In this episode, Dennis Walker and Ash Ritter dive into the world of the infamous Amanita Muscaria mushroom, as well as learn about the wild desert apothecary of fungi and herbs that she researches and teaches about.
Ash Ritter is a west coast born, desert-dwelling ethnobotanist, educator, writer, mutli-disciplinary animist, and poet in disguise as herbalist. For 20 years and counting, she continues to reverently devote her life to fungal & botanical studies, encompassing traditional, academic, clinical, and directly relational terrains. She counsels and creates in her private practice, Black Sage Botanicals, to empower cooperative sovereignty, engaging a direct relationship with & as the living world.