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.
Digital access to plant wisdom creates tension between embodied traditional knowledge and internet-acquired information across generations.
“Where Are You with Herbal medicine across traditions?”
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