The Civil Liberties and Public Policy program at Hampshire is hosting an amazing lot of Fall 2015 events. One of which is a Papaya Workshop, or “how to use a manual vacuum aspirator using a papaya as a uterine model,” with me, from the Boston Doula Project! I’m lucky to have the week between on-call…
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A Full-Spectrum Fertility Chart
A few weekends ago, I had the opportunity to teach first year apprentices at the CommonWealth Center for Holistic Herbalism while the school’s co-directors, Katja and Ryn, were out in Colorado at the American Herbalist’s Guild Symposium. It was a really fun weekend. Kim from Blue Vervain Farm facilitated children’s health, my beloved roommate Gavin…
Boston Doula Project partners with Company One Theatre
Emerging as the Lena Dunham of the theatre world, 21-year-old playwright Ruby Rae Spiegel — a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn prize — writes a brazen, no-holds-barred play about that time in your life when no one else can possibly understand what you’re going through. A story about abortion, bad jokes, bathing suits, and…
A spiral staircase of Reishi
I’ve come across Ganoderma tsugae in many forests across Massachusetts this summer. Happy autumnal equinox.
Herbs for Pregnancy and Birth Workers
Herbs for Pregnancy and Birthworkers Wednesday, September 16 2015, 7-9pm. $20 (or a donation to the Boston Doula Project) At the CommonWealth Center for Holistic Herbalism in Brookline, MA Are you pregnant, or hoping to be, and wondering how to safely and effectively use herbal remedies? Do you work around pregnancy and wish you knew…
Herbstalk 2015!
Check it out. I hope all the Boston-area folks interested in herbs can stop by Herbstalk this weekend. There is a FREE marketplace, herbal vendors, classes for all levels and interests. I’ll be tabling with my beloved school. The CommonWealth Center for Holistic Herbalism. Come say hi!
How to get kids (and their parents) to eat wild greens
I was recently invited to host an herb walk for the birthday party of a five-year-old budding herbalist. Among learning about medicinal and edible flowers, leaves and roots that grow in her area at this time of year, she requested a few interesting herbal snacks. Dandelion fritters! While searching for my dandelions for this recipe,…
Meet the Doulas Night at Mama & Me
Doula Information Night Wednesday, April 8 2015, 6-8pm. FREE. At Mama & Me in the Brewery in Jamaica Plain http://www.mymamaandme.com/doula/ PART I: WHAT IS A DOULA? DO I NEED A DOULA? | 6:00-7:00PM Join other new and expectant parents for a night of FREE education on what a doula is, what a doula does, and how…
Next Doula Information Night
Parents in the Boston area should be made aware of Mama and Me, a space that holds events and classes for young families in Jamaica Plain. They offer a range of prenatal, postpartum and child development classes, including some free events! Upcoming on Wednesday, April 8 from 6-8pm will be their next FREE Doula Information…
Simmons College holds FREE Screening of The Vessel
More about this event for those of you who use Facebook. I will be attending this screening, representing the Boston Doula Project and speaking a little about what we do before the film. Susan Yanow, local reproductive rights activist, will also be in attendance and I am very excited to hear her speak. About The…