[caption id="attachment_266933" align="aligncenter" width="307"] Khanh Hoa Nguyen, editor of From Mothers to Mothers: A Collection of Traditional Asian Postpartum Recipes[/caption]

Tonight’s theme is holistic healing. How do different forms of healing—traditional, cultural or borrowed—serve us? What challenges do they face in a Western world?

We talk with Khanh Hoa Nguyen and the Asian American Pacific Islander Health Research Group [1] on the research process for From Mothers to Mothers [2], their new cookbook of Asian recipes for postpartum mothers.

We also talk with Elokin Orton-Cheung, founder of Shooting Star Botanicals [3], about the healing power of plants and her efforts to decolonize herbalism.

And Quincy Surasmith from the podcast Asian Americana [4], asks questions about self-determination in health and economic sustainability. He talks to both farmers and consumers involved in an Asian American, community-supported, agricultural program called Roots CSA [5].

Community Calendar

Next Thursday, Housing Now! is hosting a statewide day of action [6] to stop speculation and displacement. A two-part action takes place in San Francisco at the McDonald’s on 235 Front St. Meet there next Thursday at 4 p.m. for protest and again at 5:30 p.m. for community education and organizing.

[1] https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~aapihrg/

[2] http://www.asiabookcenter.com/store/p1385/FROM_MOTHERS_TO_MOTHERS%3A_A_Collection_of_Traditional_Asian_Postpartum_Recipes_.html

[3] http://www.shootingstarbotanicals.org/

[4] http://www.asianamericana.com/

[5] http://www.rootscsa.org/

[6] https://www.facebook.com/events/1356681507719122/