustained multiple kicks, punches to the face and eyes, repeated head slams into concrete, and 2 cracked ribs. They tried to bury me with raining blows, not knowing that I am a seed. But the burning pepper spray sprayed into my eyes and mouth is what did me in – and yet, here I am.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Now I know why visitors bring flowers and candy to the hospital. I was immediately sent, however, not to a hospital but to the Box for “assault on staff,” so the cards and letters and love you sent me were my flowers and candy. You did great!</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I was astonished, not by the outpouring of your support, but by the enormity of it.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>People are coming together and are standing up. They are finding that they are not entitled to the rights and freedoms they think they have as americans. Instead of the consideration americans – many of them voters – deserve, they are ignored by authoritarian and elected officials.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>They lack healthcare, suffer from unrestrained police violence, mass incarceration, lack a living wage, experience poverty and homelessness, and suffer from a toxic environment. People are standing up against these injustices, insisting that their demands be respected and addressed.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>The social injustice, jackboot repression, racist attacks, discrimination, wealth disparities, unemployment, lack of affordable housing (the list doesn’t just end there), creates waves of fierce discontent which ls gaining steady momentum, becoming a full-blown cleansing tsunami, the force of which is irresistible.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>And that force is you, the People, coming together and taking a stand. My flowers and candy is your outpouring of support for me, our political prisoners, the mass incarcerated and the voiceless.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>To write each of you (I’ve literally received hundreds of letters) a personal “thank you” at this time would be impossible. So, I send this “thank you!” instead.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Thank you! I thank you deeply one and all for the empathy, outrage, love and support you’ve expressed in the face of the assault on me. May our resolve to produce social change remain unshakeable.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Herman Bell</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>P.O. Box 700</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Wallkill, New York 12589</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>(most updated addresses for U.S. Political Prisoners, with birthdays, posted <a href="http://www.jerichony.org/prisoners.html">here</a>)</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Some of you may know Herman Bell, who is a US Political Prisoner, former Black Panther, movement elder, <b><a href="http://www.freehermanbell.org/VictoryGardens.html">Victory Gardens Project </a></b>co-founder, <a href="http://certaindays.org/"><b>Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar</b> </a>co-creator, father, grandfather, husband, and mentor to many both on the inside and the outside. How is Herman connected with herbs and herbal justice? In the 15 years since I was a volunteer at the Victory Gardens Project, near my hometown in Maine, Herman and I have corresponded. He is a friend and mentor to me. The Radherb Collective, which I was a part of for many years, took inspiration from the Victory Gardens Project. Over the years, though our letters and face-to-face visits, Herman has helped shape who I am as an herbalist, how I make remedies, and my understanding of the the way herbs and social justice are completely entwined. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Herman is 69 years old, has been incarcerated for 43 years and has been denied parole 7 times. On Sept 5th Herman was assaulted by a group of officers at Great Meadow Correctional Facility. He was singled out, brought to an area away from all the other inmates to where there is no video surveillance, and guards began beating him. The account is personally really difficult for me to read, and the thought that he could have died in the attack is beyond upsetting. He did survive the attack. He was then taken to the infirmary where he waited for hours and did not receive adequate medical care for the beating he had just endured. He had the medical staff note that there were no abrasions on his hands or any other indication that he assaulted a guard. He was transferred to another facility hours away where he has been held in solitary, continues to be denied medical care for the head trauma and other injuries inflicted on him by the guards, and he is also facing the serious charge of assaulting an officer. He continues to experience headaches, his vision is affected from being maced at close range, and two ribs were broken in the attack.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Anyone who knows Herman knows he did not assault an officer. Herman is an elder who has not had an infraction for over 20 years (when he participated in a strike over inmate conditions), he was only days away from finally having a family visit (which he'd been denied without justification for over two and half years), and he has been preparing for his next parole hearing in early 2018.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">1. We need to flood the Commissioner with messages of support demanding that Herman receive medical attention, be removed from solitary, have the charges against him dropped, have access to family visits, and that the officers who attacked him be fired. You can simply cut and past the sample letter <b><a href="http://freehermanbell.org/Assaulted.html">here</a></b>, or add your own personal message. <strong><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-7AT18h25-5WWtFalNRTXhDamM/view?usp=sharing">Here</a></strong> is a pdf of the letter that you can print out, sign/address/date, and send. If you are able, please print out extra copies for friends and family to also sign and send in. Also, if you are able, please send this same letter to: Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor of New York State, NYS State Capitol Building, Albany, NY 12224.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2. Please take a few minutes to send an email to the Commissioner and Governor. (Sample email below)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">3. People are also encouraged to write to Herman to show support. (Address below)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">4. Please spread the word!!! If you have other organizations that you are connected with, please share this message with them and encourage friends and family to send letters as well. This information can be found online <b><a href="http://freehermanbell.org/Assaulted.html">here</a></b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Anthony Annucci</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dear Commissioner Annucci (Governor Cuomo):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am writing in concern and outrage over the unprovoked beating by Great Meadow C.F. correctional officers of Herman Bell, #79C0262.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On September 5th, with no provocation, five or six correctional officers assaulted this widely respected elder. These guards punched and kicked Mr. Bell all over his body while he was on the ground. He was kneed in the chest and stomach, breaking two of his ribs. One guard then grabbed his head and slammed it into the ground three times, at which point Mr. Bell thought his life would be ending. He was excessively maced at close range all over his face and eyes, causing temporarily blindness and inability to breathe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mr. Bell is accused of assaulting one of the officers. This charge is absurd. The assault on Herman Bell is part of an epidemic of violence by NYS prison guards against the incarcerated population--an epidemic documented by the New York Times and other journalists, as well as by criminal justice agencies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The idea that this 69-year-old man would have hit an officer is ludicrous, as he was about to have a family visit (the first in two and a half years) and was beginning preparations for an appearance at the Board of Parole this coming February. Mr. Bell was looking forward to the family visit with great anticipation, and he is optimistic about his chances at the Board, given recent changes in parole regulations and the appointment of new commissioners. There is absolutely no doubt that he did not commit any infraction on September 5th; he also has not had a ticket in the past 20 years. Mr. Bell has been imprisoned in the NY State system for over 38 years and has never been accused of assaulting staff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This brutal assault by Great Meadow guards constitutes not only staff abuse but also elder abuse. Mr. Bell will be 70 years of age in four months. He was badly injured in the beating. Mr. Bell requires both a CT scan of his head and an ophthalmology examination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I write to demand that you take these actions:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That CO J. Saunders and the other officers responsible for the beating be fired;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That the ridiculous charges brought against Herman Bell be dropped immediately and that he be returned at least to general population (he </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That Mr. Bell’s family visits be reinstated;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">That Mr. Bell be moved to a facility where his family visiting can take place and be rescheduled at the earliest possible date.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Sincerely,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">More info about the assault and a longer sample letter (which points out that the attack is a form of elder abuse) to print out and send to the Commissioner available <b><a href="http://freehermanbell.org/Assaulted.html">here</a></b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Herman Bell</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>(most updated addresses for U.S. Political Prisoners, with birthdays, posted <a href="http://www.jerichony.org/prisoners.html">here</a>)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For anyone reading this during the weekend of Sept 23-24, feel free to join us in the <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1643100662429680/">Collective Healing for Herman Bell from wherever you are</a></b>. People are gathering together from across Turtle Island/the US, Lebanon, Ireland, and possibly beyond to send Herman healing energy to heal and strengthen his body and spirit. Emails and letters to the Commissioner and Governor are <b>vital</b>. Sending Herman our love in this collective way is another that we can manifest our support and solidarity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For those in Central Vermont, there will be a <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/715673458632198/?ref=br_rs">Letter Writing Event to Support Herman Bell </a></b>on Sunday Oct 29, 2017 from 2-4pm at the </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Christ Episcopal Church, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">64 State St, Montpelier, VT. More info to come.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>For more information and updates:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><a href="https://www.colorlines.com/articles/weeks-after-guards-attacked-him-political-prisoner-herman-bell-being-denied-family-visits">Weeks After Guards Attacked Him, Political Prisoner Herman Bell Is Being </a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><a href="https://www.colorlines.com/articles/weeks-after-guards-attacked-him-political-prisoner-herman-bell-being-denied-family-visits">Denied Family Visits: </a></b>Bell’s daughter-in-law, kihana miraya ross, reflects on how vital visits are for both Bell and their family</span></div>
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<b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/nyregion/new-york-state-prisons-inmates-racial-bias.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Scourge of Racial Bias </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in New York State’s Prisons: </span></a></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A New York Times investigation draws on nearly 60,000 </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">disciplinary cases from state prisons and interviews with inmates </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to explore the system’s inequities and the ripple effect they can have. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Video of Herman and his family <b><a href="https://vimeo.com/51465733">here</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><a href="https://www.freedomarchives.org/">The Freedom Archives</a></b> 12,000 hours of audio and video recordings and thousands of documents about social justice movements locally, nationally, and internationally from the 1960s to the present. The Archives features speeches of movement leaders and community activists, protests and demonstrations, cultural currents of rebellion and resistance.</span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="26nn8-0-0"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A friend asked me today what can be done with roses that are in full bloom right now and I thought let's make a collective list! What are your favorite rose recipes and potions??</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="4q02q-0-0"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">*ROSE BATH SALTS ~ Layer rose petals in a jar with sea salt to make lovely bath salts. Simply pour in some salt, then scatter a very thin layer of rose petals {fresh or left for a few hours or overnight to wilt and dry a bit}</span></span><span data-offset-key="4q02q-0-0"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, more salt, and on and on. i like to use plastic or glass lids, as metal ones can corrode from the salt. Add these salts to your (foot)bath water for a special treat.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="3i0bd-0-0"><span data-text="true" style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">*ROSE ELIXIR ~ Infuse fresh rose petals in brandy or vodka to capture fresh rose petal heart-medicine for all year round. I like to add local honey or maple syrup to this. If using honey, I pour it over the rose petals and stir it so that the petals begin to release their moisture and medicine right away into the honey. This also helps incorporate all the ingredients, so they don't separate out {as much}. Then I pour brandy in, stir or shake it up, and let it all infuse for an entire mo(o)nth cycle. {proportions-wise, probably add about 1-1.5 cups of honey to a quart jar that's half-full or full - but not packed tight - with rose petals and then fill it to the top with brandy. You just want to keep the total alcohol content about 20-25%} If i'm adding maple syrup, I infuse the rose petals in the brandy or vodka for a month, and then add the maple syrup when I'm pouring it up into individual bottles. This remedy can be taken by the drop or dropper full when needing some heart-support, such as grieving a loss, opening your heart, mending a broken heart, or exploring personal or ancestral trauma.</span></span></div>
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<br />dana l woodruffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862957097090009968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8107309531239268875.post-30889901602891063122017-06-08T11:01:00.000-04:002017-06-09T08:20:39.588-04:00*St. John's wort Harvest and Remedy Making* with Dandelioness Herbals + Wake Robin Botanicals <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Presenting the first of hopefully many video collaborations between Dana of </span><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/dandelionessHerbals/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dandelioness Herbals</span></a></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and Atalanta of </span><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/WakeRobinBotanicals/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wake Robin Botanicals</span></a></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">!!! For those of us living in places where spring has been slow coming, we thought we'd share this video that we made at the height of summer on a super sunny day. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the video we harvest St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum) flowers and buds and make blood-red herbal infused oil. This oil can be used as a massage oil or transformed into a first aid salve, lip balm, sore muscle rub, salve for nerve damage and burns (including sunburn), sunscreen, and more. Because it has not only physically soothing and healing properties, but also energetically protective ones, I commonly include it in remedies that I send to <a href="http://nomoredeaths.org/en/"><b>No More Deaths/No Más Muertes</b></a> (en Español <b><a href="http://nomoredeaths.org/es/">here</a></b>) and other humanitarian aid organizations supporting those crossing the desert from Mexico into the U.S. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">For more information about making infused oils, salves, and lip balms are posted here:::</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If you'd like some remedies that capture summer vitality in a bottle, check out DH + WRH remedies with Lemon Balm, St. Johns wort, Rose, and other medicinal herbs. We have tinctures, elixirs, salves, balms, and more...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lemon Balm Elixir, Fabulousness In A Bottle, Milky Oat Elixir, Protective Ocean Essence, Love It Up! Breast and Chest Massage Balm, and more from Dandelioness Herbals </span><b><a href="https://dandelionessherbals.etsy.com/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">here</span></a></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Linda Black Elk was coordinator of the Oceti Sakowin Prayer Camps' Medic and Healers Council at Standing Rock. She is an ethno-botanist, healer, herbalist, teacher, mother, Water Protector and so much more. During our conversation she talks about the ongoing Water Protector Camps and support that has been building for the Mni Wiconi Clinic which will be a free wholistic clinic at Standing Rock. She also shares about restoration ecology work being organized for the area of the former camps in N. Dakota. