Plants as Medicine

A plant is not just the sum of its nutritional value.

A plants medicine is in the stories, prayers, songs and rituals passed down by the ancestors.

A plants medicine is in the sacrifice and gratitude of the hands of the steward, generation after generation.

A plants medicine is within their sacrifice to feed those who cannot make their own food.

Plant and human so intricately intertwined that one will not survive without the other. Coevolution.

A plants medicine is in their subtleness. The way they call us to quiet and still. Within their ancient spirit’s song and dance.

A plants medicine is in their reminder of interdependence, of connection and community.

A plants medicine is within the remembering-when story, prayer, song and ritual has been forgotten. The remembering of the sacrifice. The remembering of the gratitude in relationship. The remembering of ancestral culture.

A plants medicine is within the gathering together, within the untangling of a tapestry that has been cast aside, within the miracles, pain, joy and freedom of planting a garden.