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The Elder Tree is a not-for profit organisation, empowering people through grassroots herbal education.
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Ep. 194: Weight a minute... is this healthy!? (opens the original)
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Eating "clean." Skipping breakfast for intermittent fasting. Feeling guilty after carbs. They sound like healthy habits… but are they? In this episode, Cat Green sits down with naturopathCasey Conroy to pull apart the blurry line between wellness culture and disordered eating, and why so many of us- health-conscious folk and practitioners alike- are missing the red flags hiding in plain sight. Casey shares why disordered eating is so much more commonthan most of us realise, especially when restr
193. When our plants don't belong: Musings on displacement, herbalism and colonialism with Stephanie Hazel (opens the original)
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This special edition episode is a reflective field note from Gruyere, Switzerland, where Stephanie Hazel explores what it means to meet ancestral plants in their native landscape while living in a different country. The episode moves between family history, herbal medicine, ecology, and the emotional tension of belonging, loss, and rediscovery. The conversation centres on how plants like dandelion, nettle, elder, plantain, and willow reveal both ecological function and cultural memory. It also a
192. At-Risk Medicinal Herbs: Monica Francia on Permaculture Herbalism (opens the original)
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What does it mean to love medicinal plants while participating in an industry that can also place them under threat? In this episode, I sit down with herbalist, naturopath, medicine maker and herb farmer Monica Francia of Hop Valley Herb Farm to explore a conversation I believe we need to be having much more often in herbalism: the conservation of at-risk and endangered medicinal plants. Herbal medicine is often assumed to be inherently sustainable because it is “natural”, but our medicines exis
191. Herbal Shamanism and Kisses from Mel Gibson EPISODE RE-RELEASE: Linda Bates on Herbal Education (opens the original)
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Linda Bates is a fourth generation herbalist who trained in 19 schools around England and the Mediterranean. She was in clinical practice for 4 decades and is a truly inspirational herbal elder in Australia. I met Linda about 12 years ago, at Pindari farm in Tasmania at a week-long medicine making intensive which was taught by her and Sandra Parker (who I interviewed in episode 17). They were carrying on Ken Atherton's legacy. This episode is my first re-release and I do so for sad reasons. less
190. Terrence McKenna & The Psychedelic Boom: John O'Connor on Sacred Herbalism (opens the original)
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In this episode, I speak with journalist John O’Connor about his book A Short Strange Trip and Terence McKenna’s influence on the psychedelic movement. We explore McKenna’s ideas, the “stoned ape” theory, and the tension between psychedelic mysticism and modern medicalized use.John also shares a deeply personal perspective on psychedelic therapy through his father’s experience with ketamine and psilocybin, opening up a thoughtful conversation about expectation, complexity, and harm reduction. We
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