Herb At The End Of The World

Join Samwise Raridon Community Herbalist and Meditation Practitioner and Therapist Liz Fitzgerald for a sweet and reverent chat on Lavender, queerness and joy. If you want to learn more about Liz and their work, you can find them at https://www.therapistliz.com/ Herb at the End of the World will be taking a hiatus while Samwise adjusts to some big life changes. Here's some links to the article...

Just a little announcement about taking a break over the summer to heal up and work camp! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Herb at the End of the World is created by Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, teacher and organizer of germanic, celtic and Lebanese lineages living as a guest in unceded Shawnee, Osage, Ofo and Mesopelea (otherwise known as...

Join Samwise Raridon Community Herbalist and their partner Seed Minkin Youth Educator and Artist for a sweet and powerful conversation about herbs for mental health support, including Burdock. Thank you so much Seed for sharing your beauty and wisdom. Content Warning: In this episode we touch on themes of mental health, working with Bipolar, and acknowledge feelings of wanting to give up. If you a...

Join Samwise for a tender and potent telling of their relationship to the elder tree and the elder's connections to death and rebirth. The elder tree is strongly connected to the winter deity Holda / Holle in some germanic lineages. Winter, the epiphany, January 6th, divination, grief, loss and cycles of regeneration are big themes throughout this episode.  Content warning: this episode talks...

Join host Samwise Raridon, Community Herbalist and Cera Ariel, Abortion Doula and Fertility Awareness Educator for a generous and in depth discussion on herbs, ancestral medicine, abortion and how abortion doulas can support folks moving through abortions. In this episode Cera shares about their practice of supporting folks as an abortion doula and turns us towards our own lineages' cycle regu...

Join host Samwise Raridon and Clinical Herbalist, Teacher, Artist and Urban Gardener Bonnie Rose Weaver for an in depth discussion of the herb vitex, the utility of tracking out hormonal cycles and the lasting cultural impact of the film Mean Girls. In this episode, Bonnie Rose generously shares an exercise for understanding how hormonal cycles for folks who bleed can work, so if you feel inspired...

Join Samwise Raridon Community Herbalist and Violet, Artist and Herbalist, for a powerful and honest conversation about how being in relationship with the plants and our minds can help us change our lives for the better. Together they talk about using meditation and california poppy to work with the energies of addiction and other challenges of being very human. For folks who are inspired to begin...

Join Herbalist and Peer Counselor Gabrielle Ishkanian Greenberg and Community Herbalist Samwise Raridon for a deep dive into the soothing and powerful properties of California Poppy. Together we talk about how this plant inspires us to care deeply for our nervous systems and our bodies, how cal poppy can help us tap more deeply into our own power and consent, and how we as people in our community...

Join Samwise Raridon Community Herbalist and Andi Webb of Every Light Wellness for a powerful and tender conversation on the many useful teachings of the herb plantain. Plantain is so helpful at both soothing inflammation and drawing out poisons or irritants, both on the physical and spiritual level. Thank you so much to Andi for your powerful vulnerability, realness and wisdom.  You can find...

Join clinical herbalist and educator Abi Huff and Samwise Raridon, community herbalist, for a beautiful exploration of the energy of nettles. The themes of boundaries, aliveness and authenticity weave throughout the episode. Abi is currently crafting a new herbal educational offering that offers a much needed political and liberatory approach to herbalism. If you'd like to check out the classes th...

Join Jheri Neri, Executive Director of the Greater Cincinnati Native American Coalition (GCNAC) and Indigenous Activist as we explore some of the most important healing work of our time. Jheri shares about the powerful and needed offerings of the Greater Cincinnati Native American Coalition and ways for folks to support this vital and life affirming work. We also talk about what it might mean to w...

Join Samwise Raridon, Community Herbalist and Bob and Rebecca of Currents intentional community in Shawnee, Osage, Adena and Hopewell land (colonially known as South Eastern Ohio) for an exploration of the energy of Maple and the joyous and arduous project of making maple syrup. Maple is a tree that evokes an energy of motherly protection, abundance, sweetness and also balance, boundaries and reci...

