Herbs & Plants for Food & Medicine Book: Field Kitchen Guide Zine

Herbs and Plants for Food and Medicine is a pamphlet which will help you reclaim your knowledge of the Earth! This field and kitchen guide includes detailed hand-drawn images, descriptions, and uses for some of the most common plant inhabitants of the Northeast U.S., though many of them are invasive and likely to be well-spread throughout Turtle Island (North America).

• Author: Arianne Banda
• Publisher: Microcosm Publishing
• Publication Year: 2022
• Paperback
• 34 pages
• Product Dimensions: 5.5” x 4.2” x .01"

About the author: Arianne Banda is a performance artist and practitioner of Afro-Indigenous medicine. Born and raised in South Africa and descendent of the Chewa and Shangaan people of Southern Africa, she has resided in the US in recent years and currently lives in New York City. She has a BFA from Boston University and is an avid forager and creator of herbal remedies and natural body products.

She is in love with poetry, writing, painting, acting, and vocal performance, and has found that her artistic endeavors fuse well with the ideals of traditional medicine and forge a healing path.