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The theme of the program and our time together was <b>reciprocity</b> and <b>relationship</b>. May we continue to cultivate relationships with each other and create reciprocity with the plants that nourish us and our movements for justice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The conversation felt like a tea party, the station felt like an electric garden! I brought along </span><b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/486104997/restorative-moons-elixir-a-magic-blend"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Restorative Moons</span></a></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> at the station. This remedy is burnout prevention/repair in a bottle, with rose, milky oats, a collaboration by </span><b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/dandelionessherbals"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dandelioness Herbals</span></a></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and </span><b><a href="http://wakerobinbotanicals.com/products/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Wake Robin Botanicals</span></a></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><br />dana l woodruffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862957097090009968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8107309531239268875.post-42090631030788120982016-12-02T15:38:00.000-05:002016-12-10T11:03:37.468-05:00Fundraiser::: Remedies to the Border! And me with them! <div class="post-header">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In 2008 I learned about <a href="https://www.youcaring.com/external-link.htm?target=http-#--_--_-forms.nomoredeaths.org-_-en-_-" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #552222;"><b>No More Deaths/ No Más Muertes</b></span></a>, a humanitarian aid organization in Arizona providing water, food, and first aid care to those crossing from Mexico into the U.S. through the Sonoran Desert. I was teaching community herbal medicine-making workshops and after reviewing their needs list I got in touch with them to see if the herbal salves and lip balms we were making would be useful. They said yes and I sent the first shipment of remedies in 2009.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The project has evolved over the years, now including teas, foot powder, various salves, and elixirs and sprays for emotional support and energetic protection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve received really positive feedback about how the remedies have supported those crossing the desert during extremely intense, difficult, and traumatic journeys as well as those providing desert aid work and community organizing in the borderlands.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The remedies are made with much care – from planting calendula and other seeds in the spring, tending and harvesting the plants, transforming them into remedies, creating labels in Spanish with images of healing herbs, bottling and labeling them all, and packing and sending them off to Arizona.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remedies have been made collectively at a college and local high schools, herbal gatherings and </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">community workshops, and with friends - both youth and grownups.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Sometimes we do a mapping activity together where we trace our ancestry, grounding the remedies in a heart-centered place of solidarity. In 2015 I received a grant from Herbal Aide. Having the grant money meant I could buy salve containers in bulk, we could purchase proper, more durable labels, and we were able to send a lot more remedies. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Over the past year it has become clear that the time has come for me to physically visit the border. I want to become better acquainted with the people, projects, plants, and land there. Though I appreciate the years of email and phone communication, there are certain conversations that need to happen face to face, specifically around remedies to heal sexual trauma. Being able to visit the camp and offices, I will be able to see how the remedies are being used, how they may be improved, and what other remedies may be needed. Over the past year I've connected with the <b><a href="https://www.youcaring.com/external-link.htm?target=https-#--_--_-www.kinoborderinitiative.org-_-" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #552222;">Kino Border Initiative/Iniciative Kino para la Frontera </span></a>in Nogales</b>, Sonora and would like to connect with them in person. I also want to be there this January, during Trump’s inauguration, to support those that have been dealing with the emotionally and physically draining work of providing services and organizing for justice in a climate of constant crisis. I want to support the caregivers and community members who have been forced to live with checkpoints, racial profiling, and a militarized border.<br /><br /> My fundraising goal is to raise $2000, with a significant amount of this money going towards getting more remedies to the border. I need to buy a plane ticket and cover food and travel costs for my trip, and I want to have money for this coming year to replenish the stock of containers and other supplies. Any amount is much appreciated. Feel free to share this link with others who love herbs, im/migrant justice, collective liberation, and healing justice. Thank you so much!<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">1. My <b><a href="https://www.youcaring.com/RemediesForTheBorder"><span style="color: #552222;">Remedies to the Border! And me with them!</span></a> </b>YouCaring fundraising page</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">2. PayPal to <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null">dandelion778@yahoo.com</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Please i</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">nclude a note that the money is for “remedies for the border”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">3. Check made out to Dana L Woodruff (please email </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">dandelion778@yahoo.com </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for mailing address)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">4. Cash given in person at the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1793250054280703/"><span style="color: #552222;"><b>Holiday Trunk Sale</b></span></a> 12/11 or by arrangement </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thanks to some super generous and crafty people, there are fabulous gifts as part of this fundraiser:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-Botanical/uterine art print by Gloria.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Available to anyone who gives a donation of $25 or more</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-Hand-stamped silver spoons that say “SWEETIE” by Emily of<a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/rebloomingarts"> <span style="color: #552222;"><b>ReBlooming Arts</b></span></a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Available to the first 8<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>people who give a donation of $35 or more</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-Hand-knit hats (3 cream colored wool hats, <strike>1 striped rainbow wool hat</strike>, and 3 mermaid-y colored wool/acrylic blend hats.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In various sizes) by my mother who recently sent 40 hand-knit hats to support the water protectors at Standing Rock!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Available to the first 7 people who give a donation of $50 or more </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-Ocean Protection Essence by me, <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/dandelionessherbals"><b>Dandelioness Herbals</b></a>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An elixir made with Rose petals and Rose hips hand-harvested at the ocean, infused in brandy and local honey, with flower essence of Rose, St. Johns wort, Motherwort, Meadowsweet, and Yarrow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1oz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Available to the first 20 people who give a donation of $75 or more</span></div>
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Like in years past, next Thursday many families will be gathering from near and far to feast together on local/traditional foods. Many will be observing this day as the <b><a href="http://www.uaine.org/dom.htm">National Day of Mourning</a>, </b>organized by the United American Indians of New England, there<b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1526787624229601/?fref=ts">at the event </a></b>in Plymouth, MA, and attending the potluck after, or in spirit from wherever we may be. The next day, only one day after giving thanks for all that we have and/or for mourning the generations of racism and genocide that have poisoned this land, hordes will push and shove and grab (but hopefully this year not trample to death and added to the lives lost<b> </b>from the mayhem of previous Black Friday) to buy stuff. Stuff probably made in sweatshops and sold at stores owned by corporations that refuse to pay their workers a living wage, while making gazillions of dollars and not paying a cent in taxes. Others will be gathering in front of said stores celebrating <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buy_Nothing_Day">Buy Nothing Day,</a></b> in support of said workers and protesting said corporations and the vicious cycle of capitalism (devaluing workers, buying elections, destroying the environment, etc).</span><br />
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This year, Ferguson and communities all over the US also await the verdict to see if the police will finally be held accountable, or if yet another white officer walks free after murdering a person of color. <b><a href="http://fergusonresponse.tumblr.com/">Events</a> </b>are planned all over the country. In Mexico,<b><a href="http://fusion.net/video/24660/see-exclusive-video-of-missing-ayotzinapa-students-before-their-disappearance/"> our compaNer@s continue the search</a> </b>for their loved ones in Guerrero. Elsewhere, and all over the world, people are organizing for justice too. </span><br />
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There's so much to celebrate and so much to grieve. And it's so important to come together in these times to support and feed one another. Figuratively and literally.</span><br />
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However we pass this coming week, may it at least in part be a time to remember the foundation of the US - genocide, racism, stolen land, slavery, exploited labor - and to recommit ourselves to working for justice, in solidarity across lines of color, gender, nationality, ability, age, class, etc. And for those of us born into privilege, may we reflect on how these dynamics still play out and how we contribute to them. (This time of year is one of retrospection about my ancestry, being a descendant of two who came over on the Mayflower and enslaved the indigenous peoples upon arrival, setting up a precedence for violent racism, land theft, and (Northern!) slavery that white people still benefit from today. Being at the Day of Mourning at the site of their arrival felt like it was part of healing some ancestral wounds.) May we take the lead from the communities most impacted by injustice, and recommit ourselves to unlearning the racism, white supremacy, and other forms of oppression that seek to divide us. May we speak up both during mainstream Thanksgiving white-washing of history and in our daily lives in general when indigenous people are ignored, made silent, made fun of, disrespected, depicted in degrading/cartoonish/dehumanizing ways, and invaded - both literally on their land, like at <b><a href="http://supportblackmesa.org/">Black Mesa</a></b>, and also their sacred cultural practices ~ plant medicine traditions, healing practices, and sacred ceremonial objects.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As we wait, feast, grieve, protest, and organize, may we call on the plants and the ancestors to support us in these times. <b>Here are some ways that we can practice self-care and collective-care, in solitude or in community.</b> <i>For clarity: these are not shoulds! These are suggestions intended to be supportive. These are notes to myself too, for when I forget.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Prepare an herbal bath or foot bath</b> ~ sometimes a messy herbal/floral bath is just what we're needing, where every part of our beautiful bodies is bathed with bits of flower petals, leaves, and evergreen needles. Directions <a href="http://www.curanderismo.org/#!Full-Moon-Plant-Spirit-Bath/c1htb/19654FF2-A3A1-4772-86D0-C1BABD88072A" style="font-weight: bold;">here</a> for an herbal bath in a tub or shower. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Also, a <b><a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-peoples-spa-reclaiming-relaxation_20.html">foot bath</a></b> draws stress and zingy energy that can keep us from sleeping well, and sends it away with the bathwater. Giving myself a <b>mini-foot massage with cream </b>as I begin and end my day always makes me feel both relaxed and grounded.</span><br />
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<b>Eat nourishing foods as a form of medicine</b> what makes your body feel good, both when you're eating and afterwards. For me it's chicken and rice noodles and sweet potatoes and greens and baked apples. My body just says yes! when I eat these. What does your body say yes too? What has your body been craving lately? Also, taking <b><a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2011/10/sweet-truth-about-bitters.html">bitters</a> </b>supports our livers which work so dang hard, and help us to digest and absorb the nutrients from all that good, nourishing food.</span><br />
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<b>Massage our bodies with oils to ground and relax us</b> with olive, grapeseed, coconut, sunflower, sesame oils. See what kind feels good on your skin. And there's no need to go buy some expensive body oil. If you have these unrefined oils in your home for cooking, use 'em on your skin! Remember, our skin is our largest organ and it's best not to put on our skin anything we wouldn't put in our bodies. You can add a few drops of essential oils, or <b><a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2011/03/immigration-and-lip-balms-for-social.html">infuse your oils with herbs</a></b> if you like, but just plain oil can feel sooo good too! My favorite is a blend of coconut and sesame (untoasted, and infused with chamomile flowers!) oils.</span><br />
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<b>Burn candles, herbs, and incense or spray <a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2013/08/do-it-yourself-hydrosols-making-and.html">floral waters </a>to shift the energy of our physical space</b></span><br />
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<b>Participate/Don't</b> If joining up with others for a Day of Mourning or anti-racism/police violence event will feed your spirit, do it! If you're feeling a bit (or a lot) burnt out and need some rest and relaxation, do it! We can't be everywhere all the time and events aren't just about having a body count. If we're going to be drained from attending, maybe our time would be better passed doing some of the nurturing things on this list. Or hunting or finger painting or whatever you feel like. It's about being in it for the long haul, not pushing ourselves to physically be at every event. That said, it can be really encouraging and inspiring to share space with others who are passionate about social justice, and just feel all the range of emotions we're feeling, with collective witness to the pain of injustice. You make the call and just know that you made a conscious, self-care-y decision. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Fill out your In Case of (emotional) Emergency Form </b>a self-care/community-care form to fill out when you’re feeling grounded, supported, calm, inspired, etc. To read when you’re not. You can find it <b><a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2014/02/in-case-of-emotional-emergency-self.html">here</a></b>.</span><br />
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<b>Unplug</b> while I'm a big fan of the people's media and keeping informed, it's also easy to get overstimulated and overwhelmed in a way that depletes, rather than feeds and inspires, us. Check in with yourself, are you present in your body and choosing what you let into your space or are you going on auto-pilot and getting bombarded with information and images? Take some time to unplug. Turn off the phone, computer, radio, whatever gadget is demanding your attention. And do some of the practices listed above, if they sound good to you.</span><br />
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Dandelioness Herbals also creates remedies to offer physical and emotional support within a culture of self-care and collective-care. While you can enjoy these remedies at home, they are also convenient for bringing with you to rallies, gatherings, potlucks, when traveling, and wherever else you may go, when you may not be able to make tea, prepare a footbath, and do other self-care practices . <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/192621336/relaxation-in-a-bottle-choose-your-own?ref=shop_home">Relaxation in a Bottle</a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/97859837/calm-the-rage-elixir-to-cool-hot?ref=shop_home_active_4">Calm the Rage</a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/186236426/heart-elixir-remedy-to-open-heal-protect?ref=shop_home_active_5">Heart Elixir</a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/103627645/relaxing-bitters-dandelion-skullcap-and?ref=shop_home_active_22">Relaxing Bitters</a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/190175326/stay-ready-nourishing-elixir-for?ref=shop_home_active_17">Stay Ready</a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/207836019/mercurys-in-retrograde-again-herbal?ref=shop_home_active_12">Mercury's In Retrograde, Again?!</a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/93287982/yarrow-flower-essence-clear-strong?ref=shop_home_active_23">Yarrow Flower Essence for clear and strong boundaries</a></b>, and others. I'm happy to make a custom blend that is especially for you, where you're at, and what you're dealing with and focusing on.</span><br />
