Herban Cura’s Living Library is a digital school for deepening studies of history, ecology, ancestral memory, and land-based lifeways.
The Living Library houses 90+ Knowledge Shares.
For more than 5 years, Herban Cura has been building an archive of knowledge shares in collaboration with our constellation of facilitators.
From workshops on herbal healthcare to cosmology, these resources are vital to unearthing and exploring the entangled relationships between people, place, and plants.
The Living Library’s commitment is to creating learning opportunities that celebrate lived experience and center justice.
What’s inside the Living Library
The Living Library not only contains the particle knowledge we need in the material world for mutualism and abundance, but equally as important, skills we need for the invisible aspects of community; tools for the inner work and interpersonal work that makes repair possible.
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Mycelium as Methodology’, Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez
Shade is A Place: Shade Equity & Arboreal Stewardship, MaKshya Tolbert
Herding: What Equine Histories Can Teach Us About Being Together, Bitter Kalli
Cacao: history, culture, ethics and politics, Pilar Egüez Guevara, PhD
Getting Sh*t Done Together: Resentment and Repair, Dean Spade
On the Origins of Capitalism and the Enclosure of the Commons, Dr. Silvia Federici
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Wellness as an act of Decolonization, Fariha Róisín
Keys to Indigenous Resilience: Culture, Values, and Place, Dr. Michael Kotutwa
Women, witches, and the ongoing struggle for land and food sovereignty, Dr. Silvia Federici
Salt, Rice, and Sorghum: Evading and Embracing the Soucouyant, Giselle Liza Anatol
Ancestral Plants of Palestine, Michelle Nazzal
Regional Distinctions in Palestinian Dress: Late 19th/Early 20th Centuries, Wafa Ghnaim
Dixza: 'Words from the Clouds'—Weaving a Way of Life, Dr. Samuel Bautista Lazo
Coconuts, Oilseeds, and Reading Diaspora in Landscape, Jayson Maurice Porter
Opium Medicine: Traditional Knowledge, Imperial Terror and a Lifeline for Resistance, Shabina Lafleur-Gangji
Biomimicry Beekeeping: Nature-Inspired Solutions for Thriving Bee Communities, Alysia Mazzella
Bioremediation for Healing Lands & Waters: Transforming the Toxic Legacies of Occupation, Leila Darwish
Black Perspectives on the Anthropocene: Fashion, Food, & Water, Dr. Sha’Mira Covington
West African Tropical Ancestral Medicine, Joshua Kwaku Asiedu
Geographies of Black Plant-Fibers and Dyes, Teju Adisa-Farrar
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Supporting people through abortion: a mutual aid practice, Serpentina
Ecological Sanitation: Who deals with our crap, who doesn't, and why?, Sarah Nahar
Somatics as Liberation Work, Dr. Tayla Shanaye
Om Sleiman Farm: Resistance Farming In Palestine “We Plant Seeds Knowing We Will be there for the Harvest”, Yara
Palestine: Ecology, Waste, Siege, Dr. Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins
The African Roots of Cannabis: Ecological, Social and Political Histories, Dr. Chris Duvall
Palestinian Seed Stories: To Eat Alone is to Die Alone, Vivien Sansour
Architects of Abundance: Indigenous Regenerative Food Systems and the Excavation of Hidden History, Dr. Lyla
Bread in Palestine: Wheat Began Where My Blood Began, Amanny Ahmad
Militarism and the Environment: Impacts on Palestine, Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh
Indonesian Origins of Tempe(h): Healing Our Relationship with Soybean, Ria Ibrahim
Wild Plants of Palestine and Japanese Knotweed: Exploring Territorial Extensions, History and Colonization, Alaa Abu Asad
Seed of Creation: Exploring the Seat of Our Power, Renée Camila
Olives & History Through a Palestinian Indigenous Framework, Dr. Lila Sharif
Winter Tree Medicine, Jade Alicandro
Harriet Tubman, Her Herbalism Practice, & Reclaiming Our Relationship with Plants, Arvolyn Hill
Interwoven: Irish Ancestry in Diaspora, Maebh Aguilar
Myco Eco Mytho: Embodied Ecology & Interspecies Storytelling, Sophie Strand
Home-Making with Fire, Jiordi Rosalesz
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Filipinx Lineages of Rice, Ritual, & Resistance, Kai Delgado Pfeifer
