About this Event
Do you know your white-dead nettle from regular nettle? Or the magic of mugwort? What nourishing offerings do our green spaces have that we normally just walk by?
Join herbalist Rasheeqa Ahmad for a foraging walk at Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, where we will explore the histories and politics of plant medicine.
Rasheeqa Ahmad (@HedgeHerbs) is a herbalist in her community in Walthamstow in north London. She has been practicing since 2012, offering treatment with herbal medicine and teaching about its many aspects, alongside a wider mix of work whose aim is connecting us as communities with the potential of this knowledge and craft as a way to develop healthier living systems and relationships. She has contributed writing to artist publications around these themes and has presented talks around the histories and politics of plant medicine and healthcare.
Rasheeqa is inspired by her early involvement with the Radical Herbalism Gathering in exploring how to make plant medicine accessible and restore balance to its practice in the contexts of systemic inequalities and oppressions that are part of our shared histories. She comes from a family lineage of herbal medicine practitioners in Unani Tibb, who continue to practice this in northern India.
She is an instigator of the Community Apothecary in her locality, a project that brings community members together around a patchwork of medicinal herb gardens where we can learn about growing, wildcrafting and making medicines together, which are then available to the community. The vision is to co-create thriving mutual healthcare systems, sharing knowledge, peer support and the model so that we can create landscapes of healing everywhere.
www.hedgeherbs.org.uk/community-apothecary/
https://fothcp.org/
https://www.ideastore.co.uk/local-history-whats-on-current-exhibition
PLEASE NOTE ONLY LIMITED CAPACITY AVAILABLE
Image: Martin V Morris
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park, Southern Grove, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00