A reflective, hands-on session inviting participants to explore healing practices as mutual aid using plants often labeled as “invasive”. Together, we will recreate 2–3 recipes in person, such as mugwort tincture and stinging nettle balm. Involving the following techniques: making tinctures, ferments, balm/salves, and discussing safe foraging techniques. Through these gestures of transforming “unwanted” plants into “healer” kin, we will turn narratives of exclusion into gestures of care. In this workshop, we tenderly go about the task of getting to know our more-than-human neighbours, learning their stories of migration, and in engaging with them through the theme of healing justice, create avenues for kin-making.
This workshop was developed during the Baltan Laboratories Fellowship 2025-26, Yi and Esh was working on materialising the Native Non Native Kinship Handbook as a digital platform, please see: nativenonnative.hotglue.me
This project was kindly supported by Baltan Laboratories and Cutuur Eindhoven
