FEGHALI is a cultural worker and folk herbalist who lives between her ancestral village in Lebanon and California, where she was born and raised. Her work is about restoring relationships to earth-based ancestral wisdom as an avenue towards eco-cultural stewardship, healing, and liberation. Feghali’s methods emphasize plants of place and lineage - or “plantcestors”. Her company, River Rose Re-membrance, features a line of plantcestral medicine, education, and other culturally-rooted offerings. Feghali's book The Land in Our Bones, documents cultural herbal and healing knowledge from Syria to the Sinai, while interrogating colonialism and its lingering wounds on the culture of our displaced world. The book features her Plantcestral Re-Membrance methodology as an emergent pathway towards cultural repair within herbalism, while engaging nuanced conversations about identity, loss, and exile, and the critical importance of tending the land and life where we are to restore the fundamental integrity of our earth. With it, she has self-published Plantcestral Medicine of Canaan & the Crossroads, a visual companion book full of medicinal profiles and gorgeous drawings of each plant featured in this text. You may find it at her website.
