Herbs with Rosalee1 Aug 2024

Mugwort with Molly Meehan Brown + Herbal Garland recipe

This was my first time meeting Molly, and it was an absolute joy to talk with her and hear the many ways she is working with herbs to strengthen relationships and build connections. I just loved when Molly walked me through how she connects with mugwort through the five senses - what a delightful way to begin to build a relationship with a plant!

Molly shared many ways of working with mugwort, including her process for creating beautiful, seasonal herbal garlands using this dreamy plant along with other natural materials. See the resource section below to download your beautifully illustrated recipe card at: https://bit.ly/3LH1agY

By the end of this episode, you’ll know:

► How to work with mugwort to aid with dreaming and imagination

► Eight medicinal preparations that can be made with mugwort

► How the taste of mugwort can help you understand some of its medicinal gifts

► How using energetic herbalism might help you consider herbs that are not typically worked with for a particular health condition

► A fantastic tip for softening mugwort’s effects on your dreams

► and so much more…

For those of you who don’t know her, Molly Meehan Brown is a mama, folk herbalist and lifelong learner in love with relationship building between plants, land, and people. Molly is the founder of Wild Ginger Community Herbal Center, and together with her husband Javier, stewards herbal and birth programs in his native Costa Rica, in Maryland, as well as online.

Molly also founded KidsHerbalism.com, a vibrant global village of inspiring herbalists and plant people helping raise our next generation in relationship with the plants. KidsHerbalism.com app hosts an abundance of almost 200 on-demand classes and also provides brand new online classes weekly on herbalism, gardening, and nature connection for youth-centering care, healing, and justice.

Molly is a white cis female descendant of Irish settlers living on Piscataway land in Southern Maryland and BriBri & Kekoldi land in Costa Rica.

I’m delighted to share our conversation with you today!

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Rosalee is an herbalist and author of the bestselling book Alchemy of Herbs: Transform Everyday Ingredients Into Foods & Remedies That Heal and co-author of the bestselling book Wild Remedies: How to Forage Healing Foods and Craft Your Own Herbal Medicine. She's a registered herbalist with the American Herbalists Guild and teaches many popular online courses. Read about how Rosalee went from having a terminal illness to being a bestselling author in her full story here.

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