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63 – Habobas House, Sudan
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-emq4r-19d4064 In today’s podcast I am speaking with Sara from Habobas house about her charity work setting up Habobas House, which supports the rebuilding of homes in Sudan, and about Sudanese culture. It is really nice warming episode, so please enjoy, and support her work if you can. Instagram: @habobas.house Website: http://www.habobashouse.com
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62 – Decolonize Sudan
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-z5abg-19a0cd2 In today’s podcast I am joined by Ruth from The Justice Nook to speak with Sarah and Saud from Decolonize Sudan. This podcast will open your eyes (if they aren’t already open) to the global players involved in the largely ignored Sudanese Genocide. Find out about their work here: decolonizesudan.org They have really interesting…
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61 – Gathering Nature Natasha Lloyd
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-2d9j7-19809b4 Today I am speaking with Natasha from Gathering Nature We speak about foraging, The Wild Biome Project, Natasha’s new book and the National Institute of Medical Herbalists UK. Natasha’s book Foraged Condiments is available through Aeon. They have given podcast listeners a discount using the code NL20 available until 22/11/25. If you enjoyed the…
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Historical Herbalists and Community Work
My work as a community herbalist with Movement in Thyme CIC sees me working with disadvantaged communities and people seeking sanctuary. We run workshops empowering people to help themselves with herbal remedies at a time when the medical system seems overburdened and adverts on the radio advise patients to treat themselves at home before attending…
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60 – Dancing with Goddess Agnieszka Drabek-Prime
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-a4tqj-1980968 In todays podcast I am speaking with Agnieszka Drabek-Prime from Prime Therapy She is a medicine women and sacred womb weaver. We speak about how and why to connect with the womb, the cycles in life and the archetypes. You can connect with her at her website (above) or on instagram @ Yoni.Wise You…
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Are we becoming the witch again?
In the last patreon post on the Wise Herbal Ways weaving the feminine path, we looked at the archaeological remains of an Anglo-Saxon woman who has been described as a wise or cunning woman. Wise women would have had great power and healing skills to help the community and animals. They would have mediated between…
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59 – Seed Sistas: Poison Prescriptions
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3fpzt-1945e24 In todays new moon herbal session we are speaking with The Seed Sistas Kaz and Fi are medical herbalists based in the UK, I urge you to check out their work, they really make herbalism fun. They have very kindly shared a little gift with you, the listeners – a link to download their…
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58 – Palestine Series: Rabbi E Back
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-d2nq9-19396b6 In todays podcast my new co-host Ruth Glasgow and I are speaking with Rabbi E Beck an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi from Neturei Karta International. Neturei Karta International is a community of activists representing many Jews worldwide who stand up for and promote traditional Judaism in opposition to the philosophy of Zionism and due to…
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Transgenerational effects of Famine
Spirituality and ancestral wisdom has always told us that our ancestors were important and that it was necessary for us to honour them and not forget them and what happened to them. Science is as usual catching up and showing us some reasons why its important to know what happened to our ancestors and how…
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57 – Palestine Series: The War Doctors Gaza
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-4ek5g-190f623 This episode is part of the Palestine Series in solidarity with Palestine and made in association with Ruth Glasgow from The Justice Nook whose aim is to share knowledge for action. We are speaking with Dr Mosab and Dr Malak who are 2 Gazan doctors currently struggling to help their people in Gaza. You…
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56 – Josh Williams Wortcunning
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6j43n-190590d In todays podcast I am speaking with Josh Williams, one of my favourite herbal teachers. He is a wealth of knowledge relating to the traditional ways of working with plants and reviving animism through plant connections. Josh puts out loads of free content on his You Tube channel and you can support him through…
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55 – Dr Amit Anand Gender & Witch Hunts India
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wu54q-18e69a5 Gender based violence, Deva Desi, and witch hunts in India. We will be speaking about the social-legal dimensions in the South- East Asia caste system.
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54 – Tabitha Stanmore Cunning Folk
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-6smbv-18c65ce In todays episode I speak with historian Tabitha Stanmore on the topic of cunning folk and magic, a topic which I find particularly interesting. I hope that you enjoy the podcast, and will check out her conference and book if you are interested in the topics of witchcraft, magic and cunning folk. To…
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53 – Rosarie Kingston – Ireland’s Hidden Medicine
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-bdyjs-18aca71 Today I am speaking with Rosarie Kingston about the traditional folk medicine of Ireland. There is a rich history of traditional healing still practiced by folk healers and recorded in the Irish records, a lot of this old knowledge is being lost and at risk of dyeing out completely. If you would like…
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52 – Grassroots Remedies Foraging & Community herbalism
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ijcb6-189048d In this months episode I am speaking with Soraya and Catriona from Edinburgh/Glasgow based co-op Grassroots Remedies about their community herbalism work and about sustainable foraging. Check out all their offerings at: grassrootsremedies.co.uk Follow them on Instagram @grassrootsremedies Grassroots Remedies and many other foraging organisations will be at The Scottish Wild Food Festival in…
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Reclaiming the Wise Woman – part 2 who is the wise women?
