🌸Iya Angelique "Sobande" Greer is a Tennessee-based Herbalist, Holistic Nutritionist, Wellness Strategist, and Desert Storm Veteran of the U.S. Army. She founded the first African American School of Herbalism in the United States in 1992, the NCB School of Herbalism & Holistic Health. She is the founder of Sacred Waters Retreat, The Afro Botany Immersion Conference and co-founder of "Cook, Cure & Conjure” with Yeye Lusiah Teish. She is currently the Program Director for Earthwise Spirituality & Education founded by Priestess Stephanie Rose Bird. Sobande teaches with Ecoversity and other universities around the country. She has been writing for various herbal publications over the past 30 years, and is a leader and trailblazer in the field of African American Herbal history.

🌷Listen in as Jiling and Sobande discuss:

• The legacies of our ancestors
• Herbs and plants of the African diaspora
• Honoring sacred plants without ingesting them— such as cotton and pennyroyal
• The spiritual aspects of food, herbs, and community
• How plantain and dandelion entered Sobande’s life at a young age
• Important life-long lessons from Sobande’s great grandmother
• How “food as medicine” extends to “food as medicine” for body, mind, and Spirit
• When we ingest plants, we ingest the nutrients of our ancestors

• www.naturalchoicesbotanica.com 
• sacredwatersretreat.com

🏵️Resources:

• Sacred Waters Retreat
• NCB School of Herbalism & Holistic Health

🌿 JILING LIN is a Licensed Acupuncturist (L.Ac) and herbalist in Ventura, CA. A clinician and teacher, Jiling is also a passionate traveler, artist, and adventurer. Visit Jiling at JilingLin.com, Instagram @LinJiling, and Facebook @JilingLAc. Get her free Nourishing Life (養生) template or Five Phases (五行) outline. Join her Substack here for experimental eco-somatic writings, and sign up for her monthly newsletter here!