The Good Dirt: Sustainability Explained

129. Foraging & Feasting: Food, Medicine, and Herbal Healing with Dina Falconi

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Meet Dina Falconi, herbalist, teacher, and author, of Feasting and Foraging. In this episode, we hear about her journey toward leading a meaningful, healthy life and finding natural medicine through food. Specializing in permaculture and herbal healing, Dina explores about how we can make changes in our everyday lives to improve our physical, mental, and spiritual health.

Topics discussed:

  • Dina's journey with plants beginning at age 11 in the East Village of NYC
  • Micky Carter, Dina's early mentor
  • Worked and studied at an herb company with Pam Montgomery, https://www.wakeuptonature.com/about/
  • William Lassasier--herbal teacher
  • Earthy Bodies and Heavenly Hair
  • Dina's work in the Hudson River Valley, NY creating virtual teachings with her son and filmmaker Sam Falconi
  • How Dina shares content on digital media without a cellphone
  • Dina talks about living without a cellphone
  • Claire Dunn Episode
  • Dina's clinical herbalist is connected to food activism and foraging
  • How do city dwellers experience wild foods?
  • Ecosystem stewardship and land care are big themes for foragers
  • A discussion about invasives
  • Mugwort
  • The process of creating Foraging and Feasting
  • Wendy Hollender / illustrator for Foraging and Feasting
  • Plant foraging and healing with herbs as a growing topic of interest/ the "hipster wave"
  • Knowledgeable foraging can create more biodiversity and abundance in the landscape
  • Slow living as plant literacy, observing nature's processes
  • Botanical Arts Press
  • Dina Falconi's YouTube Channel
  • In the Wild Kitchen


    • Connect with Dina Falconi 

    • Instagram @foragingandfeasting
    • Facebook @ForagingFeasting
    • Dina's Website, www.botanicalartspress.com
    • Foraging and Feasting by Dina Falconi, Illustrated by Wendy Hollender


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