{"product_id":"wort-issue-4","title":"Wort: Issue 4","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\u003eIn this issue:\u003cbr\u003eCassidy McKenna – Pivoting to the Peripheral: What Medical Herbalism Training Programmes Might Learn from the Plants\u003cbr\u003eAn essay exploring the current approaches to sustainability and allopathic medical care taken within Medical Herbalism training programmes and questioning whether they equip current students for the realities of practicing in a time of ongoing genocide and ecocide under late stage capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCatherine Glavina – The Little Fir Tree\u003cbr\u003e(Poem) Inspired by a fairy story by Hans Christian Anderson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHannah-May Batley – Patterns of Perception\u003cbr\u003eAn experiential journey with Blackberry: a story of how surrender to being with other kin and to the senses disrupted the epistemological frame and provoked the emergence of new forms of perception and sensuousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIsa Symancyk – Of the Heart: Linden and Cordials for Modern Times\u003cbr\u003eThis article delves into the original applications and historical conception of cordials as a heart-affirming medicine and offers an understanding of why this neglected preparation might also suit today’s challenges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKudzai Ruzvidzo – Growing Munyadzagudo Red Maize\u003cbr\u003eGrowing and preserving indigenous Red Maize for food, drink and medicine in Masvingo district, Zimbabwe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarco Tenconi – Cultivating Chaga: Reflections on New Frontiers in Mycoforestry\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on recent research for an industry report, this article looks into the cultivation of the medicinal Chaga fungus in open woodland settings, reflecting on some of the philosophical and moral questions surrounding this nascent area of mycoforestry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlants, Mushrooms and Resistance Collective – Project Focus: Plants, Mushrooms and Resistance\u003cbr\u003eSupporting herbal knowledge and resilience in radical movements in Europe through autonomous collective gatherings for herbalists and mycophiles to connect, learn together and exchange.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSophia Handler – Reishi for Life and Death: Connecting with the Humans Between It All\u003cbr\u003eReflections on meeting Reishi, a facilitator of transition and connection with cycles, informed by experiences of being supported by Reishi during pregnancy and motherhood, and inspired by the work of Dominik Einfalt, who collaborates with Reishi to create a new rite for death and burial.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTsitsi Mareika Chirikure – Echoes of an Uprooted World\u003cbr\u003eTracing an evolving relationship with Himalayan balsam, a plant that has been deemed ‘invasive’, this piece asks if and how we, in this society, can find kinship with the lives we have been taught to uproot, and how this can transform our relationship with plants, place and each other.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wort","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53395076415825,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0826\/6478\/4209\/files\/Wort-4-front-cover-steel-blue-grey-scaled.png?v=1774609861","url":"https:\/\/thecommonpress.shop\/products\/wort-issue-4","provider":"The Common Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}