Course Resources

Welcome to our resources page. We have listed some of our favorite books and sources here for you to check out if you are looking for more information and study.

We will be adding to this list as the course progresses.

Herbalism

Introductory Books

  1. Gladstar, Rosemary. Rosemary Gladstar’s Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner’s Guide. North Adams, MA: Storey, 2012.

  2. Levy, Juliette de Bairali. Common Herbs for Natural Health. rev. ed. Woodstock, NY: Ash Tree, 1996. 

  3. Maier, Kat. Energetic Herbalism: A Guide to Sacred Plant Traditions Integrating Elements of Vitalism, Ayurveda, and Chinese Medicine. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2021

  4. Soule, Deb. Healing Herbs for Women. New York: Skyhorse, 2016. First published in 1995. 

  5. Wood, Matthew. The Book of Herbal Wisdom. Berkeley, CA: North 

    Atlantic, 1997.

    Additional Resources

  6. Feghali, Layla K.. The Land In Our Bones: Earth-Based Pathways to Ancestral Stewardship and Belonging in Diaspora. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2024. 


  7. Geniusz, Mary Siisip. Plants Have so Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do Is Ask: Anishinaabe Botanical Teachings. Minneappolis, MN:  University of Minnesota Press. 2015.


  8. Genuisz, Wendy Makoons. Our Knowledge is Not Primitive: Decolonizing Botanical Anishinaabe Teachings. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2009.

  9. Gray, Beverly. The Boreal Herbal: Wild Food and Medicine Plants of the North. Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada: Aroma Borealis Press, 2011. 


  10. Hughes, Nathaniel, and Fiona Owens. Weeds in the Heart. New Malden, UK: Quintessence, 2016.

  11. ---Intuitive Herbalism. 2016. 

  12. Peters, Josephine & Beverly Ortiz. After the First Full Moon in April: A Sourcebook of Herbal Medicine from a California Indian Elder. New York: Routledge, 2016. 


  13. Rose, Karen M. The Art & Practice of Spiritual Herbalism: Transform, Heal, and Remember with the Power of Plants and Ancestral Medicine. Beverly, MA: Fair Winds Press, 2022. 


  14. Salmon, Enrique. Iwigara: The Kinship of Plants and People. Portland, OR: Timber Press, 2020.

  15. Swiecicki, Atava Garia. The Curanderx Toolkit: Raclaiming Ancestral Latinx Plant Medicine and Rituals for Healing. Berkeley, CA: Heyday, 2022. 


  16. Winston, David and Steven Maimes. Adaptogens: Herbs for Strength, Stamina, and Stress Relief. Rochester, VT: Healing Arts Press, 2019.

Healing and Collective Liberation

Edited by Arnove, Anthony & Haley Pessin. Voices of a People’s History of the United States in the 21st Century. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2023.


brown, adrienne maree. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds. Chico, CA: AK, 2017.


Dunbar-Oritz, Roxanne. An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. Boston: Beacon, 2014. 


Ginwright, Shawn A.  The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic, 2022.


Giovale, Hilary. Becoming a Good Relative: Calling White Settlers toward Truth, Healing, and Repair. Brattlebor, VT: Green Writers Press, 2024. 


Gumbs, Alexis Pauline. Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals. Chico, CA: AK Press, 2020.


Haga, Kazu. Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm. Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 2020. 


Hanh, Thich Nhat. Love Letter to the Earth. Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 2013. 

---Zen & the Art of Saving the Planet. New York: Harper Collins, 2021. 


Edited by Hausdoerffer, John,  Brooke Parry Hecht, Melissa K. Nelson, and Katherine Kassouf Cummings. What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? 

Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2021. 


Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2013. 

---Serviceberry


Krawec, Patty. Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future. Minneapolis, MN: Broakleaf Books, 2022. 


Kumar, Satish. Soil, Soul, Society: A New Trinity for our Time. East Sussex, UK: Leaping Hare Press, 2013.


Lanham, J. Drew. The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2016.

---Sparrow Envy: Field Guide to Birds and Lesser Beasts. Spartanburg, SC: Hub City Press, 2021. 


Lingo, Kaira Jewel. We Were Made For These Times: 10 Lessons for Moving Through Change, Loss, and Disruption. Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 2021.


Marya, Rupa & Raj Patel. Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice. New York: Farrar, Straus and Gioroux, 2021.


Menakem, Resmaa. My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies. Las Vegas, NV: Central Recovery, 2017.  


Mitchell, Sherri. Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Based Change. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic, 2018. 


Oritz, Paul. An African American and Latinx History of the United States. Boston: Beacon, 2018. 


Penniman, Leah. Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists. New York:; Harper Collins 2023. 


Prechtel, Martin. The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic: The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic, 2012.


Raffo, Susan. Liberated to the Bone: Histories, Bodies, Futures. Chico, CA: AK Press, 2022.


Rosen, Jo-Ann. Unshakeable: Trauma Informed Mindfulness for Collective Awakening. Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 2023. 


shanaye, tayla. Nourishing the Nervous System. Loam (publishing branch of the Weaving Earth Center for Relational Education, Loam tells stories at the confluence of environmental, social and personal systems change) 2024.    www.loamlove.com,  www.weavingearth.org


Shiva, Vandana. Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic, 2015.

---Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2007. 


Williams, Terry Tempest. Erosion: Essays of Undoing. New York: Sarah Crichton Books, 2019.

---Finding Beauty in a Broken World. New York: Pantheon Books, 2008.


Yunkaporta, Tyson. Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World. New York: Harper Collins, 2020.