193. When our plants don't belong: Musings on displacement, herbalism and colonialism with Stephanie Hazel

This special edition episode is a reflective field note from Gruyere, Switzerland, where Stephanie Hazel explores what it means to meet ancestral plants in their native landscape while living in a different country. The episode moves between family history, herbal medicine, ecology, and the emotional tension of belonging, loss, and rediscovery. The conversation centres on how plants like dandelion, nettle, elder, plantain, and willow reveal both ecological function and cultural memory. It also asks a bigger question: how do we listen to the land we live on, especially when we are not indigenous to it?

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