Episode 5: Reconnecting People and Plants with The Seed Sistas
In this episode of the Therapeutic Landscapes podcast, Rebecca speaks with Kaz and Fi from Seed Sistas, clinical herbalists and green witches whose work is rooted in reconnecting people with plants through story, science, sensory experience, and everyday herbal wisdom.
The conversation begins with their own journey into herbal medicine, and the moment they realised just how disconnected many people had become from the plants growing around them. Common herbs and weeds such as dandelion, nettle, dock, rosemary, sage, and hawthorn are often overlooked, dismissed, or treated as background greenery, yet Seed Sistas invite us to see them as plant kin, medicine, teachers, and companions.
Kaz and Fi speak about the importance of relationship. For them, herbalism is more than learning about what a plant does, it is also about slowing down, observing, tasting, smelling, drawing, naming, dreaming, and allowing the plant to become part of your world. Through theatre, costume, folklore, sensory exploration, and what they describe as modern plant folklore, they help people move beyond abstract information and into direct, embodied connection.
This episode explores how plants can support physical wellbeing, emotional resilience, ecological care, creativity, empowerment, and belonging. It also touches on kitchen witchin’, herbal first aid, plant personification, and the simple but powerful act of getting to know what grows around you.
This conversation is a reminder that the hedgerow is never just a green boundary, and the weeds in the garden are never just weeds. They are stories, medicines, relationships, and invitations back into the living world.
Bio:
The Seed SistAs are clinical herbalists and green witches.
They bring forward the whole conversation between humans and plants, the science and the story, the molecule and the myth. To honour the goddess of healing alongside the clinical.
Links:
Website: seedsistas.co.uk
Instagram: @seed_sistas
Herbal First Aid E-guide: Access here