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May we transform next week and this season into an opportunity for healing and growth and renewed solidarity.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Photos by Dana L Woodruff/Dandelioness Herbals, from the top: a wee bowl of Chamomile; Chamomile and Lavender harvest; basket of Lemon Balm; Milky Oat harvest; Evergreen-Rose foot bath for <b><a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-peoples-spa-reclaiming-relaxation_20.html">the People's Spa</a>;</b> Make-it-as-we-go-along personalized Relaxation in a Bottle tincture and flower-infused oils for self-massage before bed/bathing from the<b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/695867517173864"> Community Self-Care: Nourishing our Nervous Systems for the Long Haul </a></b>workshop series;</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> bee coming in for a Tulsi/Holy Basil landing; gathering Rose pollen; Yarrow for strong boundaries; and Chamomile tea.</span>dana l woodruffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862957097090009968noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8107309531239268875.post-12013415127518405722014-09-27T18:26:00.001-04:002014-09-27T18:49:15.325-04:00Autumn Herbal Abundance for Community Health Projects!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As the seasons shift from summer to autumn, many feel our lives change in big and small ways. Many of us get much more specific about temperatures (<i>but it is going to dip down below 30</i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>°</i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i> tonight or will it just be a light frost?!</i>) and live amidst a harvest explosion - medicinal herbs hanging from drying racks and makeshift lines across the living room; filling all the Mason jars in the house with tinctures and elixirs and infused oils and vinegars </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and tomatoes and...; navigating around pots of basil and other frost-sensitive</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> plants and baskets of herbs and vegetables and apples brought in from the cold.</span><br />
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There are many ways to preserve the harvest - canning and pickling and drying and fermenting and freezing. We cannot possibly gather all the fruit and vegetables and herbs that grow both wild and in gardens this time of year. We have to decide. We have to let some things freeze, some things rot. We have to let go. And choose what we focus on. Growing up in New England, I think it's in my bones to always be thinking about preserving food and medicine for the months when all is buried beneath ice and snow, or at least the cold. It brings a great sense of security when the cupboards and fridge is full of food and when the apothecary is full of medicine. And while this survival mode may be deep-rooted, so is the drive to share the harvest. </span><br />
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This summer has been liberating - leaving flowers unharvested for the pollinators to enjoy. Focusing on the remedies I love to make and share. Making the medicines I love most for my loved ones, my business, and myself. I also love to collaborate and make spontaneous medicine with others - creating blends that otherwise would not exist because of the people who come together and the ideas and medicinal plants and ingredients shared. This makes </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">strong medicine. And an important part of making medicine as a community is to share the medicine with the community. Making herbal remedies for community health projects helps support vital work that many grassroots organizations are doing both near and far. I love to send remedies not only for those being served, but also the grassroots community </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">organizers, herbalists, nurses, street medics, etc, that are giving care, to help sustain not only their work, but their physical and emotional health and the health of the collective.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lately I've been focusing on making remedies to send to </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><a href="http://forms.nomoredeaths.org/en/">No More Deaths/No Más Muertes</a></b>, a </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">humanitarian aid organization providing food, water, and first aid care to those crossing the desert from Mexico into Arizona. I made a soothing massage balm to promote restful sleep and protection from nightmares following traumatic events (ie detention, deportation). I went to a local high school to make herbal lip balm with a student as part of their independent studies. In the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/695867517173864/?fref=ts" style="font-weight: bold;">Community Self-Care: Nourishing our Nervous Systems for the Long Haul</a> series we all made relaxing muscle rub to bring home, and a bunch more to send to NMD. And next week, Sandra Lory of <b><a href="http://mandalabotanicalsvt.com/">Mandala Botanicals</a></b> and I are co-facilitating a </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/440051116132853/?fref=ts" style="font-weight: bold;">No More Deaths Herbal Medicine-Making Session & Mapping our Ancestry Activity</a>. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We’ll explore (im)migration, both past and present - including our own ancestries, through an engaging mapping activity. Then together we'll create an herbal salve/lip balm together for everyone to take home, as well as to send to No More Deaths/No Más Muertes. For more info please see <a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2011/03/immigration-and-lip-balms-for-social.html" style="font-weight: bold;">(Im)migration and Lip Balms for Social Justice?!</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">With all these medicine-making sessions, the bundle of remedies to send to the desert is growing! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If you're interested in supporting herbal medicine-making for No More Deaths, but can't make it to the event, or you'd like to donare supplies (containers, infused oils, beeswax, essential oils, and others, or money to parchase them) please be in touch: dandelion778@yahoo.com </span><br />
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Here are some images of lip balms, salves, tinctures, and teas sent to No More Deaths/No Más Muertes in the past.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1545082712388231/1551499678413201" style="font-weight: bold;">Feel Good, Look Good Spaahh! : Remedios Fundraiser!</a> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism 252 Main St, Montpelier, Vermont </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Treat yourself in solidarity! Support grassroot herbal remedies for the migrant farm worker community in VT. Come enjoy Massage, Footbaths, Tarot reading, Herbal Teas, Flower Essences, Cupping, Facials, and Haircuts! <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/RemediosVt">Remedios VT </a></b>is a solidarity-not-charity project getting seedlings and herbal remedies to members of the migrant farm worker community in VT. (Want to support Remedios, but can't join us for the event? You can contact/send a Paypal donation to: dandelion778@yahoo.com Thanks! Gracias! ) </span><br />
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Also, the <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/stonecabin?fref=ts">Stone Cabin Collective</a></b> is organizing their biannual free clinic for the community members at Black Mesa, resisting colonization, racismo, and forced relocation by the US government and Peabody Coal Co. (more info about the resistance <b><a href="http://supportblackmesa.org/">here</a></b>) If you have the following dried herbs to donate, please contact: Danny at danieller@vtherbcenter.org Guidelines for donations (how to harvest/dry/package, etc) are listed <b><a href="http://radherbsw.wordpress.com/2014/01/22/stone-cabin-wellness-collective-wish-list-2014/">here</a></b>. </span><br />
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dana l woodruffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862957097090009968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8107309531239268875.post-59348010363977838262014-09-01T16:27:00.000-04:002014-09-11T23:48:30.388-04:00Late Summer Dandelioness Herbals Community Health Update<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l6AlnmL4iXs/VATQybz4Q1I/AAAAAAAACg8/pZwIpSaA2x4/s1600/Picture%2B7253.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-l6AlnmL4iXs/VATQybz4Q1I/AAAAAAAACg8/pZwIpSaA2x4/s1600/Picture%2B7253.jpg" height="320" width="240" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Happy Late Summer!</b> I love this time of year, with all the abundant harvests of food </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">medicine. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Sorting through what we want to and can accomplish, and letting go </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">of the rest. Trusting that what we haven't harvested ourselves will be gathered </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">by others in the community who we can trade with or buy from. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It feels like an exhale, especially once the first hard frosts arrives - </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">what's done is done.</span><br />
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</span><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0vodLy25OeU/VATQ_w6zPKI/AAAAAAAAChQ/SPYrtmqUn54/s1600/Picture%2B7343.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0vodLy25OeU/VATQ_w6zPKI/AAAAAAAAChQ/SPYrtmqUn54/s1600/Picture%2B7343.jpg" height="320" width="240" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">While the days grow shorter and the nights grow longer, we may feel anxiety about moving </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">into the colder months. With back to school time, autumn approaching, the leaves </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">changing, moving into the time of honoring our ancestors, there's a lot of transition all </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">around us. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And there are events in our communities and beyond to both celebrate and </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">mourn. The people of Palestine, communities of color in the US, and many other </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">communities are under attack. And all over the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">world people are organizing within their </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">communities and beyond to work for justice.</span><br />
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Just today, allies across Vermont gathered names and went to local and state law enforcement to build on the work of those standing up in Ferguson, Missouri and the ongoing work of Migrant Justice and other grassroots organizations calling for police accountability and an end to racial profiling.</span><br />
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Movements for Justice and herbal remedies and education are completely interconnected and can deeply nourish each other. This past week herbalists in C.VT sent herbal remedies to those participating in the <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/620873174696015/?fref=ts">Black Life Matters Ride</a></b>. As we harvest from garden plots, fields, and forests, may we share the abundance with community health projects/clinics and organizations near and far doing the day to day work to bring about true change in a sustainable way. </span><br />
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Donation from Central Vermont herbalists for the<b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/620873174696015/?fref=ts"> Black Life Matters Ride</a></b> to Ferguson, MO. <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/BlackLivesMatter?fref=ts">Black Lives Matter!</a></b></span><br />
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-<b>Community Self-Care: Nourishing our Nervous Systems for the Long Haul </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">three-week work/play Thurs evenings Sept 11th, 18th, 25th 5:30-8pm at the Fire Dept in Plainfield, VT. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">More info below.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-<b>Plainfield Farmers Market </b>every Friday 4-7pm until Oct in the village. More info <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/PlainfieldFarmersMarket?fref=ts">here</a></b>. Dandelioness Herbals vends most weeks, bringing herbal elixirs, salves, and some special treats not available on the <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/DandelionessHerbals">online shop</a></b>, such as aphrodisiacs, Kitties for Equality! catnip and valerian double trouble cat toys, and crocheted Roses. Custom orders can be brought to market for pickup.</span><br />
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Check out my<b> <a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2014/06/misadventures-in-container-gardening.html">(Mis)Adventures in Container Gardening: Creative Growing & Herbal Disasters</a>!</b></span><br />
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And it's that time of year again! My friend from <b><a href="http://wakerobinbotanicals.com/">Wake Robin Botanicals</a> </b>and I just brewed up an amazing, spontaneous, nourishing syrup with roots & mushrooms & flowers & leaves. Wanna make your own syrup for immune support, to build your iron, to get the tonic herbs</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> you want to take daily? Check out </span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2011/02/elderberry-and-other-syrup-recipes.html">Elderberry (and other) Syrup Recipes</a></b><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9i1bOGHF5Yw/VATiKSQ1y8I/AAAAAAAACik/eD2Lnam_cWQ/s1600/Picture%2B7130.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9i1bOGHF5Yw/VATiKSQ1y8I/AAAAAAAACik/eD2Lnam_cWQ/s1600/Picture%2B7130.jpg" height="150" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With the gorgeous growing season in full-swing, I love to photograph medicinal plants - trees, herbs, flowers. You can check out photos in these two n</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ew albums, which you don't have to be part of Facebooklandia to view!</span><br />
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-<b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/190175326/stay-ready-nourishing-elixir-for">Stay Ready! nourishing elixir for thoughtful clarity</a> </b>helps us keep on top of our game, supports us through deadlines and actions, and helps us integrate information and experiences. Great gift for students, community organizers, writers, and those who move between worlds and communities, cross-pollinating and building bridges in the spirit of solidarity. Also available in the <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/186971650/green-tech-herbal-support-kit-for?ref=shop_home_active_22">Green Tech: Herbal Support Kit for Students, Activists/Organizers, & Writers kit</a></b> </span><br />
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<b>-<a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/192621336/relaxation-in-a-bottle-choose-your-own">Relaxation in a Bottle</a></b> Choose Your Own Custom Tincture /Elixir to Relieve Stress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>Community Self-Care: Nourishing our Nervous Systems for the Long Haul</b></span><br />
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Feeling frazzled? Wound up? Burnt out? Come replenish and rejuvenate in this 3-week work/playshop. We will nourish our nervous systems with simple (and free/affordable) self-care practices and make calming remedies collectively to bring home and share with our loved ones and communities. Each class will focus on three common abundant herbs that grow here, either in the wild or in the garden.</span><br />
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This is a hands-on class with lots of show and tell (& taste and tell!) and learning directly from the plants. And each other. We will focus on practical ways that we can integrate relaxing herbs both internally and externally into our everyday lives. While created with caregivers, gardeners, and community organizers in mind, all experience levels and backgrounds are welcome.</span><br />
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Space is limited. Please pre-register by contacting dandelion778@yahoo.com or 802-454-0102. Accessibility: There are 3 steps in front of the building and 4 steps inside.</span><br />
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The 3-week series is $45-90 sliding scale ($15-30 per class, according to what you are able to pay). If you’re interested in participating, but the cost is out of reach, please be in touch. Please be in touch with any questions. Facebook event page <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/695867517173864/?fref=ts">here</a></b>. </span><br />
