Plant Cunning Podcast

In this episode we go deep with herbalist, author and green witch Robin Rose Bennett on grief, meaning, the power of the story, Rose, Artemesia, White Pine, Cedar, and much more! Robin Rose Bennett is a story-teller, writer, herbalist and green witch. She shares Earth wisdom with gratitude for the magic and mystery of the web of life. She is the author of A Green Witch’s Pocket Book of Wisdom - Big Little Life Tips, Healing Magic- A Green Witch Guidebook to Conscious Living and The Gift of Healing Herbs - Plant Medicines and Home Remedies for a Vibrantly Healthy Life, and the forthcoming A Young Green Witch’s Guide to Plant Magic - Rituals and Recipes from Nature. #herbalism #podcast #herbal #herbalife #herbalmedicine #greenwitch #wtich #magick #plantcunningpodcast #spiritualpodcast

In this episode we talk about getting the most out of your woodstove - cooking, baking, hot water, and more. Ben compares rocket mass heaters and masonry stoves to high-efficiency wood stoves, and shares why he uses a wood stove, how he cuts all the wood he needs for a year, manages his woodlot, and shares some wisdom gleaned from over two decades of permaculture homesteading. Check out Ben's workshop on wood stoves here: 2023 Wood Heating Intensive — Whole Systems Design And the new edition of his book The Resilient Farm and Homestead, Revised and Expanded Edition: 20 Years of Permaculture and Whole Systems Design can be found where ever books are sold! Ben developed Whole Systems Design, LLC as a land-based response to biological and cultural extinction and the increasing separation between people and elemental things. Life as a designer, builder, ecologist, tree-tender, and backcountry traveler continually informs Ben’s integrative approach to developing landscapes and buildings. His home landscape and the WSD studio site in Vermont's Mad River Valley serve as a proving ground for the regenerative land developments featured in the projects of Whole Systems Design. Ben studied architecture and landscape architecture at the graduate level and holds a master’s degree in land-use planning and design. He has conducted more than 650 site development and land inspection consultations across the US and abroad, and has facilitated dozens of courses on property selection, permaculture design, and resilient systems. He has given keynote addresses and presented dozens of workshops at venues ranging from Bioneers to the Omega Institute. Ben is the author of the award-winning book The Resilient Farm and Homestead (Chelsea Green, 2013) and serves as an Advisory Council for the international regeneration group Ecosystem Restoration Camps.

Today we interview Sara Mastros ( @SaraMastros  ) on her new book "The Sorcery of Solomon: A Guide to the 44 pentacles of the Magician King" from Red Wheel Weiser ( @redwheelweiserbooks366  ) Sara Mastros, author of Orphic Hymns Grimoire, The Big Book of Magical Incense, and The Sorcery of Solomon: A Guide to the 44 Pentacles of the Magician King, is Pittsburgh's leading Witch for Hire. She teaches tarot, witchcraft, Greek and Near Eastern mythology, Pan-Levantine folk magic, and practical sorcery online and at festivals all over the east coast. She’s also a co-owner of the Fool’s Dog family of tarot, lenormand, and oracle apps! You can check in on her courses and lessons at WitchLessons.com, sign up for her newsletter at MastrosZealot.com, or follow all her witchy shenanigans on facebook at Facebook.com/Sara.Mastros The Key of Solomon is a family of closely related historic grimoires legendarily attributed to Solomon, the biblical Magician King. Most famously, Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers’s 1889 English edition presented forty-four Hebrew seals, commonly called the “planetary pentacles.” However, it offered very little guidance for how to work with them. Sara L. Mastros, a leading teacher and practitioner of magic, translates and interprets each of these pentacles and presents practical methods for working with their magical powers, creating a clear, accessible user’s guide. #pentacles #sorcery #magic #magicpodcast #spiritualpodcast #podcast #solomon #solomonic #pentaclesofsolomon #magick #dream #dreaminterpretation #dreaming #keyofsolomon

In this episode we have a pleasant chat with the Village Witch of Asheville, NC, Byron Ballard herself about her new book Small Magics: Practical Secrets from an Appalachian Village Witch published by Llewellyn in 2023, and her new new book coming out this year. We talk about our intentions for 2024, plants we're excited about growing, places we plant on travelling to, and much more! #podcast #plantcunningpodcast #appalachian #hoodoo #smallmagic #llewellyn #folkmagic #newyear #newyearresolutions

Find Paul at: https://www.paulrezendes.com/ Paul is recognized as one of the country’s leading animal tracking experts. Many of his students have gone on to write their own books, established their own nature schools, and have contributed greatly to the growth of tracking as sound citizen science in North America. Paul and Paulette retired from teaching in early 2004 to devote their energies full time to their stock and fine art photography business. Concurrently with teaching tracking through the nature school, Paul also established himself in the world of nature photography, amassing a library of over 100,000 images. In between teaching engagements, he traveled by van to photograph wildlife and their habitats as often as possible. Eventually the woods, fields, rivers, lakes, mountains and seashores drew Paul more strongly in the direction of landscape photography than wildlife. #awakening #selfrealization #spiritualpath #spirituality #selfinquiry #nonduality #podcast

