‘Wort’ is an old word for a plant used as food or medicine. It describes the plants that feed and heal us. This journal is for lovers of weeds and wildflowers. It is for those who honour plants as kin and those working to make change at the root. Each issue collects contributions from persons working in ways that resonate with the long traditions of world-entangled, community-embedded folk herbalism.
Wort platforms plantwork that is deeply holistic and intersectional, always striving to understand the bigger picture. Plantwork that roots itself in the heritage of common knowledge and in relationship with the land.
In this copy, Marco has contributed a long essay exploring the cultivation of the medicinal Chaga fungus in open woodland settings, reflecting on some of the philosophical and moral questions surrounding this nascent area of mycoforestry.
Beautifully illustrated 96 page independently published journal with pen and ink drawing throughout.
‘Wort’ is an old word for a plant used as food or medicine. It describes the plants that feed and heal us. This journal is for lovers of weeds and wildflowers. It is for those who honour plants as kin and those working to make change at the root. Each issue collects contributions from persons working in ways that resonate with the long traditions of world-entangled, community-embedded folk herbalism.
Wort platforms plantwork that is deeply holistic and intersectional, always striving to understand the bigger picture. Plantwork that roots itself in the heritage of common knowledge and in relationship with the land.
In this copy, Marco has contributed a long essay exploring the cultivation of the medicinal Chaga fungus in open woodland settings, reflecting on some of the philosophical and moral questions surrounding this nascent area of mycoforestry.
Beautifully illustrated 96 page independently published journal with pen and ink drawing throughout.
