tending to ourselves, together
This event seeks to empower people to engage with the plant world around them in a holistic way, integrating plant medicine into their food and learning how to create herbal self-care products. Gather with our community to learn how to care for each other and ourselves during these troubling times.
We’ll Make:
Cooking with First Foods: Nettles and other Seasonal Vegetables
Facial Hydrosol Mists
Tea Blends
Why is Care Important?
Rather than being separate from the creative, collaborative work of design justice, we understand care as interdependent, liberating acts to be woven into our principles and processes. Just as Healing Justice and care has historically sustained the well-being of changemakers to protect the regeneration of communities and movements, we know we must cultivate practices that will holistically resource and fortify each other as design justice practitioners.
This shift towards care will shape the ways we hold space for our healing, build and deepen relationships, and design with those who have been strategically placed at the margins.
We will gather to craft nourishment for our bodies while honoring the land and the season that we're in through food, tea, and body care.
Our Care Facilitator
Savahna (they/them/ni) is from the Modoc, Klamath, Hoopa, Washoe, Maidu, and Karuk people and enrolled with the Klamath Tribes. They are a harvester of traditional foods, a Two-Spirit auntie, an artist, traditional storyteller, and community chef. They have been creating plant medicine for years, from family to community, enjoying being able to provide healing and love to community.
They are an Indigenous plant practitioner, reclaiming and sharing ancestral wisdom through the art of storytelling, plant medicine, and food.