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<b style="font-size: x-large;">Feel Good, Look Good Spaahh! : Remedios Fundraiser!</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sat Oct 4th 11am-5pm (doors close at 4pm)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Support grassroot herbal remedies for the migrant farm worker community in VT. Come to the Feel Good, Look Good Spaahhh with Massage, Footbaths, Tarot reading, Herbal Teas, Flower Essences, Cupping, Facials, and Haircuts!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/RemediosVt">Remedios VT</a></b> is a solidarity-not-charity project getting seedlings and herbal remedies to members of the migrant farm worker community in VT.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(Want to support Remedios, but can't join us for the event? You can contact/send a Paypal donation to: dandelion778@yahoo.com Thanks! Gracias! )</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">More updates about this event and others will be added to the Dandelioness Herbals blog's <b><a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/p/workshop-event-calender.html">Workshop and Events Calender </a></b>and <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/DandelionessHerbals">Facebook page.</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1. Late summer harvest! With Red Raspberry leaf, Goldenrod, Yarrow, Blueberries, and St. Johnswort. 2. St. Johnswort oil for <a href="http://forms.nomoredeaths.org/home-2/" style="font-weight: bold;">No More Deaths/No Más Muertes</a> turns into Yarrow, Chamomile, Goldenrod, St. J oil for sore muscles, bruises, and minor wounds. 3. + 4. Donation from Central VT herbalists for the<b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/620873174696015/?fref=ts"> Black Life Matters Ride</a></b> to Ferguson, MO. 5. Crocheted Roses 6. Kitties for Equality! catnip and valerian double trouble cat toys 7. <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/201950090/immune-health-trio-elderberry-ginger">Elderberry Ginger, whole Echinacea, & Tulsi Elixir Immune Health Trio</a> </b> 8. <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.667647389982022.1073741830.339224689490962&type=3">Plant Besties:</a></b> Calendula & Heartsease Pansy/Johnny-Jump-Up 9. Abundant harvest. Red Raspberry, Lavender, Lavender Bee Balm, Sage, Yarrow, Goldenrod, and Chamomile. 10. Check out those pollen-icious saddlebags! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My most recent trip to Ireland really inspired me to explore container gardens. In previous years I'd been blessed with access to home gardens and/or a community garden plot, being able to plant directly in the ground. However I had to move during the growing season that year and was sad about my community garden plot being far enough away that I often did not get there for many days at a time. Also, not having that daily checking-in on the plants I was cultivating felt ungrounding, especially during housing transition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It's said that the best fertilizer is the farmer's footsteps. And weather you start plants from seeds or they come to you bigger, being able to witness their day to day growth is really special and a true education that can't be taught in a classroom or through books. (Not to mention how much easier tending/weeding is when it can be done little by little, rather than during marathon gardening sessions that can feel overwhelming!) Witnessing my friends' creativity while visiting them in Ireland inspired me to begin a container garden on my balcony upon my return, so that whenever I finally found my next home*space, I could bring my beloved plants with me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I've documented some of the creative ideas, thriving plants, and botanical disasters for our viewing pleasures. I will probably continue adding tips, lessons, and photos to this post, so feel free to check in on it again later and/or share comments below. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Disclaimer</i>: I am not a "master" gardener. (I wince at the historically loaded term "master" and would never claim to be an authority in that way, especially in terms plants, as I expect to spend my whole lifetime getting to know them better.) I am a plant-lover that has a tendency to wing it and am a perpetual optimist, encouraging others that it's not to late to transplant seedlings well into the summer, etc. I believe in working with what you've got, DIY/DIT (do-it-yourself/do-it-together)-style and on the cheap. I plant with care and say "good luck to you" to the seed(ling)s I sow, give them good compost, water, and sometimes brews of chamomile or seaweed, but rarely do I coddle them at all. Check out some books in your local library/bookshop or online resources if you're interested in creating raised beds that are accessible for folks with physical limitations, vertical herb gardens, and more!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Left: Sunflowers growing from a basket-container in an outdoor space converted into a pantry/growing space. Note the gorgeous design of the glass in the door! Love those.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Right: A set of drawers converted into a garden for Calendula and other plants. Covered with plastic mesh to keep out lil critters. Both photos from Kinvarra, Co.Galway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Above: Container gardens at a hotel in Limerick, designed by my friend Val. Check out her food blog <b><a href="http://www.valskitchen.com/">Val's Kitchen</a></b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">More <b><a href="http://www.valskitchen.com/">Val's </a></b>garden: using vertical space to grow lots of plants. Love this paddle with notches that she got at the farmer's market - holding 4 pots of strawberry plants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Above: Vibrant azul/azure pots of greens, flowers, scallions, and more by the sea in Cork.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Above: So when I returned, I gathered some pots and started growing on the porch! Looking for pots? Check with local landscapers, the recycle center/dump, put a note up at work or around your neighborhood, let your friends know, etc. A lot of people are happy to pass containers on! Also, sometimes you can find them up for grabs on the side of the road or at yard sales, or you can create holes in the bottom of yogurt containers and such. No need to go and spend lots of money buying new containers. While in general I prefer natural materials, I prefer plastic containers over clay pots for plants, as they hold water better and require less watering.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then that same day, I found a big, low, sturdy table for free on the side of the road. Planting the seedlings, Take 2! Actually, when the mini-greenhouse collapsed all but two of the containers miraculously stayed in tact, so I apologized to the seeds for their rough start and moved them to their safer location.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Above: Trellising the peas. Wait, what's growing in the peas?! Oh, dang it! Lesson learned: if you put your containers under the bird feeder, things such as this can happen. Especially if the primary visitors are grackles that only seem to want the black sunflower seed and send all other seeds down into said containers. Overall, germination for the seeds I planted was great. Germination for the seeds that the grackles planted was outstanding!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Above: Whether planting in containers, or a garden in the ground, I like putting the plants that you're going to be harvesting closer to you/the kitchen and making them easier to get to. ie. In a garden, there are certain crops that are generally harvested once or just a few times throughout the season (Corn, Garlic, Pole Beans, Winter Squash), while there are others that are harvested much more often (Chamomile, Cilantro, Greens). Also, I've found that even if there is a whole row of Basil in the garden not so far away, having a pot of Basil right close on my porch or walkway means I'll harvest it more often and enjoy my summer more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Above: I thought that perhaps the popsicle-stick fortress I constructed for the Catnip plant would protect it from the neighborhood kitties. I was wrong. However, a friend successfully grew Catnip in their garden by surrounding it with prickly Milk Thistle plants, keeping both of her two cats out. When I planted two Catnip plants in a home garden, I successfully communicated to the neighbor cat that one was for him. The other was for me. I pointed and explained over and over one day. After that day, I would find "his" Catnip covered in his golden and white hairs and well-loved (read: crushed, and perpetually bouncing back). Mine was left to grow and for me to harvest. Thanks, kitty.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Above: I usually prefer growing edible/medicinal plants because they are so versatile and beautiful, but near to houses that may have lead paint, I prefer to grow flowers. Just for pretty. Or spiritual protection. Or to use in foot baths. Or for the butterflies and bees to enjoy. I think it's also good medicine for workaholic, efficiency-oriented people to welcome some just-for-the-beauty-of-it-in-the-present-moment into our lives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Light: Note the leeeeeeeaning-over Sunflower. The plants in my front yard receive very little sun. I have wanted Marigolds, Zinnias, and other sun-loving plants nearby, so I've planted them there. Some of them, the Sunflowers in particular, have not thrived in those conditions. Over the years, seeds and transplants have found their way into the soil and now the beds hold Alchemilla (Lady's Mantle), Yarrow, and Feverfew, all plants that can handle some shade. While we can build the soil and make other changes to accommodate the plants we want in a certain place, I think there's a powerful lesson in strategy/energy in learning to work with the conditions that exist (soil, light, rainfall, etc) and find the plants that you love that will thrive there. I could have a whole row of leaning-over-almost-touching-the-ground Sunflowers, or I can have a thriving patch of Yarrow, blessing my home*space with its protective energy. I could plant Zinnias and Cleomes, which usually become leggy for lack of sun, or I could appreciate the lush, early-spring Alchemilla (Lady's Mantle) leaves unfurling and the silvery, transformative dew drops that gather in them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">Space: What do you have for growing space - a Walkway? Fire escape? Yard? Fence? Notice what you have around you (or would like to create), and investigate what could grow there. Morning glories could cover your side of the fence and reseeds itself year after year. Tulsi/Sacred Basil and other types of Basils do well in containers and provide incredibly flavorful food and medicine through the growing season. The plant I have grown since I was a teen, even if I had only a tiny patch of ground or a few containers is Calendula</span><span style="font-family: "georgia";">. Calendula blossoms are food, medicine, and beautyfull. (The seeds are sometimes available in my online shop <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/116646314/calendula-seeds-grow-your-own-beautiful?ref=shop_home_active_26">here</a></b>.) You don't need to have a million plants or tons of space or have to buy all kinds of composts and minerals, focus on what you love and what you've got and nourish that!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Above: I love that in my village there are guerrilla gardening faeries that tuck plants along common ground.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the kitchen: Even without any outdoor planting space, we can still have vital plants right close to us, in our homes. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I like (re-)sprouting food to have fresh food in winter or just to be thrifty, any time of year. When I chop up scallions (aka green onions), instead of composting the octopus-y roots, I either put them in water or in a pot of soil. They don't grow back as strong, but if you're just looking for some chive-y flavor, here you go:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was given one of these shapely glass containers to "force" bulbs in late winter/early spring. I suppose this term is used because it's kinda pushy to "force" plants long before any bulbs have pushed up through the thawing earth outside. I prefer to use the word "encourage." Even (or especially) if it's a bit early, it is quite amazing to witness the growth of the green sprout, watch the development of the roots, and then experience the total luxury of fragrant blossoms long before outdoor plants bloom. (I was so busy swooning over the paperwhite blossoms that I forgot to photograph them!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Hooray for workers rights! Universal health care! Anti-biased policing policies! And all the cross-pollinating happening between individuals and organizations on May Day and everyday, across communities and across borders! May we all channel the powerful energy of spring into fabulous projects, good medicine, and gorgeous art!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><b>In this Update</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>-Report Backs</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>-Dandelioness Herbals Remedies: </b>Green Tech, Fabulous To Go, Activist Self-Care Kit, & </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Spring Tonic</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>-Recent/Spring Dandelioness Herbals Blog Posts: </b>Penquins, Self-Care, Creating </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Herbal/Emotional Support at Marches and Demonstrations</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>-Upcoming Teaching /Events: </b>Decolonizing Herbalism, Empowering Herbalists (aka </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Intro the Herbalism for Social Justice), Herbalists Without Borders, and more!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">REPORT BACKS</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was so happy to part of the<b><a href="http://migrantjustice.net/"> Migrant Justice</a></b>/Vermont contingent at the <b>Not One More! Stop the Deportations</b> march and <span style="text-align: center;">rally in Boston, MA on April 17th, protesting the Obama administration's deportation of </span><b style="text-align: center;">over 2 million of our community members and loved ones.</b><span style="text-align: center;"> 19 community members – both undocumented and documented -participated in a civil disobedience and were arrested, while throngs of supports marched for hours. Those locked up at the detention center also showed their support through the bars/windows. There are videos of this event posted </span><b style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2014/04/arnica-drops-and-lavender-spray.html">here</a></b><span style="text-align: center;">, and photos posted </span><b style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3503751273358.2164003.1259022579&type=1&l=c1a44e8aba">here</a></b><span style="text-align: center;">. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was also really glad to attend the annual <b>Reproductive Justice conference </b>in early April. I attended fabulous workshops: <i>The Revolution Starts with Me!: Recipes, Remedies, Rituals, & Resources for Activist Self Care</i> with Adaku Utah and Nicole Clark (check out their websites, <b><a href="http://www.soularbliss.com/">SouLar Bliss </a> </b>and <b><a href="http://www.nicoleclarkconsulting.com/">Nicole Clark Consulting</a></b>), <i>The Politics of Adoption: Race, Identity, and Our Families' Lives </i>about transracial and transnational adoption (check out <b><a href="http://landofgazillionadoptees.com/">Land of Gazillion Adoptees</a></b>), and a workshop on supporting kids and caregivers, co-facilitated by a co-author of the book: <b><a href="http://dontleaveyourfriendsbehind.blogspot.com/">Don't Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities</a>.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">...also at this conference <a href="http://wakerobinbotanicals.com/">Wake Robin Botanicals</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DandelionessHerbals?fref=ts">Dandelioness Herbals</a> unveiled their latest three fabulous collaborations, which are now available at…</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">DANDELIONESS HERBALS' ONLINE ETSY SHOP</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-<b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/184180594/activist-self-care-kit-supporting-change?ref=shop_home_active_3">Activist Self-Care Kit: Supporting Change Makers for the Long Haul</a> </b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/DandelionessHerbals?fref=ts">Dandelioness Herbals</a>, <a href="http://wakerobinbotanicals.com/">Wake Robin Botanicals</a>, and <b><a href="http://www.mandalabotanicalsvt.com/">Mandala Botanicals</a></b> have teamed up to offer the following three herbals: Speak Truth! Throat Spray, Sacred Basil Glycerite, & Solidarity Salve</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-<b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/186971650/green-tech-herbal-support-kit-for?ref=related-1">Green Tech: Herbal Support Kit for Students, Activists/Organizers, & Writers</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Many of us feel the demands of long hours using technologies that can be draining or wearing on our bodies, both physically and energetically. These remedies support us to not only function, but to thrive while we meet demands and deadlines feeling focused and collected: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Sharp Thoughts Herbal Tea, Stay Ready! nourishing elixir, Ache Relief Salve, and Calendula Violet Eye Serum. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-<b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/186978153/fabulousness-to-go-helping-our-real?ref=related-0">Fabulousness To Go: Helping our real fabulous nature shine through</a></b> with Brilliant Lip Shimmer, Fancy Glitter Crème, Fabulous Transformation Flower Essence, Fabulousness In A Bottle. This basket contains all kinds of flower-mermaid-unicorn-rainbow-hippocamp-and-kitten magic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Also <b>NEW</b>: <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/188105549/spring-tonic-burdock-dandelion-and?ref=listing-shop-header-0">Spring Tonic</a></b> - a blend of fresh roots, leaf, and sap that provides nourishing support during the transition from winter to spring. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">RECENT/SPRING DANDELIONESS HERBALS BLOG POSTS</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-<b><a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2014/04/arnica-drops-and-lavender-spray.html">Arnica drops and Lavender Spray: Creating Herbal/Emotional Support at Marches and Demonstrations</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-<b><a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2014/03/hope-because-sometimes-we-need-some.html">Hope! Because Sometimes We Need Some Help: another Wake Robin Botanicals and Dandelioness Herbals collaboration</a> </b>penguins, poetry, & dance routines</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-<b><a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2011/10/sweet-truth-about-bitters.html">The Sweet Truth About Bitters</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-<b><a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2011/05/dandelions-are-here.html">The Dandelions Are Here!!</a> </b>the whole plant is medicinal - flower, leaf, root, and sap!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-<b><a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2014/03/st-patrick-solidarity_17.html">St. Patrick's Solidarity</a> </b> Mexico/Ireland solidarity!