Hello! Welcome to episode one series THREE! of Prompted by Nature. It’s so lovely to be back and speaking with some amazing people who I know you will love.
A few updates from me before we start. Things have been busy on this side of things as Benfield Valley Project becomes an official CCG (regular listeners will know this story but you can catch up with the goings-on with this in most of my solo episodes), and I’ve also been getting more involved with the Climate Change pressure group Parents for Future.
I’m also really excited that I’m going to be launching my Patreon very soon! This is something I’ve toyed with the idea of for a while; I knew I wanted to begin to create more of a community around the podcast and the work that I do on my website, social media and in my online and in-person sessions but really wasn’t sure how it would work. I’ll be using Patreon as more of a membership platform so look out for all the information in my newsletter, the first of which I’ll be sending out next week (sign up via my website), and on social media and I’ll go into a bit more detail about the offerings in the next episode.
Due to all of this, I’ve decided that episodes will be released every two weeks rather than every week, just to give myself a bit of breathing space. I’m so excited about upcoming conversations and am so happy to be back at it again after a lengthier break than I had anticipated!
So back to today’s conversation. Today I speak with the wonderful Rebecca Lazarou, otherwise known as Las the Plant Scientist.
Rebecca is a medicinal plant researcher at Kew Gardens, an editor for the academic Journal of Herbal Medicine, science teacher at schools of herbalism including Botonica, a writer and educator. She is also the proud founder of Laz The Plant Scientist, an educational platform for holistic wellness, science and plant medicines and where she’ll soon be offering her gorgeous botanical creations.
In this conversation we talk about:
You can find Rebecca on Instagram @laztheplantscientist and sign up for her newsletter over on her website www.rebeccalazarou.com
As always you can find me over on Instagram @prompted.by.nature or on my website www.promptedbynature.co.uk where you can find all the details of my upcoming in-person outdoor creative writing sessions and creativity day retreats as well as my online versions of these offerings. My Thursday evening session is the highlight of my week and I’m considering starting another Monday night one. Please do join in when you can.
