Periagoge
Scenario

When online herbal learning conflicts with generational plant knowledge within families

My teenage daughter started learning herbalism online during the pandemic and now she's correcting my plant identifications and questioning remedies I learned from my own mother, and I'm proud of her curiosity but also feeling like everything I thought I knew is being undermined by someone who's never actually touched these plants.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Digital access to plant wisdom creates tension between embodied traditional knowledge and internet-acquired information across generations.

Your guide for this
Dipa
Dipa works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Herbal medicine across traditions?”

Peri

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