Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
- Learning plants through family traditions, oral histories, and everyday practice
- Apprenticeship, mentorship, and lineage in herbal education
- Folkways of teaching and learning: stories, songs, rituals, and seasonal practices
- Garden, forest, and land-based learning
- Self-taught herbalists and autodidactic pathways
- Formal herbal programs and alternative pedagogies
- Cross-cultural, diasporic, and migratory plant knowledge
- Learning through making: medicine preparation, foodways, dyeing, and craft
- Barriers to herbal education and questions of access, class, race, and land
- Ethical transmission of knowledge and responsibilities of learning
- Unlearning, repair, and decolonizing approaches to plant education
- How digital spaces, books, and media shape contemporary herbal learning
We also welcome these contributions from our members:
- We encourage stories from our many program participants – Partners in Education, Forest Farmers enrolled in the Forest Grown Verified program, Deep Ecology Art Fellows, Botanical Sanctuary Network, and Sacred Seeds Gardens.
- News of recent books published and accomplishments by members.
- Info on creative ways members are sharing plant knowledge via classes, podcasts, zines, poems, art and photography.
- Members can submit an ad for your school, zine, podcast, or other creative plant-based activity – at no charge – using the form below.
Submission Specifications:
- Articles should be saved as MS Word or Google Doc format. Anywhere around 1500-2000 words is good. Please include:
- A brief author bio (50–100 words) and a headshot if desired.
- Relevant images or illustrations with captions and credits (if applicable). If your article includes any inserted/embedded images, we ask that you please include the original images as separate attachments so they will print clearly.
- References or acknowledgments where appropriate.
- Artwork and photography should be saved at its original size, high-resolution 300dpi JPG files are ideal. Please rename each file with a short caption and image credit as it should appear in print.
- Display ads should measure 1080px x 1080px (standard square size for Instagram).
Submission Deadline: March 31, 2027
