Fight the Power, Do No Harm

Cool podcast alert! FtPDNH is a story of the Black Cross Health Collective, a group of street medics who lived in and around Portland, OR. They formed after the WTO protests of 1999, seeing a need for medical care that served people who were attending direct actions, demonstrations, and political protests. In the early 2000s they pioneered community-supported trials to find a remedy for pepper spray. Missy was part of the podcast, having been a Black Cross member & a pepper spray trial subject.

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Podcast appearance alert!

Missy returns to The Herbalist’s Path, Mel Mutterspaugh’s engaging podcast, to talk about her unique style of teaching and how much fun it is to be a matchmaker for people and their plant buddies.

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Medicine Garden Newsletter - January 2016

I hope everyone is well and enjoyed the wintry mix that descended on town. I personally love that the slightest bit of snow shuts the city down. I love hunkering down with a good book, a lap kitty or two and extra blankets. Doing art projects with the kiddos. Resting and eating the stash of garden potatoes in the garage.  And I love that winter is the time for dreaming and scheming....

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