Sweeten Our Days: Apple & Honey Magic for the Days of Awe, Dori Midnight
Black Legacies of Sustainability & Urban Farming , Dr. Sha'Mira Covington
Caribbean Food, History & Culture, Christine Mahoney
Auspicious attention: on prophetic awareness, miracles and birds, brontë velez
Black Earth Wisdom: Afro-Ecological Survival Strategies, Leah Penniman
Botany Autonomy: Phytoestrogens & Ecosystems of Endocrine Exchange Between Plant & Animal Worlds, Ayelet Hashachar
Demystifying Fermentation, Sandor Ellix Katz
Growing Cannabis as a Houseplant, Mennlay Golokeh Aggrey
Indigo: From Korea to The Americas, Sarah Gotowka
Limpias & Baños: Self-Care Practices of Curanderismo, Atava Garcia Swiecicki
Policing Our Environment: How Policing Controls Access to Nature and Degrades Our Environment, Teju Adisa-Farrar
Mother of All Lands: Plants of Power, Purpose, and Resistance in Kiskeya (Quisqueya, Dominican Republic and Haiti), Suhaly Bautista-Carolina
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Akantu: Earth Being, TIOKASIN GHOSTHORSE
Botanical Spirits: Alchemy, Economy, and Intuition, Rachael Petach
Bundle Dyeing as a Healing Ritual, Cara Marie Piazza
Cultivating Wholeness: Embodied Essences and the Spiritual Effects of the Clothes We Wear, Sha’Mira
Haitian-Thai Food Medicine Crossovers, Saeng-Fah
Halamang Gamot, Introduction to Philippine Folk Remedies, Angela
Herbs for Fire Season, Renée
ndigenous Equine Relations and Histories, Kelsey Dayle John
Introduction to Plantcestors of the Levant + SWANA, Layla Kristy Feghali
Making Lake Pigment with Wild Plants, Karla Claudio-Betancourt
Naga (Serpent) Mythology, Gowri Varanashi
Plant Medicines of the Caribbean, Brandon Ruiz
Plants as a Bridge: Rooting in Jewish Time, Ancestral Plant Magic & Ourselves, Mazal/Maz Masoud Etedgi
Telling the Bees: Honeybees as Oracle for Transformation, Ang Roell
Poison Medicine, Catherine Feliz and Botánica Cimarrón
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22 Keys of Initiation: Union of Divination and Plant Medicine as a Tool for Liberation , Elsie
Nut and Seed Butters, Ava Zarich
Telling the Bees: Honeybees as Oracle for Transformation, Ang Roell
The Carekeepers, Tusha Yakovleva
Chiles and Mexico: The Art of Making Mole, Pipián Verde, Sofia Florencia
Intuitive Bread Making: decentralizing and re-centering our dough, Lexie Smith
Wisdom from the Sea: Seaweed Remedies, Jade Alicandro
Pain Pollen: The Story of Cotton, Dr. Claudia J. Ford
Grow a Row of Calendula, Deb Soule
Cannabis Infusions & Diaspora: A Reconnection to Ancestral Plant Magic, Mennlay Golokeh Aggrey
Miso in Love With You: Creating Dialogue with Microorganisms Through Miso, Fumiha Tanaka
Winter Tree Medicine, Jade Alicandro
Brewing Medicinal Pique (Fire Cider), Frances A. Pérez-Rodríguez
Ghee: Golden Medicine, Sandeep & Nalini Agarwal
Disturbance Ethnobotany, Tusha Yakovleva & Sarah Howard
To Sip & To Savor: Mastering the Time-Old Ritual of Making Medicinal Bone Broth, Vilda Gonzalez
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Natural Dyeing with Organic Flowers & Kitchen Scraps, Cara Marie Piazza
Xococatl: Re-membering Cacao, Sofia Florencia
Tenochtitlan to Tortilla, A Hands-on History, Sofia Florencia
Membership Models
Rather than purchase an individual Knowledge Share for $45.00, consider continuous support for Herban Cura and substantial savings by becoming a Living Library member.
$19 monthly
Living Library Biannual
What's included:
✓ Live Knowledge Shares
✓ Knowledge Shares Archive Access from 2025 - 2026
✓ Discounts from partners like Yesfolk, Kestral Herb Farm & Redback
$350 yearly
Living Library Full Access
What's included:
✓ Live Knowledge Shares
✓ Access to the Entire Knowledge Share Archive - over 90 total and growing by the month.
✓ Discounts from partners like Yesfolk, Kestral Herb Farm & Redback
What people are saying
“I felt in this space a depth of respect and honor for all of our relations. Human, plant, and the interconnected complexities of time, history, biology, and emotion (life itself). Thank you, thank you…the subject matter was presented in a way that was an experience, not just information to listen to and digest, relevant, honoring history as it exists in us today.”