Walking The Plant Medicine Path with John Slattery — WildFed Podcast #041

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In this episode:

John Slattery | Bioregional herbalist, forager, educator, and author

Podcast discussion:

  • Introducing John and his local bioregion

  • John's personal journey with plants

  • Feeling proximity of spirit in the desert

  • The indigenous people of the desert southwest

  • All about the Saguaro cactus

  • About John's work

  • Communication with plants

  • Calm in the chaos

  • Spiritual vs scientific approach to plants

  • John's four directional model of knowledge gathering

  • Developing meaningful relationships with plants

  • How to work with John


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Meet John Slattery

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John is a bioregional herbalist helping people develop relationship with wild plants. Seeking out local traditional knowledge and fostering relationships with traditional healers John works towards keeping traditional knowledge alive while embuing it with new perspective gleaned through deep relationship with plants. He founded Desert Tortoise Botanicals, a bioregional herbal product company, in Tucson, AZ in 2005 in order to bring his wildharvested plant medicines to the people of the Southwest. He maintains his Vitalist clinical practice in Tucson, AZ and offers plant walks, foraging expeditions, field trips into Sonora, Mexico, and his annual Sonoran Herbalist Apprenticeship Program featuring multi-day field study excursions into the mountains of Arizona and Sonora. He enjoys traveling to new bioregions, learning new plants, and to encourage people to become bioregional in their approach.  

John received training with herbalist Michael Moore at his Southwest School of Botanical Medicine, and at the North American Institute of Medical Herbalism. 

Website | Instagram @johnjslatteryherbalist | Facebook

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