the plants of our people
unsettling traditional western herbalism and reweaving cultural herbalisms
be a part of the work. it will take all of us.
join us this summer for a community research project to unsettle TWH and reweave cultural herbalisms.
The plants of our people is a 4 month community research project where participants will be supported in doing their own inquiries into their disconnected ancestral healing traditions – doing research, coming up with a creative shape for their work, and then share their learning with community!
Think: weekly calls for 4 months; skillshares on research, the creative process, and more; plenty of coworking sessions for accountability and making sure we have the time set aside; two 1:1 sessions with rowan for support; a final community zine of all of our work together – and all of this in community with likeminded folks. Sounds dreamy, no?
From Aug – Dec 2025, we will gather together in the plants of our people to each pick up a thread and reweave one small part of our severed cultural lineages.
We all have a part to play in this work. This Lughnasadh season, lets do it together.
Why this offering now?
I’m a researcher, writer, zinester, folklorist, herbalist and wear many other hats. I love to learn things, organize that information and share it with others. And I love to do this in service to community healing, justice and liberation. And through this new program, I’m hoping to support others in doing the same! I’m committed to unsettling traditional western herbalism, and reweaving anti-colonial cultural herbalisms with respect and reverence. I hope this offering can be in service to this commitment, and help us as settler diasporic communities tend our wounds, heal our lineages and show up for work being asked of us in these times.
I’d love to do this work with you, if you are hearing the call.
LOGISTICS: WHEN, WHERE, HOW
This community program will take place from August 20 – Dec 17, 2025.
Our live calls will take place on Wednesdays from 12-2pm ET // 9am-11am PT.
We will meet weekly via Zoom. There will be live closed captioning available.
Opening and closing sessions, specific skillshare sessions and our visioning session will be recorded. These will largely take place in the first half of the program. Otherwise, our ongoing community calls and coworking calls will NOT be recorded. Please plan to attend the sessions live as much as you are able.
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. Bring your snacks, your tea, your fidgets. Call in from bed or your office. Come as you are.
Who is this for?
This is for you if:
- if you feel called to being part of ancestral cultural repair for settlers in diaspora on N America
- You yourself are a euro-descended settler here on Turtle Island/N America
- You feel called toward culture work in these times
- If you are a plant lover, herbalist, healing arts practitioner, botanist, gardener, or someone who hugs trees
- If you are longing to have the time and supportive structure set up to do this type of creative research
- If you are ready to devote 2-4 hours per week for 4 months to this work
- If the idea of exploring ancestral healing traditions and putting together a related creative project gives you a full body YES
Join us in community to explore the legacies of ancestral herbalisms and cultural healing traditions.
Cost
This offering, like all of my work, is available via multiple sliding scale tiers of pricing.
The base rate for this series is $666.
Feel free to use the sliding scale below select that which is most appropriate to your financial circumstances, your access to resources and generational wealth, your earning potential, and your societal positionality.
Sliding scale access for this offering is $999-444 USD
- $999 (resourced)
- $666 (base)
- $555 (a little less)
- $444 (alternative)
Those who pay on the higher ends of the scale support those who pay on the lower ends, as well as covering the no-cost solidarity spots. Thank you for participating in this system!
Payment plans available upon request.
Registration
Early bird registration for past + current students will be available May 1 – May 15.
If spaces are still available, registration will open to the broader community on May 16, 2025
Space is limited for intimacy and connection.
FINANCIAL ACCESS SUPPORT
There are two no-cost spots for low income / disabled QTBIPOC in this cohort. Email ofhawthornandyew@protonmail.com to request one of these spaces.
Longing to participate but finding the cost is a barrier? Limited 50% solidarity spots are available, please email to inquire!
what you’ll get by signing up:
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16 weekly live zoom calls over 4 months
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Access to a digital community platform to stay in contact throughout the duration of the course
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Specific skill + infoshare sessions on doing cultural research, practicing discernment around resources, and analyzing what we find
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Coworking sessions
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Visioning sessions
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TWO 1:1 private coaching calls with rowan for support, to take place within the 4 months of the program
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Ongoing accountability support and community cheerleading
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AND a final digital zine of all of our work!
a note on this work:
This work is both personal and communal, and deserves to be contextualized as such. We will each be doing a specific project of our own, depending on our desires, our ancestral heritage, and where we feel called by the ancestors. As a cohort, we will be supporting each other throughout this process, offering accountability, advice, our experiential wisdom, and mutual support. In these ways, its personal and communal in our small group.
And also this work expands out more broadly than this one cohort. It is actually so much more than just about us. This work is situated in a wider context, the context of the political, social and cultural climate we live amongst on Turtle Island/N America. We do this work as an offering to the work of unsettling, of repairing cultural lineage damaged by whiteness, assimilation and empire, and we offer back this work to the whole.
To this end, we will share our community zine with our broader communities as a fundraiser! We will direct all of the profits from this zine to a BIPOC community organization (tbd, stay tuned!). In additional to using this zine to raise funds for material support, we also are offering back our learning from all our creative, ancestor inspired projects. This learning, our work, adds another layer to the ongoing project of reweaving cultural herbalisms, and it is my hope that our communal creations will inspire others to begin or continue their own work in this field. We will offer back our learning to the whole, a part of the prayer and spell and ongoing struggle for justice and liberation.
together
we remember
ancestral healing traditions
and reweave
cultural herbalisms
Who is facilitating this offering?
For folks new to me & my work –
rowan is a qt facilitator, researcher, writer, zinester, folklorist, somaticist, herbalist and anarchist. They come from Irish, Lithuanian, Scottish and Sicilian peoples, and are a 3rd gen settler on turtle island/n America. rowan works at the intersections of plant kin relations, ancestral cultural repair, anti racism for settlers, and the work of total liberation.
They teach workshops on plantlore of the Celtic Isles, ancestral lineage tending, herbalism, queer care and more. They hold space for settlers and qt folks to reckon with trauma, embodied white supremacy, assimilation + cultural loss, and what is being asked of us in this current political moment. They support community members in bringing their actions more deeply in alignment with their values in big and small ways. And they encourage those who have forgotten that listening to the land, attuning to the wild holy, is always the place to begin.
Credentially, rowan has many years of experience in qualitative academic research, teaching and long form writing and is now an independent community researcher, bringing these skills to our radical movements for justice and transformation.
thanks for being in community with me, for your support of my ongoing work, and for being a part of this broader weaving.