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-<b><a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2014/02/in-case-of-emotional-emergency-self.html">In Case of (emotional) Emergency: self-care form to fill out</a> </b>to fill out when you’re feeling grounded, supported, calm, inspired, etc. to read when you’re not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Sandra Lory of Mandala Botanicals and I will be teaching <b>'Decolonizing Herbalism, Empowering Herbalists' </b>(aka Intro the Herbalism for Social Justice) at the following event, as well as presenting in the evening about Herbalists Without Borders projects:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>URBAN MOONSHINE HERBAL CONFERENCE </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Sat May 24th 2014, Coach Barn at Shelburne Farms, Shelburne, VT </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Inspiring day of herbal classes, walks, talks, & connections, followed by an evening including fresh dinner fare, music, cocktails, dancing, & festivities! We are enthused to offer classes from wonderful teachers: 7 Song, Mary Bove, Guido Mase, Larken Bunce, Betzy Bancroft, Jeff Carpenter, Melanie Carpenter, Sandra Lory, Brendan Kelly, Megan Godfrey, Leyla Bringas, Mary Niles, and many more to be announced!<b> One hundred percent of the proceeds will benefit the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism's community herbal clinics. </b>More info to come <b><a href="http://www.urbanmoonshine.com/conference/">here</a></b>. Facebook event page <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/234183840118776/?fref=ts">here</a>.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>-<a href="https://www.facebook.com/PlainfieldFarmersMarket?fref=ts">The Plainfield Farmer’s Market </a></b>will be starting up in a few weeks, so you can visit the Dandelioness Herbals booth to taste remedies, purchase products, and chat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>-Interested in growing medicinal herbs for community health projects?</b> Members of Herbalists Without Borders are coordinating the growing of medicinal plants to distribute via community health projects near and far. Interested in growing herbs for teas, salves, etc? Please be in touch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-I’m excited about hosting <b>herbal medicine making days for community empowerment </b>during the growing season, when the plants are most vital. Learn to harvest in a good way, learn/share medicine-making skills, create remedies for community health projects, and create a kit to take back to our homes/communities. All experience levels welcome. If you have questions or ideas for venues, please be in touch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Take care,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Please visit the <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/DandelionessHerbals?fref=ts">Dandelioness Herbals Facebook page</a></b> for info about upcoming events, photos of medicinal herbs, blog posts, links to good projects/resources, and more!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="http://migrantjustice.net/">Migrant Justice </a></b>represents! * <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/184180594/activist-self-care-kit-supporting-change?ref=shop_home_active_3">Activist Self-Care Kit: Supporting Change Makers for the Long Haul</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Participants of the civil disobedience at the <b><a href="http://www.notonemoredeportation.com/2014/04/17/suffolkdetentioncenter/">Not One More Deportation! Boston Rally</a> *</b> As we march by the detention center, dandelion stays rooted beside us, embodying persistence and resistance, sending forth its seeds across borders and prison walls.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">They send their love and support through the glass and prison bars. To our comrades, brothers, fathers, cousins, husbands, grandsons, friends: you are not forgotten! * </span><b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/186971650/green-tech-herbal-support-kit-for?ref=related-1"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Green Tech: Herbal Support Kit for Students, Activists/Organizers, & Writers</span></a></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Basket full of dandelion blossoms</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Celebrating after the rally! We Did It Before, We'll Do It Again! Power to the People! * Dandelion roots * <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/186978153/fabulousness-to-go-helping-our-real?ref=related-0">Fabulousness To Go: Helping our real fabulous nature shine through</a></b> </span>
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This event was really inspiring for me. <b>Children, babies, youth, adults, and elders j</b><b>oined together for hours outside the Suffolk County detention center in Boston in the forceful wind in solidarity with organizations and families all over the US and beyond. </b>President Obama has deported over 2 million people during his presidency, and he continues to deport 1,100 people every single day. These unjust policies and practices are separating families and communities. Millions of people - many of whom do the work that makes this nation function - are living in the shadows, forced to live in fear. Children are afraid that their parent(s) won't be there when they come home from school because they may have been pulled over on their way home from work in a routine traffic stop that leads to them being detained. Partners are afraid that their families will be split apart if one is detained and deported. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Victims, witnesses, and family members are afraid to call the police in domestic violence situations and other emergencies for fear of being arrested and deported.</span><br />
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I heard about this protest many weeks before, but didn't know that allies/accomplices were welcome alongside undocumented activists until just days before. <b>My first thought: food! The second: herbal first aid kit!</b></span><br />
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With little time between work shifts, I pulled out my street medic kit to take stock. I wish I had time to make a patch that said "Remedies/Remedios" (remedies in Spanish) with a green leaf. But alas, I ended up bringing my pack with a red cross and 'Street Medic' sign on it. I contacted an event organizer, to be sure that it was okay to bring some first aid supplies and herbal remedies, and to see if there was going to be a planned street medic/health care presence that I could connect with. There wasn't, but she gave me the green light to offer remedies to folks, so I started gathering the bits and pieces for my kit. I was a bit nervous that folks would see the street medic sign and red cross and think I was an EMT or had other such medical training beyond my scope (I'm a community herbalist with some street medic training - see <a href="http://www.mountainsongexpeditions.com/">Mountainsong Expedition's</a><b> </b>classes). <b>It felt important, though, to bring along some remedies for people's emotional health.</b></span><br />
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<b>Rallies can be intense.</b> Just having a large group of people together for any reason can create a lot of energy that can be overwhelming, especially to those of us who are sensitive to the energies of people and places. A large group coming together specifically to speak out and take action against injustices can bring up a lot of different emotions. Gathering in front of a detention center, especially with heavy police presence, can be triggering for many, even for those who themselves have not been detained or who don't have loved ones who have been or who currently are locked up. Bearing witness to the personal stories of the daily wearing stress of the ever-constant threat of deportation many families face can be painful. Listening to how deportations tear families apart is heartbreaking. Acknowledging this and supporting each other to feel and express these emotions (if they want or can) can help create a caring, supportive culture at events. </span><br />
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<b>I wanted to bring remedies that would help create emotional support for those participating in the day's events - whether they were participating in the civil disobedience, joining in the march, or showing support from the sidelines. </b> I packed up some basic first aid supplies - bandaids, gauze bandage, a cool pack, gloves (to protect myself and others in case there were open wounds, blood, or other body substances present-very important to remember!), samples of organic pads and tampons (to stanch bleeding and apply pressure to wounds, or in case someone has their period), sunscreen, benadryl and ibuprofen. (Sometimes people feel sheepish when telling herbalists that they want some Advil or need to take antibiotics. Yes, herbs are incredibly powerful and healing, but this does not mean that mainstream/allopathic medicine doesn't have its place. No judgement - there's space for all kinds of remedies and all kinds of healing modalities. It's both/and, not either/or!)</span><br />
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I brought some <b>Ginger chews</b> to settle the stomach if someone is feeling nauseous or car-sick. I also included pouches of <b>Yarrow </b>leaf and flower (to chew and apply to open wound to stop bleeding), <b>Plantain </b>leaf (<i>Plantago</i>, not the banana-like fruit - to chew up and apply to skin to draw out splinters, stingers, even poison!), <b>Goldenseal </b>root powder (cultivated - not wildcrafted, as this plant is at risk - I have rarely used this, but it's helpful if someone has intense diarrhea and becoming dehydrated) and<b> Slippery Elm</b> bark powder (to add to water to soothe irritation in the throat or digestive tract, please use cultivated as it's at-risk, or you can use Marshmallow root instead). I brought a few capsules of <b>Activated Charcoal</b> for food poisoning or chemical exposure. <b>Chamomile </b>is such a fabulous herb and familiar to many people - I brought it in tea bags for easy use. As a tea it's anti-spasmodic for muscle or menstrual cramps, calming to the nervous system, and soothing to the digestive system. When it's in a tea bag it can also be moistened to apply to irritated eyes or irritated/inflamed skin. We didn't have hot water at the march for tea, but many fast food restaurants and gas stations have hot water you can use.</span><br />
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I brought remedies that I make such as: <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/94737191/global-citizen-calendula-and-yarrow-all?ref=shop_home_active_8">Global Citizen</a></b> herbal first aid salve and <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/487844817/tigress-balm-warming-herbal-muscle-rub">Tigress Balm</a></b> warming muscle rub, <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/93843795/speak-truth-throat-spray-antiviral?ref=shop_home_active_16">Speak Truth! Throat Spray</a> </b>dedicated to whistleblowers and truth-tellers, <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/91666950/crampease-blend-to-ease-menstrual-cramps?ref=shop_home_active_21">Crampease </a></b>blend for menstrual cramps, <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/97859837/calm-the-rage-elixir-to-cool-hot?ref=shop_home_active_3">Calm the Rage </a></b>to cool hot emotions, <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/98023421/elderberry-ginger-elixir-for-immune?ref=shop_home_active_14">Elderberry Ginger Elixir </a></b>for immune support, and <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/186236426/heart-elixir-remedy-to-open-heal-and?ref=listing-shop-header-0">Heart Elixir </a></b>for emotional support. I often carry <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/93287982/yarrow-flower-essence-clear-strong?ref=shop_home_active_9">Yarrow flower essence</a></b> with me and include it in many of my remedies for immune support, relaxation, and emotional support, as it creates clear, strong boundaries and energetic protection. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Many of these remedies are available at my <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/DandelionessHerbals">Dandelioness Herbals online Etsy shop</a> </b>and the listings contain information about the ingredients. I'd be happy to co-create an herbal remedy kit if you'd like. If you would like to make your own remedies, there is a resource list at the bottom of this post with links to various pages on herbal medicine-making. </span><br />
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The tinctures, elixirs, and throat spray I brought were all alcohol-based and for internal use. They're convenient for travel and demonstration-situations as they are ready to take, not requiring hot water or other such supplies/preparation, but not everyone may feel comfortable taking them. They may be on medications that may interact negatively with certain herbs, they may not want any alcohol, or they may not want to ingest something (especially if given to them from a stranger). If folks would prefer a non-alcohol remedy, you can make or buy herbal extracts that are made with glycerine, vinegar, or a vinegar/honey blend (this is called an oxymel). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In case folks didn't want to take a remedy internally, I wanted to create some external remedies to bring as well. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I made a <b>relaxing, grounding spray</b> with homemade Rose and Lavender flower water (hydrosol, instructions <b><a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2013/08/do-it-yourself-hydrosols-making-and.html">here</a></b>), Lavender and Chamomile essential oils, and homemade Corn and Yarrow flower essences. I wanted a mist that could be sprayed around or on people who wanted to shift the energy of the event a bit, center, to create a bit of calm if need be. I love that Rose, Lavender, and Chamomile are all flowers that are familiar to many peoples and cultures. I added the Corn flower essence to help stay grounded, especially in an urban environment, and the <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/93287982/yarrow-flower-essence-clear-strong?ref=shop_home_active_17">Yarrow flower essences</a></b> to help create an energetic shield/clear boundaries. I chose <b>Chamomile (Manzanilla) </b>and <b>Corn (Maiz)</b> flower essences as I knew a lot of the people attending the rally are from Latin American countries/cultures where these are common plants that are not only used as food and remedies, but also have spiritual significance. If there are plants with ancestral ties ~ from your own ancestry and/or from those who are receiving the remedies ~ that you can incorporate into your first aid kit, the medicine will be all the stronger for it. </span><br />
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Someone asked me to take a photo of her and her friend with a sign, in front of the detention center. She gave me her camera to take the photo and told me the reason she wanted a photo here was because her husband had been detained in this very facility. He was deported and now she is alone raising their four children. I asked if she wanted some relaxing spray and she said yes. <b>A small gesture, but hopefully a comforting one. </b> I also showed the kids the spray and they wanted me to mist it on them and they liked it. (Just make sure to check in with their grownups and tell folks to close their eyes and mouth before misting!)</span><br />
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With children in mind, I wanted to bring something fun for the long drive and the rally. I figured Legos would be a nightmare and my board games were too big. So I made some <b>aromatherapy bubbles </b>by adding a few drops of pure Sweet Orange essential oil and Yarrow flower essence to the bubble container, and put a rainbow sticker on it for fun. They were a pretty big hit. (Just try to guide young kids from inadvertently blowing bubble-soap into their siblings eyes when blowing really hard!) I brought an extra bottle of bubbles in case I wanted to send it home with a kid (or grownup!) who was having a hard time and needed some cheering up. The kids I went with also brought some little matchbox cars which they shared with other kids there. </span><br />
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Which reminds me - <b>snacks and water!!</b>! When I was caring for the kids on the sidelines at the beginning of the rally, I noticed a little girl in a stroller that looked upset. She started to cry. Her mom was near, but caring for her little brother and so my 3 and 5 year old friends and I helped cheer her up. We stood near her in a line to shield her from the wind, in case she was crying because she was cold. A passing protester gave us a bag of chips (it was unopened and I checked in with the parent) and the kids all opened their mouths to be fed! I wasn't sure if they wanted to keep their fingers warm in their coat pockets on this wicked windy day, or if they were feeling like baby birds. I was happy to feed the baby-bird-protesters. My friend then shared her gorp (good old raisin and peanuts - with m&m's) with them. Then the 5 year old started rolling his little car on top of the little girl's head. By then she had stopped crying and they were playing together.</span><br />
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After that, I found someone to watch the kids so I could get closer to the civil disobedience and document it. After I captured the scene with some photos, my friend who was participating in the action motioned to me for water. Of course! They're out in the elements, singing and chanting and shouting, surrounded by armed law enforcement officers. And if they're taken into custody, who knows if they'll have any access to food or water. They definitely needed some water. Luckily I had in my pack a <b>sports bottle</b> so that folks could squeeze water into their mouth without spreading germs. It got passed around. Then my friend shared the rest of her gorp with the protesters. <b>Note to self: always bring more water and snacks </b>- for kids, protesters, folks who may get low blood sugar, anyone really! (I did bring plenty of food and fluids for myself, knowing that I cannot be a calm, supporting presence for others if I'm hungry and ungrounded. Next time I'll bring more easy-to-share snacks.)</span><br />
