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#8 One of the Last Gullah Medicine Men and Life Everlasting with Jalen Gordon
In today's episode, you hear from Jalen Gordon, one of the last Gullah bush medicine man in America.
Jalen discusses in this interview:
1. The sacred indigenous and Gullah wild herb life everlasting (Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium).
2. How his love for plants and nature started at 7 years old.
3. The struggles he faces as an African American foraging in the wild.
4. How his family, especially his Mom, and culture shaped and helped him become a medicine man.
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