On Relating to the Land (with Lori Snyder)

In this episode, Celine and Maria talk with Métis plant educator and herbalist Lori Snyder on healing our relationship to the land, guerrilla gardening as decolonization, the wisdom of plants, and aligning our personal practices with the creativity and abundance of the living world. Lori shares a wealth of wisdom on living in wonder and reciprocity with the earth in an age of climate crisis, and our joyful responsibility for reverence and integrity with our non-human relations. We’re so excited to share this enlivening conversation with you!

Transcript available: http://bit.ly/3aqdb91

Where to find Lori online:

Facebook page: Earth Awareness Realized Through Health, Instagram: @earthandcompany

Lori’s website: https://www.lorisnyder.co/. Lori also has an online course on medicinal plants available here: https://foraging.teachable.com/p/medicinal-plants-of-the-pacific-northwest. Alongside with Laura Cisneros, she leads “In Harmony With Nature” as Artist in Residence at Hastings Community Centre (https://inharmonywithnatur.wixsite.com/inharmonywithnature).

Articles about Lori:

“Metis Herbalist and Educator Lori Snyder on Urban Foraging and Food Sovereignty” on Food Network: https://www.foodnetwork.ca/food-network-insider/blog/metis-herbalist-educator-lori-snyder-urban-foraging-food-sovereignty/

“Vancouver Métis herbalist helps seed reconciliation with medicine wheel garden” on Vancouver Sun: https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/vancouver-metis-herbalist-helps-seed-reconciliation-with-medicine-wheel-garden

Episode Notes & Annotations:

Lori and Celine reference Robin Wall Kimmerer, especially her book Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants.

Lori mentions Bruce Lipton when talking about the quantum field of living things, who is a biologist, writer and speaker whose groundbreaking work bridges science and spirit. Here’s a captivating essay Celine found, called “Embracing the Immaterial Universe” on his website: https://www.brucelipton.com/embracing-the-immaterial-universe/

Lori mentions the detrimental effects of monocrops in the prairies, which this article in Briarpatch explores in depth as connected to settler-colonialism: “Decolonizing Ecology”: https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/decolonizing-ecology

Celine references Randy Woodley’s use of “Eurocene,” rather than “Anthropocene,” which is from a presentation Randy gave at Inhabit Conference 2020 called “Welcome to the Eurocene: How White Supremacy is Driving Humanity to Extinction.”