Join me, Samwise Raridon of Self Heal Herbs, and Karly Ketron of Wise Witch Apothecary as we talk about the regenerative and healing power of Pine. The energy of Pine carries themes of healing big shame, of moving through despondency and of learning to embody healthy and positive masculinities. Big thank you as well to artist and filmmaker Em Harger for contributing their powerful short story at t...

Join Samwise Raridon, Community Herbalist and Heather Enders, the creator of the Tarot of Plants for a fun and lively conversation on the Apple as the World Card and other tasty tidbits of apple lore. Heather is an artist who's in touch with plants and a folk astrologer who creates regular content on their website https://www.emptyandamazing.com/ . You can also find Heather on Instagram at @emptya...

Join Samwise Raridon, Community Herbalist and Educator in conversation with Farmer, Birthworker and Fiber Artist Margy Sankey. Together we delve deep into apple magic and cultivation, the power of witnessing birth and how weaving art through all aspects of life gives it that juicy vitality that apples are so well known for. I learned so much interviewing Margy and I hope you do too!  You can...

Content Warning: This episode discusses histories of desecration around wells and the people who tend them and using rape as a tool of empire building. (No graphic descriptions). It also contains a story about a young girl seeking answers to a devastating plague (that ultimately ends on a hopeful note).  Here's a little bonus episode on the healing lore and powers of the waters of life and de...

Join Samwise Raridon Community Herbalist and Madeleine Keller Folk Herbalist as they dig into the heart opening and powerfully protective wonders of Rose. We talk about how the smell and sight and taste and texture of Rose can be so helpful in big transition times or in times of great grief and great joy, like our current moment in July 2021 where we're on the precipice of fire season, feeling int...

Join Samwise Raridon Community Herbalist and Dana Aronson Clinical Herbalist of the Klamath Siskiyou Herbal Alliance while we sing the praises of Yarrow and how it helps us remember that herbalism is the peoples' medicine. Blessed yarrow, healer of wounds and keeper of boundaries! Heads up that in this episode we do discuss blood and woundcare, so if that's not something you want to listen to righ...

CONTENT WARNING: Please note that in this episode we talk about violence and murder, and do so respectfully, but if that's not a topic you want to listen to right now, it's always ok to come back and listen another time.  Join Samwise Raridon and Seed Meyer Minkin for a vulnerable and profound exploration of the power of chamomile. Chamomile, as we discuss on this episode, is really helpful f...

Join us for a deep dive into the powerful world of ancestral remembering with rosemary. Our guests for this episode are Community Herbalist and Intuitive Healer Vanessa Radman and Community Herbalist and Wisdom Weaver Rose Rothfeder. Together we share powerful and tender stories about how this plant has helped us remember how to be human in these bodies in these times. It's a beautiful and vital d...

This is a beautiful and powerful episode about Garlic and the power of accessible healing education with Community Shaman, Family Herbalist and Health and Wellness Educator Jesse Garcia. Jesse shares their beautiful vision of what our relationships might feel like if we all had more familiar connection with plants and how herbs like Garlic might be a way to get to know our own healing powers and a...

Join the magical Seed Minkin and I as we discuss the enlivening, beautiful and healing qualities of Dandelion. It supports your liver! It helps release anger! It helps you have really really good poops! In this episode we share stories from childhood about dandelion and how it's supporting our bodies now. We also run away from a lawn mower and hide in the bathroom where we tell stories about good...

A sweet exploration of some lore of the Linden tree and how it has helped Samwise forgive and heal some legacies of trauma in their family line. Heads up that this episode acknowledges the existence of inter-generational sexual trauma,  but does not include graphic descriptions of violence.  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Herb at the End...

In this episode I get to interview Ben, a wise and funny painter, punk rock aficionado, and philosopher who's currently living at the Here/There encampment in North Oakland. Join us as we spend some time in the camp talking about what it's like living with Covid, how our system of economics is a fiction, how housing is a human right, and that one time a weasel climbed into a particle accelerator.&...

An interview with Rene Rivera, Dharma Teacher at the East Bay Meditation Center and mugwort aficionado. We talk about the powers of mugwort as a plant, as a beautiful powerful medicine and a vital accessible link to our stone people past. Rene is one of the organizers of the trans and gender queer Monday night sit and  teaches with the Alphabet Sangha on Tuesdays from time to time. You can fi...