mandana boushee * ماندانا بوشی

Mandana's exploration of plant medicine began in her childhood kitchen, where she first encountered the sound of the mortar and pestle finding rhythm and the smell of rue and angelica smoke curling up from the altar. As co-founder and educator at Wild Gather, she has the deep pleasure of sharing her love and experiences with plant medicine— threading her Iranian traditions and rituals into all facets of her herbal practice.

 

Bridging land, plants, and poetry, Mandana weaves together the wisdom of ecology, community organizing, and the power of storytelling, drawing on two decades of experience as an ethnobotanist, writer, educator, and community herbalist. Whether through her care-work as an herbalist, her advocacy for farmers through the Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust, or her poetry, the heart-mycelium feeding Mandana's work remains clear: to connect, heal, and protect through the land and the stories that shape it.

 

When she's not actively tending her utopic future seeds, she can be found freaking on a puzzle, laying it down at scrabble, reading 5 books at once and drinking tea from the samovar at her crib.