Join us and ZamboniFunk ( @zambonifunk  ) and our new puppy Persimmon for a sneak peek at the astrology of 2024, with a focus on the winter quarter. We've got #pluto going in and out and back in for the final time into #aquarius and we talk about the importance of that 0* Aquarius point. We talk about the epic solar #eclipse on April 8th, and the implications thereof, about how this is a #mars year big time, and what this year is leading up to. #astrology #astrologypodcast #podcast #forecast #astrologyforecast #2024 #yearahead #plantcunningpodcast

Isaac an AC go over their year, from tasting tropical fruits in South Florida, studying Vedic astrology, going to the Rainbow Gathering, and the successful launch of the Plant Cunning Conference.

Find Priya at: https://cosmicdiaries.com/ Born in Mumbai, in a lineage of Vedic astrologers, Priya Kale is a NYC based Western astrologer with a worldwide clientele and readership, in professional practice since 2006. Her horoscopes and work have been published in various outlets including Cosmopolitan, Astroguide for Vice Media, Astrology.com, Horoscope.com, Astologyzone, Yahoo! Australia, CondeNast Traveller, Moonology and here at Cosmic Diaries. She has also spoken at various major Astrology Conferences, in the US and internationally, and is working on her book on Chiron, based on 15 years of research and experience. She is currently also studying Jyotish in the Sri Achyutananda Parampara, and Ayurveda, meditation, Vedic studies under the guidance of ther Guru, Amma Karunmayi. #chiron #astrology #podcast #amma

Christina Stapley ( Medical Herbalist Christina Stapley | Herbalist Workshops & Books) has grown more than 300 herbs, for over 45 years. Her third of an acre teaching garden in Hampshire was featured on television on numerous occasions, most recently she had appeared on Autumnwatch and the Antiques Road Trip, and was popular with visiting groups inspired by her talks. Her herbal practice has encouraged a growing enthusiasm for work in preventive medicine through herbs, diet and lifestyle. This has led to writing both Interactive and Essentials courses on Ageing Successfully, available by email. Now retired as a practitioner, she currently teaches the History of Western Herbal Medicine, Pharmacognosy and Materia Medica for the School of Herbal Medicine in Bridgwater. Christina has written three books on growing and using herbs, Herbwise Naturally, Herbcraft Naturally and Herb Sufficient. Each work is supremely practical with many recipes and background information. Her children’s book The Lemonade Tree for ages 2-6 years is about the animals and birds in the herb garden. Her more recent books on trees in herbal medicine have added experience abroad to a life in herbs. Her new book, A History of Plant Medicine Western Herbal Medicine from the Ancient Greeks to Modern Day is to be released by Aeon Books in late November 2024. #herbalism #history #herbalist #herbalmedicine #podcast #plantmedicine

Find Dr. Vest at http://www.drjenniferlisavest.com/ @spiritteacher on IG "I come from a long line of seers. My mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother on the maternal line and my grandfather and great-grandmother on the paternal side all had the gift of sight. As an infant, my great-grandmother Lula-Mae, identified me as the one who had carried the gift into the next generation and began training me as a child. Born with the gifts of clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, and mediumship, I was able to develop these gifts through long study and practice at the hands of many teachers. I studied informally with women several healers in the Jamaican Revivalist and Trinidadian Shango traditions (including Mother Joyce, Sister Nelson, Mother Barrett, Queenie, Sister Grant, Mother Mavis, Mother Vilola, Mother Wright, Mother Robinson and others) and was trained as a Firekeeper in the Native American sweatlodge by Pheonix. I also studied with veteran mediums and healers at Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp in Cassadga, Florida where I took classes in psychic development, mediumship, healing, and trance for five years with such teachers as Maeda Jones, M.A., Mary Rose Gray, RN. Marie Wilson-Gates, Joan Piper, and Suzanne DeWees, PhD, among others. I became a Reiki Master under a Reiki Master, Marie Gates an have also taken classes in Pranic Healing, Transformational Hypnosis, and other modalities. I also spent ten years undergoing past life regressions in order to develop an understanding of the impact past lives have on current lives. I am a former professor of Cross-Cultural Philosophy where my areas of specialization were African and Native American philosophy. My PHD is in Ethnic Studies/Indigenous Philosophy from UC Berkeley. I have several publications on topics in philosophy, social justice, and poetry. As a mixed blood Of Haitian, Seminole, German, and Norwegian heritage, I combine what I have learned from African, Caribbean, and Native American spiritist traditions, and Euro-American Spiritualist traditions into what I practice. In all that I do I am guided by Spirit and I do my best to be a pure vessel and a hollow bone." #reiki #herbalism #plantcunningpodcast #herbalist #herbalmedicine #medicalintuition #medicalintuitive #psychicprotection #psychic #spiritualist #spirtuality #medium #clairvoyance #podcast