Growing Herbs and Folk Herbalism

Free School for Farmworkers presents: Growing Herbs and Folk Herbalism with Flynne of Mariquita Medicinals and Letty of Flying Dog Heart Farm

Are you herb-curious? Do you rely on herbs for wellness and want to offer that access to others? Interested in creating networks of care? Then join us for this conversation!

Monday, March 9 at 4 PT / 7pm ET on zoom.

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Accessibility information: This session will be facilitated in English and simultaneously interpreted into Spanish by Cooperativa Brujúlas. Closed captioned will also be available.

Co-hosted by Not Our Farm, UW-Extension, and FairShare CSA Coalition. Please note that Free School for Farmworkers sessions are a farmworker-only space. *We define a farmworker as someone working on a farm they do not own, for or without pay, including interns, apprentices, cooperative workers and aspiring farmworkers. If you have questions about whether you are eligible to participate, please contact Anita Adalja at anita@notourfarm.org

Free School for Farmworkers strives to create pockets of opportunity to skill share, connect and learn about parts of agriculture that can be overlooked, forgotten or hoarded due to the nature of working on farms under capitalism.

Flyer designed by Alma Valdez-Garcia

About our speakers:
Flynne Olivarez (she/her) of Mariquita Medicinals
Flynne is a queer 3rd generation Mexican-American living on unceded Clackamas, Cowlitz and Multnomah land in Portland, Oregon since 2005. Flynne was born on Chumash and Tongva land in southern CA and before that, her family members came from so-called Chicago, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas, and before that, Michoacan, Chihuahua, Sicily, and Apache land/pre-colonized New Mexico.

Flynne navigates this landscape as an herb and flower farmer, community folk herbalist, flower arranger, seed-saver, land steward, community learner, teacher and collaborator, bird spotter, altar builder, posole guzzler, moon gazer, sun worshipper, bath lover, and aspiring abolitionist.

Mariquita Medicinals was founded in 2019, and continues to be an ever-evolving herb and flower farm and small-batch apothecary. The mariquita (ladybug in Spanish) is an inspirational symbol of determination and resilience. Flynne believes that all of us can and should have access to natural and ancestral ways of healing that allow us to lessen our grip on capitalism when it comes to taking care of ourselves and each other. As Flynne tends land collectively and continues to deepen her relationships with plants and people, she is committed to learning alongside others who aim to cultivate healing, joy and reciprocity, while centering and prioritizing land justice, indigenous wisdom and ancestral knowledge, community care/mutual aid, collective liberation, and transformative justice.

Power to the people and liberation to the lands of Palestine, Congo, Haiti, Sudan, Hawaii, Phillippines, Venezuela and everywhere our voices are silenced, our experiences erased and our bodies disposable.

Letty Martinez of Flying Dogheart Farm
Letty Dogheart (they/them) is an herbalist, landworker reconnecting Coahuiltican, and disabled veteran. They grew up in Chicago and have a background in community health education and advocacy. Letty has been living and growing in Portland for the past 13 years and land tending in the Rocky Butte area for 11 yrs. They raise rabbits for meat and hens for eggs and grow a variety of veggies and medicinal herbs. Letty is passionate about sharing lessons from the land with community and supporting community empowerment with taking steps toward reclaiming traditional ways of being in relationship with land and beings human and beyond.