Our Story
Our offerings
seek to trace the socio-political, ecological history of plants & people to track & uncover the ways in which they have been related to, colonized, or taken out of the right relationship over time.
Our aim is
to increase collective intimacy with plants many of us interact with daily. Often these are plants whose recent histories include violence & exploitation: maíz, coffee, cacao, sugar, indigo, cotton, tobacco & others. We can uncover this intimacy through understanding their original constellation of relationship & ethnoecology.
Through Herban Cura we seek to create access to ancestral wisdom - both through the rematriation of indigenous life-ways and also through remembrance and reclamation of how to live in solidarity with the earth and with our human and more-than-human kin. We believe this knowledge puts us on the path to healing by remembering what it means to be in direct and balanced relationship to the plants and more-than-human beings that cohabitate with us on the land.
We understand this work of remembrance and reclamation to be decolonizing and abolition work. This work is in service to dismantling white supremacy, settler-colonial logics, transphobia, ableism, homophobia, and human supremacy wherever it lives in us and within our communities.
Our educational offerings of knowledge shares and immersions provide a forum for exploration of healing traditions, practices, and relationships from diverse cultural and ecological contexts, with content ranging from demonstration of applied skills and preparation of foods and remedies, to people’s histories and cosmologies, all presented as interwoven diasporic legacies. We prioritize and center Black, Indigenous, people of color, as well as queer and trans facilitators and participants.
Our product offerings contain crafts that are embodiments of the knowledge and wisdom we have received from our human and plant ancestors, and which continue to be explored and modulated through our interdisciplinary art practice.
We do not offer ceremony through our online platform and we do not accept financial exchange for ceremony.