My work within Wise Herbal Ways is aimed at reclaiming the Wise Woman, but who is this woman? And why would we want to reclaim her? The Wise Woman can be thought of as a historical figure, an ancestor, and also as an archetype. She represents the wild woman within us, the fierce warrior who…
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Whole Plants
We have evolved together with plants. Our bodies, our nervous system, our brains need the chemicals in plants as these chemicals are what we are literally made of, they are needed for our body to function properly, our microbiome also feed on them and they constitute the majority of our physical body. Plants contain thousands…
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Loss of old Gods
I was surprised to hear someone say that the fact that there were statues of female dieties discovered that pre-dated Jesus blew their mind, my mind was blown to find out that people believed that there was nothing before Christ, and yet this quote from the bible more or less sums it up. It explains…
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Headache like a hole in the head
Would you ever consider having trepanation – drilling a hole in your head – to relieve your headache? Not a regular, run-of-the-mill treatment for headaches even in the 1600s, but nonetheless a treatment that some people resorted to when nothing else helped. And amazingly, there are some records of people suggesting it worked for them! …
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51 – The Apothecary’s Wife Karen Bloom Gevirtz
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-hayra-180e162 Today, on World Social Justice day, in the podcast I am speaking with Karen Gevirtz the author of THE APOTHECARY’S WIFE: The Hidden History of Medicine and How it Became a Commodity A ground-breaking genealogy of for-profit healthcare and an urgent reminder that cantering women’s history offers vital opportunities for shaping the future. You…
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Reclaiming the Wise Women – part 1 Misogyny & women’s history
The world feels like it’s gone slightly crazy right now, although in reality, it’s always been like this, at least for as long as we have recorded history in writing. Our history has made us who we are, our history has created the world we have inherited, and our history shaped the lives of our…
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50 – Humanitarian Crisis DRCongo
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3pjrv-17e729e This is a short podcast I recorded yesterday with Freddy from Women Concern DR Congo. I have been in contact with and working with them in their quest to help women in their area of Congo, which is South Kivu, for about a year. As an NGO in Congo they are understandably concerned about…
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The Transition to Motherhood
Right I’m just going to come out and say it right at the start…motherhood is hard. Don’t get me wrong its amazing and beautiful but it is also lonely and challenging. This is what I wish someone had told me when I was having my first child. But its like a big secret that no…
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Carrot Syrup – Sore Throats
This is a remedy from my Portuguese mother-in-law. When her sons were little children and had a sore throat her doctor prescribed them carrot syrup, which she and my husband have been making ever since. Here is the recipe: 1. Slice 1 carrot very thinly 2. Sprinkle on rapadura or muscovado sugar (these are both…
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Immune Hot Chocolate
Hot chocolate is such a great winter comforting drink and often liked by adults and children alike. I’ve found that it is a useful way to get my children to drink herbs, and is equally tolerated by adults who might not enjoy a cup of herbal tea. I start with a base of organic cacao,…
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Immunity
The immune system is a system in the body that is fundamental to survival it mediates our body and the outside world. Multiple layers to it – 3 layer – if trying to protect a location you would build a fort – skin is an important barrier, internally the skin becomes a mucous barrier, it…
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Wild Food Festival Trip Finland
Our recent Wild Food Cultural Exchange trip to Ilomantsi in eastern Finland was a rare opportunity to discover a beautiful country full of clean forests, interesting friendly people, bears, wolves, berries and, in fact, a country with no word for foraging as they have an unbroken tradition of collecting food from the land around them.…
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Elderflower Ice cream
1. Infuse 225ml milk with 6 elder flower heads for 24 hours, keeping the stalks out of the milk. 2. Strain out the elder flowers and put the milk in a pan. 3. Put 4 new elder flower heads, minus the green stalks, in the milk and bring to the boil. 4. In a bowl, mix 3…
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Nettle Pocket
100g Nettle leaves 100g Spinach 1 onion 50g Feta Cheese 1 Tin chickpeas Juice of 1 lime 1 pack puff pastry Salt to taste 1. Put olive oil and sliced onions into a pan. Sweat onions. 2. Wash nettles by rinsing in boiling water. Cut off leaves and add to the pan. 3. Add the…
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Nettle Cordial
200g Nettle tops (cut the stem to get the top 4/5 leaves) 500g sugar 4 squeezed lemons 1 liter water. 1. Put nettle tops in boiling water for about 15 minutes 2. Strain out the nettles keeping the liquid. 3. To this liquid add the juice of 4 lemons and sugar. Cook on a low heat,…
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Rox Madeira 