{"product_id":"wort-issue-4-copy","title":"Wort: Issue 3","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘Wort’ is an old word for a plant used as food or medicine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt describes plants that feed and heal us. The ones that maintain and make us whole.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003ePeople have had this special relationship with some plants for as long as people have been around.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e‘Wort’ names a relationship fundamental to human existence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis journal is for lovers of weeds and wildflowers. It is for those who honour plants as kin and those working to make change at the root.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eEach issue collects contributions from persons working in ways that resonate with the long traditions of world-entangled, community-embedded folk herbalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eWort platforms plantwork that is deeply holistic and intersectional. Plantwork that roots itself in the heritage of common knowledge and in relationship with the land.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeautifully illustrated with pen and ink drawing throughout.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJahia LaSangoma – Poem: The Forager\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoem: Survival, seasons change, release and transformation among the herbs of northern Spain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLorna Mauney-Brodek – Project Focus: Herbalista \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePour a cup of tea and join us as we build community through herbalism! Let’s do some herbwork together… \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMatilde Wyrdlea with Martin Baxter – Plant Medicine and the Tarot: High Priestexx-Viola\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe third in a series looking at Tarot and Plant Medicine as allies to psycho-emotional health and exploring tarot through a trauma-aware lens. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ellewyn máire – viriditas calling \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA poem and accompanying glossary exploring the nature of boundaries in relation to a trauma-informed personal history. This piece is also an invocation of the author’s deepening relationship with the land, language and plant kin of Ireland. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHarul Vinay – The Flowering, The Offering and the Sting of the Divine \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormative to Western Himalayan society and culture is the ancient interplay between the forest and the village, the plant and human realms. This article explores this relationship in its mundane and sacred dimensions through the folklore and traditions of three traditional herbs: the Buraans, the Paaja and the Bichu Booti. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePhilippa Swann – A Fairy Tale \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn errant forage into the mysterious world of Gaelic plant names, lost herbal knowledge and Highland folk tales, precipitated by a chance encounter with the irresistibly named Fairy Flax. The story of this tiny wildflower invites a timely remembering of the close relationship the people of the Scottish Highlands once had with this landscape and flora. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson – Four Poems Carrying Ways to Remember\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese four poems tap into the wellspring of wisdom found in the cataclysmic ruptures of ancestral heart-break ::: Poems that journeyed me through personal and collective stories of deep love, grief, connection and belonging with the land ::: Here, I honour the power of breath as anchor, as accomplice, as portal ::: I honour my mother and her child-relationship to plant life growing up in Xaymaca (Jamaica) ::: I honour what it means to be ‘well’ in this lifetime ::: fi wi\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGarden Loops – The Ruderal Garden \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Ruderal Garden is an experimental garden, started in late spring 2024 by the art and architecture collective Garden Loops (Alexandra Papademetriou, Poppy Bell, Natalie Blom and Mercè Torres) in collaboration with Färgfabriken Konsthall. Garden Loops is one gardener and shares this role with the birds, insects, animals and plants already here in Lövholmen, Stockholm. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wort","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53395078807889,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0826\/6478\/4209\/files\/Wort-3-Colour-Cover-for-Web.jpg?v=1774610631","url":"https:\/\/thecommonpress.shop\/products\/wort-issue-4-copy","provider":"The Common Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}