under siege and famine
ancestral plantlore & community resilience
we begin july 22!
Who offers support when governments enact violence against their people? How did our peoples survive?
In this program, we will explore some of the more-than-human kin networks that kept people’s of the Celtic Isles alive under English colonialism. We will meet some of the plant kin that offered necessary sustenance (physical & emotional) when resources became scarce, because of state violence, sieges and famines. We will offer them gratitude and honor for the ways they supported the survival of our peoples. Our bodies remember. We will remember how deep relationship with the land and more than human kin are essential to flourishing ecosystems and community survival; how relationship is the key to joy, connection, and deeply woven community. We will intentionally cultivate relationship with these plant kin, and feel for any wisdom they might have to share with us about resilience in this political moment. We will feel for what more is possible when we welcome in the companionship of ancestral plant kin, how we might deepen into communities of care and mutual flourishing.
We will feel for the land beneath our feet, ancestral plant kin at our sides and our ancestors at our back as we love, fight, organize, and agitate in this politcal moment, keeping our gaze fixed firmly on the just world already being born.
This program includes six weeks of gathering together, holding space for info-sharing, community reflection & dialogue, somatic practice, and more. We will spend time with one plant per week, sharing experiences and stories of & with the plant, exploring embodied practice with them and more.
join us this Summer as we
build relations with plants
who sing songs of
community resilience & survival
under oppression.
Who is this for?
This program was crafted to support folks of European settler descent living on North America/turtle island, and especially for those of Celtic Isles descent in reconnecting to their cultural backgrounds, including peoples of Irish, Scottish and Welsh lineages. The plants will be discussed from a Celtic Isles lineage perspective but these plants also occur across Europe (and in N American today), so they are openings for a wide variety of backgrounds to begin or deepen relationship.
This is especially for folks who are engaging in ancestral reconnection work or community organizing work as settlers on N. America; reckoning with legacies of domination and violence is an essential, ongoing thread of this work.
If you care about plants, liberation and justice work, this is especially for you too. All herbalism experience levels and ancestral backgrounds welcome.
LOGISTICS
The next cohort will take place over six Wednesdays, July 22 – August 26, 2026, from 1-2:30pm ET // 10am-11:30am PT.
We will gather via Zoom, and the sessions will be recorded. There will be live closed captioning available on our calls. The recordings will be sent out to all who register.
Folks are invited to make it to our weekly calls live when you can; this is in the intended container and will be the most potent. You are welcome to particpate asynchronously as well, by watching the recordings and engaging in the chat.
Participants will be invited to engage with our plant kin as well as optional embodiment and relational practices in between the calls.
This will be a gentle and lovingly held container. Folks are welcome to be on or off screen, participate or not as they feel called, and are free to utilize the unmute or chat functions to contribute. Come as you are.
Join us in community to explore what plant kin have to remind us about community care, resilience, and survival under state violence.
EARLY BIRD SPECIAL
Early bird pricing is available for early registrants & waitlist folks through June 1st.
Sign up early and register at the discounted rate of $200.
Program Cost
This offering is available via multiple sliding scale tiers of pricing. Please select that which is most appropriate to your financial circumstances, your access to resources and generational wealth, and your societal positionality. You can select your chosen option at check out.
$600 – A little more
$440 – Base rate
$300 – A little less
SOLIDARITY SPOTS: There are two free spots per cohort available for QTBIPOC. Email to request one of these!
Registration
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Space is limited for intimacy and connection.
what wisdom might ancestral plant kin have to share with us?
together lets explore the ways plants defy state violence, and invite us into deep webs of community. together we will remember the resiliency in our lineages, and the interspecies community care that lives in our bones.
together we return to the deep ancestral relationships between humans and plants, between kin, between us and the holy wild.
plants have so much to teach us, and there is always so much to learn. we only have to make space, open and listen.
together
we remember
the deep resiliency
of our lineages
and the power of
deep relationship
with plant kin
Who is facilitating this offering?
For folks new to me & my work –
my name is rowan (they/them) and I’m a qt herbalist, writer, researcher, big nerd and devotee to plant kin. I deeply believe in justice, radical community care, and embodying our values even under pressure.
The threads of my work include politicized ancestral reconnection for settlers on Turtle Island/N America, queer healing, ritual and devotion with the holy, navigating chronic illness, long-c & DJ, cultural traditions and ethnobotany, and more. I’m a white-bodied 3rd gen US person who comes from Irish, Lithuanian, Scottish & Sicilian lineages.
I base my work off of my lived personal experiences, relationships with the holy wild, and deep research. I love researching and learning, and then sharing what I’ve learned with community.
thanks for being in community with me, for your support of my ongoing work, and for being a part of this broader weaving.