47: Justin Robinson on being a Country Gentleman, Cooking, Playing Music and Plant Medicine

Justin Robinson, aka Botany Bae is a profound teacher regarding wisdom of the plants and merges ethnobotany, language, history and culture into his understanding, storytelling and plant identification lessons. He is also a remarkable musician and cook. Be sure to connect with his journey and support his work!

Justin Robinson Links:

https://www.instagram.com/countrygentlemancooks/

https://earthseedlandcoop.org/

Thymelights:

https://www.instagram.com/gullahgeecheeherbs/

https://earthseedlandcoop.org/

Links Mentioned in the show:

https://www.instagram.com/gullahgeecheeherbs/

https://www.instagram.com/undergroundplant.trade/

https://www.instagram.com/asoulfultouchwellness/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/19/technology/facebook-youtube-twitter-black-lives-matter.html

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https://www.instagram.com/thymeinthestudiopodcast/

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https://www.etsy.com/shop/AidaZeaArts

https://www.facebook.com/groups/403582056803336/

https://www.aidazea.com

Contact me: [email protected]

Music by komiku

Topics covered in this chat:

Dendrology

Importance of teaching

Pivoting suring covid

Online offerings

Teaching on instagram

Background with the harp

Joanna Newsom

Alela Diane

Harp speaks to Heaven

Self care

Doing things for self

Busy mind

It took a long time for things to be this way, it will take a long way for things to not be this way

capital/financial resources

Lift the burden

Space for solidarity and healing independently

Do our own work

Future farmers of Amaerica-racialized history to it

Separate institutions

There is no such thing as black and white

Ethnicity and place

Terminology

Use of language

Soil, weather conditions

Different beliefs

Unexamined ideas

Race as a political identity that was weaponized

Get under a banner and forget where you come from

Black as a Term of solidarity

Also problematic as it erases culture, geography and the true complexity of a group a people and does a disservice to all people

White people haven’t escaped

Ancestral

Assimilation and being able to “pass”

Ancestry work

Honoring ancestors

Questioning Whiteness and Blackness as oversimplifications

Reclaimed term by the community

Is this a name we came up with ourselves?

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