Book Reading at City Lights Bookstore
Join me at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva, North Carolina where I’ll be sharing my new book The Love Language of Plants: Stories of Becoming Written by a Human and Her Plants. I’ll be reading excerpts, sharing about the writing process, and answering questions! I hope to see you there!
You can RSVP here (not required).
Plant Science and Tradition Workshop
You are invited to join us for a day focused on our neighbors, the plants! Please come spend some time with us contemplating a deeper understanding of what plants provide in the Appalachians and how we can become better friends to the plants that feed us.
We're working with the Southern Appalachian Biosphere Region to hold a workshop on February 3rd at the Harrah's Cherokee Casino in Cherokee, NC. The workshop is about the somewhat-new science of "plant intelligence" and how it can help us to grow (and eat) better food in the mountains. We will explore contemporary science and old traditions. We'd like to invite you to join us for a day of fascinating presentations and robust discussions about our relationships with growing plants for food. The goal is for participants to leave with an enhanced understanding of the complex life of plants and how we can educate students and growers to awaken a new paradigm in Appalachian plant culture and value.
The details of the day will be sent as we get closer to February 3rd. We do require an RSVP, as participation is limited. RSVP by 1-12-25 to: amber@noquisi.org
14th Annual Midwest Women's Herbal Conference
Join us for a gathering of the feminine with a wide spectrum of acclaimed herbalists and speakers, pre-conference immersions, 80+ incredible workshops, plant walks, and topics including holistic immune support, storytelling, herbal traditions from around the world, wise woman ways, and much much more! Register here.
I’ll be teaching two workshops at the conference:
Co-Becoming with Damiana - Together, Damiana and I have written a master’s dissertation and peer-reviewed academic articles, as well as personal essays and poems together. This workshop is about what it means to enter into relationship with plants and how we enter that call, whatever it may look like. We will explore what it means for our emergence to be relational, and what Damiana has taught me about what it means to be a plant and what it means to be human.
Plant Walk: Plant Thinking - Plants are conscious, but the “flavor” of their aliveness and consciousness and how thought is manifested differ from our own. Plants think in relationship. We will explore how plants think and how we can tap into their rhizomatic mycelial web of thinking and our embodied experience as entangled and ecological human beings. The science of plant intelligence is most mindfully explored by walking alongside them. What does it feel like when we press human and plant thinking against each other?
I hope to see you there!