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<br />After those participating in the civil disobedience were arrested, many officers in full riot gear appeared, facing us with batons drawn. There was a fence behind us and though I felt the safety of numbers and a supportive collective of people, literally having your back up against a fence with police threatening violence (despite our entirely peaceful presence) can be very triggering for many reasons. My first thought was for the children, elders, and folks with disabilities who may not be able to disperse quickly if need be. Fortunately they were just trying to intimidate us and didn't charge. But it's good to keep in mind at and before such events that this situation may come up and how it can affect people (ourselves included) so that we can take care of each other.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We marched to the back side of the detention center to let those detained out of view of the demonstration know that we were there, and that they are not forgotten. We stood on a bridge beside traffic and held signs, sang, and chanted. Community members locked up on the inside gathered at the windows and held up signs. We held up signs facing them as well as towards the road behind us so that those passing by knew why we were there. We received many waves, honks, and smiles from drivers and passengers. I like taking this role at events - being on the fringes and interacting with people passing by, even if the people are in moving vehicles. Sometimes people are interested in knowing what's going on, but may feel shy or intimidated by a large group. In these situations, I feel aware of my privilege and a good way to use it strategically seems to be to reach out to people by making a sign visible, greeting them, and engaging them in conversation if they seem interested. Being an English-speaking, white cisgender woman with US citizenship, I feel like I can use this privilege to be a bridge to other people with privilege who may not understand how their/our liberation is connected with the liberation of communities of color, queer, transgender and gender variant folks, youth, and </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">other groups most impacted by systematic oppression. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As we left the bridge, I realized my throat was sore from hours of singing and chanting. We had raised our voices strong and loud. For many hours. I pulled out my <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/93843795/speak-truth-throat-spray-antiviral?ref=shop_home_active_17">Speak Truth! Throat Spray</a></b> and the soothing herb and honey blend was just what my raspy throat needed. I brought the remedy to those with bullhorns (as well as others), imagining that their throats may have been even more sore than mine. Many accepted and appreciated the remedy.</span><br />
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Someone needed a bandaid. Someone else needed some herbal first aid salve for skin irritation. No major medical situations. <b>Still, bringing that herbal first aid kit and checking in with folks that looked stressed or cold or thirsty helped contribute to a culture of self-care and community-care.</b></span><br />
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<br />When I got home that night, like many others, I called the jails to call for the release of our friends who'd been arrested for participating in the civil disobedience. I was glad to hear, just before I crawled into bed exhausted from the day, that they had all just been released and in <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Wak5FZU-9U">were in good spirits</a></b>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The next morning I heard from a friend who the arresting officers had put in too-tight zip tie police cuffs. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Aye! Why hadn't I thought of that?! </b> Whether folks resist arrest or not, this is a common occurrence. I wish I had left my <b>Arnica drops</b> with someone who was greeting the activists upon their release from jail. I made the drops by infusing the fresh flowers from my garden in brandy and then homeopathically diluting it, to be used both internally and externally. Be sure not to take Arnica tea/tincture internally at full strength! Just one drop of the diluted tincture in water is plenty. Or you can buy homeopathic Arnica at a Coop or natural food store - usually in little blue tubes. Get 5 Arnica tablets into the cap and, without touching them, place them under your tongue to dissolve. Wait a few minutes before drinking water or eating. Arnica drops can also be massaged into bruises, strained muscles or ligaments, and injured/inflamed hands or feet (just not on open wounds). Arnica is also available as cream, gel, or salve/ointment. I wanted to give my friend fresh <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/103507009/st-johns-wort-first-aid-and-massage-oil?ref=shop_home_active_5">St.Johnswort oil</a></b> in case the too-tight zip ties had caused any damage to the nerves when they cut off circulation. St. Johnswort is great for nerve damage (sciatica, post-surgery wound healing), and also helps with inflammation response. It can be used both externally, and internally in homeopathic form under its botanical name, <i>Hypericum perforatum</i>. (The tincture taken internally can interact in a negative way with certain medications, so homeopathic pills or external remedies are best for demonstration situations where you may not know folks' health history) <b>Calming/grounding/protective spray </b>and <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/186236426/heart-elixir-remedy-to-open-heal-protect?ref=shop_home_active_1">Heart Elixir</a> </b>would be great emotional after-care. I hadn't thought before of making an herbal first aid kit/care package to be there when people were released to help heal the physical and emotional trauma that is common during arrest and while locked up. I am excited about the idea and look forward to putting such a kit together for next time.</span><br />
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<i>Note: Don't forget that <b>cacao/chocolate </b>and <b>coffee</b> are medicinal! When you have long rides home after big events, make sure the driver has energy. Having some form of caffeine can help fuel the trip home so everyone arrives back safely. Luckily I happened to have some fair-trade chocolate this time and will be sure to bring some next time, too! Chocolate is also medicinal and <b><a href="http://www.berenicedimas.com/blog/herbal-crisistrauma-kit">grounding</a></b>.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-<b>Connect with organizers </b>out of courtesy and to receive consent. If you're welcome to be part of the event in the role of community herbalist, street medic, etc, connect with others who may have a similar role at the event to collaborate in a good way. If you're someone with privilege (white, US citizen, cisgender, etc), <b>b</b><b>e clear about your role as an ally /accomplice and</b> <b>respect and follow the leadership of the communities most impacted </b>by detention, deportation, transphobia, police violence, etc. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-<b>Choose what to bring based on the community attending, what form of remedy is easiest to distribute in the particular setting </b>Do you have access to hot water to make teas? Will you be in the streets or in an indoor community space? What form is easiest to transport, carry, distribute? Does the community wish there to be no alcohol? What herbs are people familiar with? If folks aren't as familiar with herbs, how can you be a bridge and introduce herbs in an empowering and good-tasting way? What will the weather be like - lots of sun (extra water, sun protection), cold (extra layers, warming remedies)?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-<b>Basic First Aid supplies</b> such as bandaids, gauze bandage, a cool pack, gloves, pads and tampons, sunscreen, benadryl and ibuprofen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-<b>Ginger chews</b> to settle the stomach if someone is feeling nauseous or car-sick</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-<b>Yarrow </b>leaf and flower to chew and apply to open wounds to stop bleeding </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-<b>Plantain </b>leaf -Plantago- to chew up and apply to skin to draw out splinters, stingers, poison</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-<b>Goldenseal </b>root powder <i>cultivated</i>, if someone has intense diarrhea and is becoming dehydrated</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-<b>Slippery Elm</b> bark powder <i>cultivated</i>, to add to water to soothe irritation in the throat or digestive tract. Or Marshmallow root powder as an alternative </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-<b>Activated Charcoal</b> for food poisoning or chemical exposure </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-<b>Chamomile </b>tea bags to make a tea (if there's access to hot water) for muscle or menstrual cramps, calm to the nervous system, soothe the digestive system, or to moisten and apply to irritated eyes or irritated/inflamed skin.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-Throat Spray and/or Immune Support tincture</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>-Relaxation remedy</b> to support the nervous system, calm, and ground</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>-Anti-spasmodic remedy</b> for menstrual cramps/muscle tension (Skullcap - <i>Scutellaria lateriflora</i>- is nice and calming and people don't tend to be stimulated/agitated by it like some are with Valerian root)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-<b>Heart Elixir</b> for emotional support</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>-H</b><b>erbal Salve</b> for minor skin irritations </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia";"><b>-Sore Muscle rub/Salve for Pain and Nerve Damage</b> ie Arnica and St. Johnswort (oil can be used, but salves are less spill-y if you're on the go)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>-Spray to Relax and Ground</b> to mist on the body or in an area</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-<b>Aromatherapy Bubbles</b> or something fun f</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or kids</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>-Snacks</b> for protein, sugar (in case someone's feeling low-blood sugar), avoid common allergens like nuts and dairy if possible. </span><b style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Chocolate </b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for grounding, Chocolate or</span><b style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> Coffee</b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> for energy/caffeine in case of needing to stay awake and drive after the event</span></div>
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<i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>What would you pack in your herbal first aid kit? Your just-released-from-jail after-care kit?</b> Please share suggestions in the comments below or by emailing dandelion778 (at) yahoo (dot) com</i></div>
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<b>Also see:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>-</b></span><b style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://www.berenicedimas.com/blog/herbal-crisistrauma-kit">Herbal Crisis/Trauma Kit</a> </b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by Berenice Dimas of Cantos de la Tierra</span><br />
<b style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">-</b><b style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://adriennemareebrown.net/blog/2014/12/10/caring-for-ourselves-as-political-warfare/">Caring for Ourselves as Political Warfare</a> </b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">by Adrienne Maree Brown</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2014/02/in-case-of-emotional-emergency-self.html">-In Case of (emotional) Emergency: self-care form to fill out</a></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Herbal medicine-making posts:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/goog_1552594206"><b>-(Im)migration and Lip Balms for Social Justice?!</b></a> with directions for making infused oils and salves</span><br />
<a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2010/11/heart-elixir.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>-Heart Elixir: to open, heal, and protect the heart</b></span></a><b> </b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">with directions for making tinctures and elixirs</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2011/02/elderberry-and-other-syrup-recipes.html">-Elderberry (and other) Syrup Recipes</a></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2013/08/do-it-yourself-hydrosols-making-and.html">-Do-It-Yourself Hydrosols - Making and Using Flower Waters for Community Health and Self-Care</a></span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia";"><a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2011/11/winter-immune-health-tonic-not-toxic.html"><b>-Winter Immune Health: Tonic Not Toxic</b></a><b> </b>and <a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2010/11/racism-in-english-language-by-robert-b.html"><b>Idea and Remedies for When You're Home Sick...</b></a><b> </b>and <b><a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2012/11/ginger-lovers-unite-medicinal-and.html">Ginger Lovers Unite!: Medicinal and Culinary Uses of Ginger Root</a> </b>with immune-supporting recipes/practices </span><br />
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This is in *no way* pressure to feel happy when you're down in the dumps. Sometimes we just want to be sad, grumpy, depressed, frustrated, irritable, etc, and these are all a part of the full range of human emotions. However these blog posts are for the times when we're feeling a bit stagnant and wanna shift our mood, or when we just wanna watch cute kitty/penguin videos and add a bit of "YES!!"-ness in our day</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">! Feel free to post more suggestions below in the comments. Enjoy!</span><br />
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<br />More by this crew above <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKQgqqxycTY">here</a></b>. There are more instructional dancing videos of the One Billion Rising flashmob on my previous blog post <b><a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2013/02/v-day-one-billion-rising-and-man-prayer.html">here</a></b>.</span><br />
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For more critter videos on the Wake Robin Botanicals' "Hope! Because sometimes we need some help" post, click <b><a href="http://wakerobinbotanicals.com/2014/03/hope-because-sometimes-we-need-some-help/">here</a></b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Furze/Gorse on the West Coast of Ireland. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Furze/Gorse </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">is "good for what ails you" and it's also said that "Kissing's out of fashion when the furze is out of bloom." (Note: </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Furze is *always* in bloom) </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I love this plant's hopefull, vibrant, golden radiance, especially for gloomy, rainy days or anytime I'm feeling under the weather. More info <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/94740135/furzegorse-flower-essence-hopefull?ref=shop_home_active_4">here</a></b>.</span>dana l woodruffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862957097090009968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8107309531239268875.post-40655120926794723932014-03-17T23:43:00.002-04:002018-03-16T16:12:40.612-04:00St. Patrick's Solidarity<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In grade school, I dyed my bangs green with food coloring on St. Patrick's Day. That same green the Chicago River is dyed on that same day. This day didn't have great significance to me. I'd never been to Ireland, though I'd wanted to go since I was little. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This year, though, St. Patrick's Day has a special meaning. Not only because I've now been to Ireland and have heartstrings-attachment that isn't just a faraway 'someday...' wish to visit this ancestral homeland. Today I'm <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">thinking <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">about the </span></span>St. Patrick's Day cele<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">brations today </span>in Mexico.</span><br />
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What's Mexico have to do with St. Patrick's Day?! Well...</span><br />
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Only a week after giving a <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/424077057695878/?fref=ts">Travel Talk on Ireland</a></b> at <b><a href="http://radspacemontpelier.wordpress.com/">Sovversiva Open Space</a></b>, sharing stories and images of medicinal plants and wild foods (like seaweed!), urban gardens, the Famine/Starvation, and Sheela Na Gig from my various trips to the island, my compañer<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">x</span>s were in the Vermont statehouse, testifying and speaking out against injustice. Grassroots community organizations have fought for an anti-biased policing policy by the VT State Police. Though many communities are targeted and racially profiled, the group I'm most connected with is <b><a href="http://migrantjustice.net/">Migrant Justice</a></b>, a grassroots organization of migrant farm workers in VT, and their allies. (The majority of migrant farm workers living in Vermont are originally from Mexico, with smaller numbers hailing from Guatemala and other countries.) Despite the anti-biased policing policy, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">law enforcement</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> officers </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">continue to racially profile people of color - and continue to call Border Patrol when they stop people that they assume are </span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://colorlines.com/droptheiword/">undocumentated</a></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. </span><br />
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I've often heard people claim that their family came to the US "the right way," whether that was in this lifetime or many generations ago, and that other immigrants should "get in line. (For more on this myth: <a href="http://www.immigrationpolicy.org/just-facts/why-don%E2%80%99t-they-just-get-line" style="font-weight: bold;">here </a>and <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the-immigration-line/2013/02/01/d30cf73e-6bb8-11e2-bd36-c0fe61a205f6_story.html" style="font-weight: bold;">here</a> and <b><a href="http://www.fairimmigration.org/2009/04/06/navigating-this-countrys-immigration-system-a-first-hand-account-of-why-we-need-reform/#more-3255">here</a> </b>and the image <a href="http://i.imgur.com/Yf2gf.jpg" style="font-weight: bold;">here</a>) At a hearing addressing discrimination and bias a VT Representative asked a Latino speaker if he was a US citizen, after he *didn't* ask this of a previous white speaker from the same organization. Another VT Representative claimed that he was part of the Irish community and basically said that they are all documented. </span><br />
