About Rootwork Herbals
Rootwork Herbals is the love, work, and play of community herbalist, amanda david. Rootwork Herbals has evolved organically over the years to include various projects within herbalism that seek to build mutually beneficial relationships between people, plants, and planet.
Rootwork Herbals includes BIPOC community care clinic We Care for Us; educational offerings such as the People’s Medicine School and Woke Without the Work; a BIPOC community garden; and the facilitation of BIPOC sanctuaries at various herb/agriculture conferences.
Funds are also raised through the People’s Medicine Reclamation Fund to ensure that BIPOC folks have access to opportunities to reclaim healing through herbalism. Rootwork Herbals will continue to grow organically through the guidance of our ancestors, the plants, and our community.
amanda is a community herbalist, a gardener, the mother of three amazing children, and the creator of Rootwork Herbals and the many initiatives that are a part of that container. She tends plants and people growing gardens, handcrafting remedies, offering consultations and teaching.
Her approach to herbalism is based in the ways of her ancestors, building intimate relationships with the plants that grow nearby in order to bring herbal medicine and home healthcare to the people. In doing this, she sees herbalism as a means to support life and thus resist against oppressive systems, which undermine health. Above all, amanda is a lover of plants and a lover of people and is passionate about bringing them together in a down to earth, joyful and accessible way that promotes personal and planetary healing.
Hannah is passionate about art, herbalism, and wellbeing. Coming only second to organization and getting everyone's S*&! together.
When she's not organizing systems in rootwork, she's creating art and knitting.
Hannah lives in Ottawa with two comfort-seeking cats, a partner, and a lot of snow (6 months of the year!).
Samrah (she/they) is a lover of plants from Brooklyn NY, by way of Pakistan. She holds a BA from Brooklyn College in Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies. She is also a former student at the People's Medicine School. Samrah is a youth worker at heart, and her passion lies at the intersections of food sovereignty and gender equity work. Through her journey as a youth worker, she came to understand her passion for food justice and combating food insecurity in Black and brown communities. It is her deep love for plant medicine that guides her to do work that centers this land and all of its offerings.
Additionally, Samrah creates spaces where queer girls and gender expansive youth can use art as a means of resistance. She wants young women to feel loved, heard, and be given the resources that they deserve. In her free time, you will find her cooking her mother’s recipes, making spiritual baths, and reimagining queer girlhood.
Christina Lynch leads rootwork herbals' financial well-being. Christina has been part of the rootwork herbals' team since the beginning of 2021. She has over fourteen years of experience in management accounting, with the majority primarily focused on supporting small businesses and entrepreneurs.
She prides herself on the flexibility and non-judgmental approach she has with her clients and business partners. She can bring calm to a chaotic situation and order when things are getting out of hand.
In addition to her role at rootwork herbals, Christina is also a community herbalist, founding consultant of Trydent Consulting and Founding Co-Coordinator of Herbalists Without Borders of the Big Bend.
