45. Grassroots Herbal Educators Sprouting up from the Ground: Rosie Cooper on Herbal Education

Join us on this deep journey with Rosie Cooper, a grassroots herbalist, herbal facilitator and teacher from Dja Dja Warrung country in Victoria. Rosie is passionate about assisting people to foster deeper relationships with plants, letting the plants themselves guide the process. Rosie runs wilderness rites of passage, nature quests, plant connection courses, herbal first aid workshops and medicine making workshops. She makes and sells her beautiful seasonal medicines and works a lot with wild medicines in her bio region.

Hear about Rosie's meandering experience into herbal medicine, beginning with being in USA and being inspired by their grassroots herbal medicine movement, then returning home to Australia and feeling isolated and lonely without having any accessible face to face herbal medicine teachers. Often these experiences can drive people to action, as has been the case with Rosie. She loves to move with the plants in a slow way, facilitating embodies spaces which invoke deeper listening in a non academic way.

In this episode we explore the importance of rites of passage for our youth coming into adulthood. About discovering what memory remains in our bones from our ancestors, combined with what is emerging in the here and now. Rosie shares her dreams for the future about herbalism coming back into common sense and seeing more people growing herbs, celebrating diversity and creating more accessibility for herbal medicine. She shares her dreams as an "introduced" person to this land, finding a deep relationship with the "introduced" plants in this land- the plants of her ancestry.

Sit back with a nice cup of herbal tea and enjoy this beautiful conversation.

Rosie's website:kinbotanica.com.au

Instagramwww.instagram.com/kin.botanica/

Join Rosie's mailing list : https://tinyletter.com/kin_botanica

Shownotes:

Jim McDonald:https://www.herbcraft.org/index.htm

John Gallagher/Herb Mentorhttps://learningherbs.com/herbmentor/

Kiva Rose:https://enchantersgreen.com/

Kiva Rose's online magazine 'Plant Healer'https://planthealer.org/

Join us on this :https://planthealer.org/

Rebecca Altman:https://wonderbotanica.com/

Claire Dunn:https://www.naturesapprentice.com.au/

Tyson Yunkaporta's book 'Sand Talk':https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/sand-talk

Listen as an audiobook (recommended as Tyson is the narrator):https://www.audible.com.au/pd/Sand-Talk-Audiobook/B09DQ4F7PW

Donna Raymond's book 'Maiden':https://www.booktopia.com.au/maiden--donna-raymond/book/9780645096811.html

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The intro and outro song is "Sing for the Earth" and was kindly donated by Chad Wilkins.  You can find Chad's music here and here.