The Heart Is a Field, Aflower: Foraging for connection - a podcast by Kathryn Fink

What if foraging is, at its heart, about connection? What shifts when we approach relationships with plants as we do humans—and vice versa? What happens when we shift away from the idea of wild spaces that are magical because they are untouched, to living spaces that are magical because we are part of them?

We visit with wildcrafting customs and beliefs in order to glean wisdom for belonging, discomfort that can sometimes arise from connection, and the giving and receiving of genuine kinship.*** Help keep The Heart Is a Cauldron alive through 2022 by joining the Patreon https://bit.ly/3fYJ5sG ***

II 0:02 II Opening spell-prayer-poemII 1:19 II Intro
II 4:32 II HearthtendingII 7:17 II The ethics of foraging and the honorable harvest via Robin Wall Kimmerer
II 12:52 II How humans have learned the who and where of foragingII 18:24 II How to approach and gather plants ways that honors their divinity, and our own
II 28:01 II How to treat what we harvest after the gathering in, so the entire process becomes a sacred actII 30:07 II"O viriditas digit Dei"composed by Hildegarde, and recorded by the group Canty, with thanks to Sono Luminus https://bit.ly/3yGWiR0
II 36:35 II Intro to wildcrafting our personal and collective healing journeysII 37:32 II Our innate ability to connect and belong, and the importance of lived experience
II 43:33 II Culpability vs. communion and feelings of guilt that often arise within relationshipII 46:57 II When we fully awaken to all the aliveness and magic that is woven into true relationship, we can’t help but want to give back

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Honorable Harvest quote from Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererHua Tuo tale adapted from https://bit.ly/3m9pzQKSlovenian tale of plant speech from The Blessing of Herbs on Bonfires by France Kotnik
Background image: “Village girl at a wayside shrine” by Antoni KozakiewiczTranscript available at https://bit.ly/3AB0JNM

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