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Well, I'm not going to delve deep into Irish history, but I would like to recommend the film <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF5mn5wN210">The Wind the Shakes the Barley</a> </b>to understand a bit about the British occupation of Ireland and the people's resistance. I'd also like to recommend the book <b><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/926110.Gerard_Keegan_s_Famine_Diary">Famine Diary: Journey to a New World</a></b> by James J. Mangan/Gerald Keegan for a personal account about the very intentional starvation of the Irish people by the British government/landlords, who stockpiled food and sent ships full of food to England while the people starved, were incarcerated in huge numbers, or were forced to flee the island. The Irish that crossed the Atlantic and survived the journey, found more discrimination. The NINA (No Irish Need Apply) sign below is just one example: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><br />When I've been in Ireland and spoken with people about <b><a href="http://migrantjustice.net/">Migrant Justice</a></b>, I've been told by people there that they have sons or cousins or other loved ones that are in the US <b><a href="http://colorlines.com/drop-the-i-word/">without documentation</a></b>. Though they may be less targeted because Irish people tend to blend in with the racist idea of what a US American looks like and who "belongs" here (read: white), still people without documentation are forced to live with the constant stress of being deported and being unable to visit loved ones back home for fear of not being able to re-enter the US. More about the 50,000 undocumented Irish living in the US here in "<b><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25360424">America's New Irish Immigrants</a></b>."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">While mainstream "honoring" of St. Patrick's Day often looks like wearing loads of green pla<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">stic</span> and getting drunk, I'm reflecting on solidarity across oceans and human-made borders. I'm grateful for all those who have resisted colonization and questioned racist ideas of who the enemy and scapegoat is. To honor my ancestors and their struggles, learning more about how they were received and later the privileges they were given and we still are given, as well as what we lost, I'm standing in solidarity for racial and immigrant justice within what is now known as the US and beyond. As descendants of those who survived - whether it was crossing the ocean, a desert, mountains, or being from this land since the beginning (and I'm not talking about 1492 or 1776!) - we owe it to each other to end the cycle of dehumanization and work for the rights of all peoples.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">To fill out when you’re feeling grounded, supported, calm, inspired, etc. To read when you’re not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I feel better when I (check all that apply/fill in the blanks)</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">□Go outside □Call a friend □Take time alone</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">□Share meals w/ loved ones. □Scream into a pillow/in a car □Dance</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">□Draw, color, paint, get crafty □Play with kids □Cry it out</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">□Play soccer □Connect with mentors/elders □Go for a walk</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">□Have an orgasm (alone □Clean my space/change it up □</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> or with someone else) □Go bowling □ </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">□Laugh (watch funny film, □Light a candle □ </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> hang out with fun folks) □Get acupuncture/massage □</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">□Go bowling </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> □Burn incense □ </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">□Massage myself with oils □Am in water (shower, bath, □</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> before going to bed ocean, lake, puddle)</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">□Listen to good music like __________________________________________</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">□Watch these movies _____________________________________________</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">These plants support me: </span>in the form of: tea, massage oil, bath, photos, hanging out with…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">□Rose □Milky oats □Tulsi □Cinnamon </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">□Nettles □Chamomile □Licorice root □__________ </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">□Calendula □Pine trees □Lemon Balm □__________</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">□Sunflower □Garlic □Corn □__________</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">My (emotional) emergency contacts are:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-Start with the Basics: Breathe. Breathe. Drink water! Eat good food!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-Drained from dealing with (or not dealing with) conflict? Role-play difficult situations/</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-Reach-out! Let folks know you could use some support (face-to-face or via calls/email/text/</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Facebook, etc. Don’t rely on telepathy with this one!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-Is there an element out of balance? (Are you feeling angry, fiery, frustrated? Get in water! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-Connect with what grounds you with your deep self (beyond our daily lives): nature, meditating, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">looking at old photos, talking with old friends who know you well, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-Take times of transition/stress to re-evaluate and learn from it all (when you’re ready)</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Take as much space as you'd like for more notes, drawings, whatever you like…</span></i><br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UcsVLkXUIo4/UvpPlaMl56I/AAAAAAAACSE/XBPLTG3XH8Q/s1600/dana-dandy-seed-300x225.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UcsVLkXUIo4/UvpPlaMl56I/AAAAAAAACSE/XBPLTG3XH8Q/s1600/dana-dandy-seed-300x225.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">From the first time I met Dana, I have been so impressed with both her knowledge of and dedication to the plants and herbal medicine and her willingness to talk about topics that herbalists don’t tend to talk about: healthy sexuality, gender identity, social justice and power, and more (you can read about some of those on her blog!). I have especially been interested in her work in prisons and with migrant farm workers, teaching them about herbs, learning from them, and helping them get rights they are often denied. Like Sandra Lory’s work (with whom Dana often teaches workshops), Dana is doing incredibly important work educating about self care and building community health and making sure that this knowledge is accessible to whoever wants it. I was thrilled to finally be able to hear about Dana’s work. Dana’s blog, Dandelioness Herbals is an incredible resource with recipes, resources, reflections and more. Dana also sells her herbal remedies at her <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/DandelionessHerbals">Etsy shop</a></b>. Check them out!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>Dana</b>: Like so many raised in the US, much of my ancestral lineage has been lost by the process of assimilation. My childhood in Central Maine wasn’t infused with the plant medicine traditions of my ancestors from Ireland, Scotland, and England. Living rurally, though, I was surrounded by plants. My mom took us out on wildflower walks, in the spring Grammy and Pop-Pop took me to harvest Dandelion greens. We’d eat fiddleheads and we’d eat out of the gardens in the summer. I grew up in a family with a history of being healthworkers, crafters, and farmers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Click <b><a href="http://www.numenfilm.com/blog/danawoodruff/">here</a> </b>to read the entire interview...</span>dana l woodruffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862957097090009968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8107309531239268875.post-89434493611595692442014-01-23T19:23:00.003-05:002014-01-29T15:42:40.994-05:00I Love Our Timebank!: Nourishing Networks of Community Support<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Okay, there aren't many things that I like to testify about. Timebanking and Uterine/ abdominal massage are the big exceptions. (More on the uterine/abdominal massage another time!) I love the Timebank. OUR Timebank. I love offering services and receiving services, and I feel really good about the exchanges. </span><br />
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I had a spell of time that was particularly chock-full of fabulous Timebank exchanges. I met with a lifecoach at the perfect time to help me realize where I wanted to focus my energy, I met with another timebank member at <a href="http://freeridemontpelier.org/" style="font-weight: bold;">Freeride Montpelier Community Bikeshop</a>, who put on my mud guards and basket so I could be less car-dependent and more bike-fabulous, a computer/graphics maven member shared their fonts and Word expertise to help me learn skills to create zines, handouts, pamphlets, etc., and I received a massage where a warm compress of lavender water was placed on my back to relieve muscle tension!</span><br />
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During this same time period, I made a large amount of herbal Iron Syrup for a friend, a member attended my <b><a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2011/03/immigration-and-lip-balms-for-social.html">Herbals Salves for Social Justice workshop</a></b>, and I sent a care package of tinctures and salves across the country to a member who had moved away and wanted to use up the rest of their remaining community credits to receive herbal products. I've become the personal herbalist of a friend who orders shampoo, bath salts, and body scrubs for herself and as gifts for family and friends, using Timebank community credits. I've also received credits for sharing worms (for <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermicompost">Vermicompost</a></b><em></em>) and kombucha mamas, filling out a survey for the Timebank, recruiting new members, and redirecting stuff from my workplace that would've gone into the trash or recycling, but instead went to the <b><a href="http://www.resourcevt.org/">ReSOURCE </a></b>(formally the Restore) and was transformed into art!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In a culture that thrives off of creating a false sense of scarcity and perpetuating inequality where some are overprivileged, which in turn creates poverty and oppression, Timebanking is a pretty radical concept. In these Timebanking networks, <b>time </b>is the currency that is exchanged and each person and their skills are valued equally, whether they're providing childcare, accounting, massage, driving someone to the store or airport, giving tech support, etc.</span><br />
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In a mainstream culture where some people's time is valued at hundreds of dollars per hour, while others aren't compensated with money at all for their labor (such as raising children, caring for elders, cooking, cleaning, and other domestic/caretaking realms), valuing people's time and skills equally creates a whole other culture of reciprocity, abundance, mutual respect, and a strong sense of community. It gives us permission to ask for help when we need it, to give support that's needed, and to realize the balance and reciprocity in this.</span><br />
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Had there been hourly rates applied to the services that I received and offered, the labor of all those involved would've differed greatly. Some of the services I received would have been completely out of my reach. And as I'm committed to making my herbal remedies and workshops accessible, had the exchanges been money-based I would have had to sell many, many elixirs and teach many, many classes to make the money that others may earn in just one hour. The Timebank not only makes these services accessible, it creates fertile grounds to share skills in the spirit of community interdependence.</span><br />
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While I was really interested in the concept, it took me many, many months to finally become a member of the Onion River Exchange (ORE) timebank, and then later the REACH Care Bank, two local timebanks that have since merged. You can check out their website <b><a href="http://www.orexchange.org/">here</a></b>. I felt that I couldn't commit to yet another project. I didn't want to make offers that I couldn't follow through with. Once I finally became a member, I realized that you don't even need to post requests or offers, you can simply look over the list of what people are seeking and offering and contact members directly if there are services that you would like to receive or give. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">And what did I need to do? What I already do and love to do! Folks come to my workshops - <a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2011/02/valentines-aphrodisiac-recipes.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Herbal Valentines</span></a>, Do-It-Yourself Bodycare, Spa Day at the Garden of Seven Gables, <a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2011/03/immigration-and-lip-balms-for-social.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Lip Balms for Social Justice</span></a>, Herbal Gift Giving, <b><a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2011/05/dandelions-are-here.html">The Dandelions are Coming!</a></b>, etc. using Onion River Exchange Community Credit hours instead of money. People in the community have also responded to my offer of <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/DandelionessHerbals"><span style="font-weight: bold;">herbal products</span> </a> - elixirs, salves, lip balm, syrups, flower essences, and custom made concoctions (such as Lavender Body Butter). I love opening my herbal apothecary up to the community, and it feels especially good when there is a mutual appreciation and an exchange free from money and the capitalist system.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I received a locally- and home-made (rather than sweatshop-made) oceany colored crocheted rag rug for my bathroom, a rust-colored crocheted cozy for my Mason jar water/tea bottle, and a pink and red carrier for my tincture bottles. I got all done up with a consultation with makeup artist, filled my belly with a member's soup that they brought to a member craft bizarre, a fellow herbalist shared their label-making skills with a Photoshop tutorial, and another member gave me a ride to the train. I renewed my membership with a community health and healing organization, took sewing classes and received a tutorial in using my serger (like a sewing machine, but with multiple needles), a friend gave me a hand putting plastic on my windows for winter-warmth, and someone with a truck helped me move. I provided companionship to an elder while her family was away (and I got to learn new fun boardgames by playing them with her!). I've received </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">massage and </span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupping_therapy">cupping</a></b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, as well as </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">help with mending clothes and weeding my garden. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I've </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">used credits to 'rent' </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">community space for workshops, birthday parties, dinners, and ceremonies</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. And on and on and on...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When I think of the Timebank, I sometimes get images dancing by like cheesy montages at the end of the final episode of a 1980's sitcom. The skills learned, the time shared, the support given and received...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Filmmaker<a href="http://www.olivierasselin.com/"> <b>Olivier Assel<span id="goog_1810474252"></span><span id="goog_1810474253"></span>in</b></a> visited our local Timebank as part of his <b><a href="http://www.possible.org/">Possible </a></b>documentary project:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>The “Possible” documentary project is about telling the stories of individuals and communities who are actively engaged in creating a better, more sustainable future. It’s about showing that normal people are doing real things, things that are within the reach of all of us. The aim of this project is to debunk all of the false barriers people create for themselves when they start thinking about transitioning to a more sustainable way of life. I don’t have the money… not enough space… not enough time… I don’t know how… it will never work… I’m alone.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>dana l woodruffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07862957097090009968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8107309531239268875.post-36497015511766312722014-01-11T11:04:00.002-05:002017-06-07T22:13:49.742-04:00Herbs Rock!: Songs about Herbalists, Medicinal Plants, and Food as Medicine<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If I were to make a mixed tape (yes, as in a cassette tape cuz I'm from the days before cd's and mp3's and all that...) of songs that weave together plant medicines, respect for traditional healers, and food as medicine, here's where I'd start - with the songs posted below. Please add more suggestions to the comments! (<i>And I ended up making</i> <i>a playlist <b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stGYYRtpqx8&list=PLRWfmZ3QZvsFfiozQphAgIfVRDRh7TOZW">here</a>, </b>just imagine it's a cassette!