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Living Library

A subscription based community for herbal education and collective healing

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The Living Library is Herban Cura's digital school and archive, five years in the making. It brings together herbalists, professors, seed keepers, land stewards, and investigators from around the world to explore one central question: what does it mean to be in honest, reciprocal relationship with the plants and places we inhabit?Inside, you'll find knowledge shares that don't separate plant medicine from history, culture, or justice.

Sessions range from seaweed medicine and food sovereignty to cosmology, dark sky wisdom, and Indigenous land practices — each one a thread in a larger tapestry of ecological and ancestral knowledge. New live sessions are added throughout the year, and the growing archive means there's always more to return to.

Membership is tiered to meet you where you are. Your subscription doesn't just fund your own learning — it sustains Herban Cura's mutual aid work, their Plants to the People farm, and their ongoing commitment to making this knowledge available to people who have historically been locked out of it.

Outcomes

  • Master traditional herbal medicine crafting
  • Develop intimacy with local ecologies
  • Practice collective and ancestral care
  • Identify regional medicinal plant relatives

What's included?

  • Knowledge Shares

    Members attend over twenty virtual workshops led by diverse herbalists and environmental educators.

  • Study Immersions

    Participants join multi month programs that explore seasonal medicine making and land connection.

  • Virtual Gatherings

    The community hosts poetry readings and storytelling events to celebrate collective creative work.

Who is this for?

  • Aspiring herbalists and plant lovers
  • Community organizers and social activists
  • Individuals seeking ancestral and ecological connection

About the creator

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Antonia Estela Pérez

Co-founder of Herban Cura and Clinical Herbalist

Antonia Estela Pérez is a Chilean-American clinical herbalist and community organizer based in New York City. She is the co-founder of Herban Cura and the collective known as Brujas. Her work bridges the relationships between rural and urban spaces t...