WF: Rebecca Beyer - You Can Know 10 Plants Deeply And Be A Wonderful Healer

Published: Jan. 27, 2022, 7:04 p.m.

In this episode, Risa and members of the Missing Witches coven sit down with ethnobotanist, forager, wild-tender, and teacher of hedgecraft: Rebecca Beyer of Blood and Spice Bush. Rebecca holds us gently and invites us into practices that offer direct action toward negotiating the wounded spaces of cultural appropriation between Witches and first nations communities; direct relationships with the beings, plants, and spirits who live with us; gentleness for her own and all our illnesses and wounds; and love for the pre-teen history-and-magic-nerd in all of us. Plus we get some sweet details on Hildegarde of Bingen's life and herbal magic and a taste of Rebecca's beautiful book, Wild Witchcraft. \n\n"It's a colonized mindset to think you have to... know all or nothing... You can know 10 plants deeply and be a wonderful healer."