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Come  gather and remember with our collective!

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​2019 community work days

Mondays 4-7:30p July-October 2019
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2019 seed wisdom-shops + trainings

BIPOC HI-Herbal Immersion 5 Day, Roxbury, MA [Jun 29-Jul 3]
Plant Medicine for Activists + Earthkeepers, Soul Fire Farm, NY [Sept 19]
Food Day Urban Farm Institute, MA [Oct 19]
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past seed wisdom-shops

If you are interested in bringing Seed to your organization with any of our past or tailored wisdom-shops please visit our book us page to get our conversation started.

Spring into Healing with Herbal Companions, Gardener's Conference, Boston, MA [Mar 23]
Desire, sex + intimacy: Creating self-intimacy + sexual liberation after surviving sexual trauma, Unbound Bodies + Hot Bitz Film Festival [May 19]

Food Medicine Series 2018

All food is medicine. Our ancestors mixed their remedies and cast their spells in every dish we enjoy today. Some of their secrets were whispered into our grandmothers, mother's ears, some were to be held in the food, because colonization forbid sharing. Our food remembers.

In our Food Medicine Series we will be traveling into the magick of our food, the nourishing minerals, the healing properties and our remembrance. Each workshop will be highlighting the food medicine from our black, indigenous + students of color in our herbal + ancestor veneration apprenticeship. We will commune in our homes, because ancestor would not want it any other way.
Offerings:
-Cocina Criolla: Puerto Rican cooking from the diaspora w/Jasmine Gomez

-Sancocho Dominicano w/ Taina Vargas
-Fermented Foods: Ancient Germination Practices w/bellx
-Kitchen of the Orisha: Using the food of our ancestors to heal the heart and sacral chakras w/ Kea'nia Gulley
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Cocina Criolla: Puerto Rican Cooking in the Diaspora w/Jasmine Gomez
This workshop brings together traditional Puerto Rican recipes with a twist from the diaspora. Puerto Rican food is comes from a mix of cultures - African, Taino and Spanish. In this workshop, we will explore how our food is shaped by all of these roots. We will learn how to make achiote (annatto) oil, adobo + sazon dry seasoning mix, and sofrito for the base of our meals. Using those ingredients, we will then collectively learn about and create traditional Puerto Rican dishes such as arroz con gandules, pollo guisado, yuca fritas, platanos, y guineos en escabeche to share.


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Sancocho Dominicano w/ Taina Vargas-Sosa
Sancocho is a hearty meat and vegetable stew traditional to many Spanish-speaking countries throughout the Caribbean and Latin America. The ingredients (including the type and amount of meat) used to make sancocho vary from country to country, and even regions within a country. In the Dominican Republic, sancocho is eaten in community (during the holidays and on weekend get-togethers). Sancocho is one of the first foods given to women after given birth, and some people even swear it’s a cure-all for hangovers. Sancochos are dense in nutrients and are great for cold winter months.


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Fermented Foods: Ancient Germination Practices w/ bellx
This workshop brings together traditional fermented recipes that have been preserved by the native people of mesoamerica and communities around the world. An introduction to fermenting any vegetable, or fruit drink at home to improve overall health, gut flora, digestion, boost immunity and naturally preserve delicious foods. From the magick of fermented drinks like tejuino and curtido, we will drink, eat, and create fermented foods that you will be able to take home with you to heal your gut + ancestors.
Kitchen of the Orisha: Feed Your Soul the Way you feed your Belly
Black women hold witness to the trauma of our experiences on American soil, while our bodies, and souls, are the birthplace of communities. The internalization of these experiences leaves us ill-equipped to heal ourselves and the communities we love. Blackbird Bliss is an exploration of feeding chakras directly connected to nurturing the power of women. Looking at the sacral and heart chakras, we will love on each other while we discuss the importance of this healing modality, identify signs of imbalance, and work with foods to awaken our divine energy. Spirituality, sexuality, health, and mental fortitude are all connected. This space will explore this interconnectivity while learning recipes and rituals to take care of ourselves as women of color.
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la  mala yerba

formerly SEED, ROOT + BLOOM
  • home
  • about
  • offerings
    • 9 month plant + ancestor journey >
      • welcome
      • before we gather
      • module 1
      • module 2
      • module 3
      • module 4
      • module 5
      • module 6
      • module 7
      • module 8
    • bipoc herbal immersion
    • traditional abortion, survivor + TGNC care
  • reparations
  • contact
    • booking