</i>)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What do songs/music videos have to do with self-care, herbal remedies, and community health? Lots! </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">With even minimal exposure to mainstream radio, videos, televisions, or the interwebs, you've probably <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">seen or <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">hear<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">d</span></span></span> images and lyrics that are offensive in many, many ways. White people stealing music styles and dance moves from communities of color without any kind of accountability, awareness, collaboration, solidarity, or anything else that may make it anything other than cultural theft. Music videos where all the microphones are in the hands of cis-gender (non-transgender) men, while any women present are silent and scantily-clad (if clad at all) eye candy. Violently homophobic lyrics. It goes on and on and on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In a world full of creative, brilliant, and <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">down-to-earth</span> music-makers and other artists, we really don't need to limit what we take into our beings to what mainstream media is serving us. Whether we're tearing up the dance floor or just relaxing at home, listening to the music (and supporting the artists) that feeds us creates a more nourishing, reciprocal cycle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The music that I listen to when I'm making remedies is part of the medicine. Sometimes I listen to radio programs like <b><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/">Democracy Now!</a></b>, <b><a href="http://www.radioproject.org/">Making Contact</a></b>, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><a href="http://firstvoicesindigenousradio.org/">First Voices Indigenous Radio</a></b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or </span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://wpcrmoccasintracks.podomatic.com/">Moccasin Tracks</a></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. Or I listen to the music and words of </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b><a href="http://www.climbingpoetree.com/live/">Climbing PoeTree</a></b>,</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> <b><a href="http://audiopharmacy.com/videos.html">Ras K'Dee</a></b>, <b><a href="http://www.erykah-badu.com/">Erykah Badu</a></b>, <b><a href="http://goapele.com/">Goapele</a></b>, <b><a href="http://arresteddevelopmentmusic.com/">Arrested Development,</a></b> <b><a href="http://www.liladowns.com/us/home">Lila Downs</a></b>, and <b><a href="http://rupaul.com/">RuPaul</a></b>. All that positive consciousness, collective vision for healing and liberation, and you-can-do-it!<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">-ness </span>goes into <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/DandelionessHerbals">the remedies</a>, </b>whether I'm pouring <b><a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2010/11/heart-elixir.html">Heart Elixir: to open, heal, and prote<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">c</span>t the heart</a></b></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">for </span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/91999842/self-care-kit-for-emotional-first-aid?ref=shop_home_active_5">Self-Care Kits: for emotional first aid</a> </b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">or I'm simmering syrup to blend with infused herbs for </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/93843795/speak-truth-throat-spray-antiviral?ref=shop_home_active_20" style="font-weight: bold;">Speak Truth! Throat Spray</a> (made with gratitude in honor of whistle blowers and truth tellers, past, present, and future!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">By the fabulous <b><a href="http://juliosalgado83.tumblr.com/">Julio Salgado</a> </b>shop<b> <a href="http://juliosalgadoart.bigcartel.com/">here</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(check out QUIP - Queer Undocumented Immigrant Project <b><a href="http://unitedwedream.org/about/projects/quip/">here </a></b>and <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/QUIPnational?fref=ts">here</a></b>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What songs, foods, plant medicines, artists feed you and your spirit?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(Want more music (in both Spanish and English)? See the links posted on the </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2012/05/so-you-want-to-learn-spanish-hooray.html" style="font-weight: bold;">So You Want to Learn Spanish?! Hooray! English-only, No Way!</a> post)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Herbal Hydrosols (aka Flower Water) </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The process of distilling volatile oils out of herbs and flower in order to make essential oils creates hydrosols, or flower water. This can be done in fancy copper stills, or we can use supplies that most us already have, or can borrow from friends/family/neighbors, to make our own simple setup. Hydrosols can be used in homemade herbal concoctions - from cosmetic to medicinal - as well as in community health settings. We don’t need to buy Rosewater, Lavender Water, or Orange Blossom Water, which may contain sketchy fragrances and pesticides, be produced by companies that treat their workers inhumanely or that harm the planet in their harvesting and overall business practices, etc. We can make our own hydrosols! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A note on essential oils: Many recipes for do-it-yourself Rosewater, Lavender water, and other hydrosols/sprays contain essential oils. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Even organic, 100% pure essential oils can be harvested in unethical ways, may deplete a community's resources of a particular medicinal and culturally important plant, and have other negative impacts that are difficult to know about due to the long chain of many middle-(hu)mans from harvest through production and sale. {If you are purchasing essential oils, you can seek out and visit distilleries, such as <b><a href="https://bleulavande.com/en/">Bleu Lavande</a></b> in Quebec, or seek sources that you trust who do their research and care about their suppliers and the plants.} By making hydrosols we can capture the volatile oils of local and abundant plants which we can harvest ourselves, and we are </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">better able to ensure that the plants (and people!) involved are treated with respect.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Uses for Hydrosols </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">(aka Flower Water) </span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />*I have included homemade </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lavender and/or Rose water</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> in my <a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2014/04/arnica-drops-and-lavender-spray.html"><b> herbal first aid kit to use as a cooling spray at marches, rallies, and other events on sunny days</b></a>. It’s also great <b>after-care for hot days out in the garden, working in the fields, and at the beach, as well as for hot flashes (aka power surges).</b> You can add Lavender essential oil to this for its calming effect, as well as flower essences. I like to add <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/93287982/yarrow-flower-essence-clear-strong">Yarrow flower essence</a></b> for energetic protection and clear boundaries, especially if this spray is going to be used at events that can be particularly overwhelming. Corn flower essence is also grounding for these situations. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(I've also carried sunscreen and water in a sports bottle - so it can be squeezed directly into folks' mouths without getting germs on the container - in my Street Medic pack to prevent overheating and protect from the sun. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Prevention is best. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hydrosols aren't going to prevent a sunburn, but can provide soothing, cooling relief to overheated skin after the fact. More here: </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2014/04/arnica-drops-and-lavender-spray.html"><b>Arnica drops and Lavender Spray: Creating Herbal/Emotional Support at Marches and Demonstrations</b></a>.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">*If you’ve got a <b>sunburn</b>, you can mix the Lavender and/or Rose water with Aloe juice or gel </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and/or Lavender essential oil.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> I use </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">real aloe that needs to be refrigerated, not the "100%" aloe that often contains sketchy preservatives and colorings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">*<b>You can use homemade hydrosols in recipes that call for distilled water.</b> I personally don’t want to give a cent to </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">water-commodifying corporations like </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Poland Springs/Nestle, and I definitely don't want to use their water in the remedies that I make for my loved ones, my communities, and myself. By making our own flower water, we encourage self/community-sufficiency and we are also capturing some of the healing properties and fragrance of the plants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I add Lavender and/or Rose water to: <b>Bath Fizzies </b>(<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">bath fizzy reci<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">p<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">e </span></span></span>in <a href="http://dandelionessherbals.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-peoples-spa-reclaiming-relaxation_20.html" style="font-weight: bold;">The People’s Spa: Reclaiming Relaxation and Cultivating Collective-Care</a>), <b><a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/103729053/honey-rose-facial-cleanser-gentle?ref=shop_home_active">Honey Rose Facial Cleanser</a></b>, or use straight as a facial toner or body spray. Hydrosols of soothing, gentle plants can be used in place of distilled water in recipes to m</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ake your own baby wipes as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">*Hydrosols can be used as a spray to help </span><b style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">cleanse and move energy in your home*space, workplace, gathering spots, and other collective areas</b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. This can be a great way to bring in the healing, moving qualities of plants, especially when you aren't able to burn herbs and resins, candles, or incense sticks. Also, it leaves less of a scent for those with <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">sensitivities</span>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">*You can use your homemade hydrosols as a <b>natural alternative to sprays with toxic ingredients to use in the home</b>: room spray, bathroom air freshener, linen spray, and whatever area needs so</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">me freshening up, such as the car. Even "natural" store-bought sprays may contain dodgy fragrances and other chemicals. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">*You can create a <b>bedtime hydrosol spray with relaxing herbs to help unwind before sleeping and/or welcome in more vivid dreams and remember them more easily</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">*You can use <b>Rose water to soothe pink eye</b> so that you don't have to touch your eyes and possibly share your germs (transmitting it to the other eye if it's only in one, or to another person). Simply close your eyes and mist them with rose water kept in a spray bottle. (I've also used moist chamomile tea bags and yarrow compresses for pink eye/conjunctivitis)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">*<b>Use as freshening up spray for when traveling, camping, or have other limited access to regular bathing</b>. This is part of community health because if we're so ripe that other folks don't want to be close to us, it makes collaboration difficult, right?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">*<b>If you have a plant ally that's aromatic, making a hydrosol is another way to connect with the plant.</b> If there's a plant you're drawn to, a particular one that's caught your attention that you want to learn more from and share time with, making a hydrosol is one of the many ways you can get to know the plant and make medicine with it. You can also just sit with the plant ~ to listen, notice, take photos, draw, taste (if it edible - check with trusted sources to be sure!), see who else is </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">enjoying</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> it/ </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">pollinating it, sleep by it, etc. By making a hydrosol, you can capture the plant's vital energy and scent, and preserve it to have with you throughout the year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">*<b>Making hydrosols is a great way preserve some of the properties of aromatic plants that you're cutting back in the autumn </b>and/or if you have fragrant plants that are still very vital, but maybe a bit chewed up by bugs or turning yellow, etc. If you have an abundance of a certain herb and you've harvested what you'd like for tinctures, teas, infused oils, etc., you can create a hydrosol as another form of medicine.</span><br />
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Thank you to <b>Kami McBride</b> whose writing<b> </b><a href="http://www.livingawareness.com/ArticleDetail.aspx?hArticle=59"><b>Healing Power of Aroma</b></a> was helpful in the creation of these instructions.</div>
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3. Add six handfuls of fresh aromatic herbs, or 3 handfuls of dried aromatic herbs, to the water. You can use one single herb or a blend of several. Some aromatic herbs that you can make hydrosols from are: Lavender stem, leaf and flower, Rose petals, White Pine needle, and the leaf and flower of: Tulsi (Holy Basil/Sacred Basil), Lemon Balm, Peppermint, and Catnip. All of these plants can be used in either fresh or dried form. </span><br />
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5. Put the lid on the pot <i>upside down</i> so that the lid is pointing down into the inside of the pot. This part is important. Also, if you are making your hydrosol with dried herbs and you have the time, you can let the herbs re-hydrate for an hour or two.</span><br />
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6. Fill the top of the inverted lid with ice cubes. You can also make one large ice cube by freezing water in a yogurt or another wide-mouth plastic container. (Remove the ice cube from the plastic container - you only want the ice on top of the lid!) This larger ice cube melts much slower than many smaller ones. </span><br />
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7. Turn the heat on and once the water has reached a gentle simmer, turn it to low for 20-30 minutes. The steam that rises to the top of pot and meets the icy-cold lid contains the essential oils of the plant. The steam condenses and drips down into the bowl and that's your hydrosol/flower water! Be sure to keep the heat down - you want the water to be hot enough to create steam, but you don't want it to boil and get plant matter and un-distilled water into your bowl. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Be sure that lid is on straight too, so that steam (and those good volatile oils) aren’t escaping.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">8. Carefully remove the lid once it's filled with the melted ice and dump that water into the sink, or pour it into another container to cool and then give the water to your plants, etc. Take care not to let the melted ice water drip into the bowl. Replace the lid right away so as not to lose too much of the medicinal properties and fragrance in the steam and the hydrosol/flower water that you've created. Someone suggested in the comments below to remove the water using a turkey basted, so that you don't have to remove the lid at all and therefore no fragrant steam is lost. (Thanks for the tip!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">9. If you feel like the plants still have more essential oils to give, you can put the lid back on (upside down!) and add more ice to continue to the distillation process. L</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">isten to your intuition - I like to feel like I'm getting all the vital oils from the plant, but I also don't want to dilute the hydrosol by adding steam after the plant has given all its volatile oils.</span><br />
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10. Once your hydrosol is finished, remove from heat. Pour the liquid from the metal bowl into a sterilized mason jar or a spray bottle. You now have an herbal hydrosol! </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I like to </span>let <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">the hydrosol</span> cool to room temperature with the lid on before pouring it into containers, especially if pouring it into <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">plastic. Another reason to wait to pour the hydrosol until it is cool is that cold glass can break if liquid that is too hot is poured into it.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In general, you use more of an herb when it is fresh than when it is dried, as the moisture has evaporated out of dried herbs, making it more potent. If you have less or more of the herbs than what's listed above, use what you've got! There's no need to pack in tons of herbs, but if you have an abundance, feel free to add more. Likewise, if you have just a wee bit of a special plant, go ahead and use what you've got. It may be weaker than if you had more, but it will still capture some of the scent and medicine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When making a hydrosol, it’s good to have lots of ice on hand. I like to fill a large freezer bag filled with a few batches of ice cubes so I have plenty on hand. Or make a larger one as written above.</span><br />
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