Wort: Issue Three
Wort Issue Three, Summer ’25
Jahia LaSangoma – Poem: The Forager
Poem: Survival, seasons change, release and transformation among the herbs of Northern Spain.
Lorna Mauney-Brodek – Project Focus: Herbalista
Pour a cup of tea and join us as we build community through herbalism! Let’s do some herbwork together…
Matilde Wyrdlea with Martin Baxter – Plant Medicine and the Tarot: High Priestexx-Viola
The third in a series looking at Tarot and Plant Medicine as allies to psycho- emotional health and exploring tarot through a trauma-aware lens.
llewyn máire – viriditas calling
A poem and accompanying glossary exploring the nature of boundaries in relation to a trauma-informed personal history. This piece is also an invocation of the author’s deepening relationship with the land, language and plant kin of Ireland.
Harul Vinay – The Flowering, The Offering and the Sting of the Divine
Formative to Western Himalayan society and culture is the ancient interplay between the forest and the village, the plant and human realms. This article explores this relationship in its mundane and sacred dimensions through the folklore and traditions of three traditional herbs: the Buraans, the Paaja and the Bichu Booti.
Philippa Swann – A Fairy Tale
An errant forage into the mysterious world of Gaelic plant names, lost herbal knowledge and Highland folk tales, precipitated by a chance encounter with the irresistibly named Fairy Flax. The story of this tiny wildflower invites a timely remembering of the close relationship the people of the Scottish Highlands once had with this landscape and flora.
Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson – Four Poems Carrying Ways to Remember
These four poems tap into the wellspring of wisdom found in the cataclysmic ruptures of ancestral heart-break ::: Poems that journeyed me through personal and collective stories of deep love, grief, connection and belonging with the land ::: Here, I honour the power of breath as anchor, as accomplice, as portal ::: I honour my mother and her child-relationship to plant life growing up in Xaymaca (Jamaica) ::: I honour what it means to be ‘well’ in this lifetime ::: fi wi
Garden Loops – The Ruderal Garden
The Ruderal Garden is an experimental garden, started in late spring 2024 by the art and architecture collective Garden Loops (Alexandra Papademetriou, Poppy Bell, Natalie Blom and Mercè Torres) in collaboration with Färgfabriken Konsthall. Garden Loops is one gardener and shares this role with the birds, insects, animals and plants already here in Lövholmen, Stockholm.
Illustrations:
. Ross Fleming (henstongue.com)
. Libby Bove (libbybove.com)
. Harul Vinay (menelvegor illustrations)
. Denise Conroy (votiveillustration.ie)
Wort Issue Three, Summer ’25
Jahia LaSangoma – Poem: The Forager
Poem: Survival, seasons change, release and transformation among the herbs of Northern Spain.
Lorna Mauney-Brodek – Project Focus: Herbalista
Pour a cup of tea and join us as we build community through herbalism! Let’s do some herbwork together…
Matilde Wyrdlea with Martin Baxter – Plant Medicine and the Tarot: High Priestexx-Viola
The third in a series looking at Tarot and Plant Medicine as allies to psycho- emotional health and exploring tarot through a trauma-aware lens.
llewyn máire – viriditas calling
A poem and accompanying glossary exploring the nature of boundaries in relation to a trauma-informed personal history. This piece is also an invocation of the author’s deepening relationship with the land, language and plant kin of Ireland.
Harul Vinay – The Flowering, The Offering and the Sting of the Divine
Formative to Western Himalayan society and culture is the ancient interplay between the forest and the village, the plant and human realms. This article explores this relationship in its mundane and sacred dimensions through the folklore and traditions of three traditional herbs: the Buraans, the Paaja and the Bichu Booti.
Philippa Swann – A Fairy Tale
An errant forage into the mysterious world of Gaelic plant names, lost herbal knowledge and Highland folk tales, precipitated by a chance encounter with the irresistibly named Fairy Flax. The story of this tiny wildflower invites a timely remembering of the close relationship the people of the Scottish Highlands once had with this landscape and flora.
Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson – Four Poems Carrying Ways to Remember
These four poems tap into the wellspring of wisdom found in the cataclysmic ruptures of ancestral heart-break ::: Poems that journeyed me through personal and collective stories of deep love, grief, connection and belonging with the land ::: Here, I honour the power of breath as anchor, as accomplice, as portal ::: I honour my mother and her child-relationship to plant life growing up in Xaymaca (Jamaica) ::: I honour what it means to be ‘well’ in this lifetime ::: fi wi
Garden Loops – The Ruderal Garden
The Ruderal Garden is an experimental garden, started in late spring 2024 by the art and architecture collective Garden Loops (Alexandra Papademetriou, Poppy Bell, Natalie Blom and Mercè Torres) in collaboration with Färgfabriken Konsthall. Garden Loops is one gardener and shares this role with the birds, insects, animals and plants already here in Lövholmen, Stockholm.
Illustrations:
. Ross Fleming (henstongue.com)
. Libby Bove (libbybove.com)
. Harul Vinay (menelvegor illustrations)
. Denise Conroy (votiveillustration.ie)
Wort Issue Three, Summer ’25
Jahia LaSangoma – Poem: The Forager
Poem: Survival, seasons change, release and transformation among the herbs of Northern Spain.
Lorna Mauney-Brodek – Project Focus: Herbalista
Pour a cup of tea and join us as we build community through herbalism! Let’s do some herbwork together…
Matilde Wyrdlea with Martin Baxter – Plant Medicine and the Tarot: High Priestexx-Viola
The third in a series looking at Tarot and Plant Medicine as allies to psycho- emotional health and exploring tarot through a trauma-aware lens.
llewyn máire – viriditas calling
A poem and accompanying glossary exploring the nature of boundaries in relation to a trauma-informed personal history. This piece is also an invocation of the author’s deepening relationship with the land, language and plant kin of Ireland.
Harul Vinay – The Flowering, The Offering and the Sting of the Divine
Formative to Western Himalayan society and culture is the ancient interplay between the forest and the village, the plant and human realms. This article explores this relationship in its mundane and sacred dimensions through the folklore and traditions of three traditional herbs: the Buraans, the Paaja and the Bichu Booti.
Philippa Swann – A Fairy Tale
An errant forage into the mysterious world of Gaelic plant names, lost herbal knowledge and Highland folk tales, precipitated by a chance encounter with the irresistibly named Fairy Flax. The story of this tiny wildflower invites a timely remembering of the close relationship the people of the Scottish Highlands once had with this landscape and flora.
Lateisha Davine Lovelace-Hanson – Four Poems Carrying Ways to Remember
These four poems tap into the wellspring of wisdom found in the cataclysmic ruptures of ancestral heart-break ::: Poems that journeyed me through personal and collective stories of deep love, grief, connection and belonging with the land ::: Here, I honour the power of breath as anchor, as accomplice, as portal ::: I honour my mother and her child-relationship to plant life growing up in Xaymaca (Jamaica) ::: I honour what it means to be ‘well’ in this lifetime ::: fi wi
Garden Loops – The Ruderal Garden
The Ruderal Garden is an experimental garden, started in late spring 2024 by the art and architecture collective Garden Loops (Alexandra Papademetriou, Poppy Bell, Natalie Blom and Mercè Torres) in collaboration with Färgfabriken Konsthall. Garden Loops is one gardener and shares this role with the birds, insects, animals and plants already here in Lövholmen, Stockholm.
Illustrations:
. Ross Fleming (henstongue.com)
. Libby Bove (libbybove.com)
. Harul Vinay (menelvegor illustrations)
. Denise Conroy (votiveillustration.ie)
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Hellebore
210 × 148 × 6 mm, 94 pages. Perfect binding.
About the Journal
Wort is an independent journal of grassroots and radical herbalism. Published twice-yearly, it offers a platform and a resource for those working with plants in ways that resonate with the long traditions of world-entangled, community-embedded folk herbalism. Contributions range from poetry to polemic, with beautiful illustration throughout.
