{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Eatweeds Podcast: For People Who Love Plants","title":"EP51: Green Recovery - Beyond Sexual Trauma","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2848,"description":"In this powerful episode, host Robin Harford welcomes Hannah-May Batley, founder of Hedge School, to discuss her groundbreaking work in plant-based healing and community regeneration.\nHannah-May shares her journey from a post-mining community in South Yorkshire to creating a unique curriculum that addresses trauma, particularly sexual violence against women, through reconnection with nature.\nShe explains how foraging, wild food, and traditional plant knowledge can be powerful tools for recovery and resilience.\nHighlights Include\nThe origins of Hedge School and its impact on post-mining communities\nHow plant-based practices can aid in sexual violence recovery\nThe intersection of class, land rights, and healing\nPersonal insights into nature as an anchor during dark times\nThis episode offers a sensitive yet hopeful exploration of how returning to our roots - literally and figuratively - can pave the way for profound healing and community restoration.\nDon't miss this inspiring conversation about the transformative power of our connection to plants and place.\nRape Crisis Resources\nRape Crisis- England & Wales\nSurvivors Network\nRasac\nRecommended Books\nWomen Who Run With The Wolves\nThe Sun & Her Flowers\nThe Body Keeps The Score\nGirlhood\nCaliban & The Witch\nAbout Hannah-May Batley\nHannah-May is an unruly educator & the founder of Hedge School, a school that seeks to recover, reconnect & restore our relationship with kith & kin through plant-work, traditional skills & unruly education. \nShe would describe herself as a woman deeply interested in the human relationship with plants, minerals & mark-making. Hannah-may teaches foraging, community herbalism, wild food, how to forage & process wild pigments & botanical inks, preservation methods & folk medicine.\nShe is a writer with work published in several UK journals & magazines & is currently working on her first book. Hannah-May is a member of the Society of Ethnobotanist & Pigments Revealed International. She specialises...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/q91i_VcMEu2XgjHhOpIbpHKFg6BUCGYGuPfjWiss9E0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI5Njg5LzE2NDkz/MzM4MzctYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}