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Dining Halls Now!

For an End to the Privatization of Nourishment

Oct 20, 2025 • Dave Meesters

Radical Vitalism

ten years later

Sep 27, 2025 • Dave Meesters and Janet Kent

The Map Is Not the Medicine: Defending Holistic Care in a Time of Skepticism

The COVID-19 pandemic has made fraud in the wellness space impossible to ignore. It also gave skeptics new ammunition to call herbal and holistic…

Sep 15, 2025 • Dave Meesters

Who Gets to be Healthy?

An herbalist considers the future of health care.

Sep 11, 2025 • Janet Kent

The Web of Care: A Holistic Health Worth Fighting For

Imagine a net—woven from many strands, each connected, each reinforcing the others. A net doesn’t depend on a single thread to bear the strain; its…

Mar 10, 2025 • Dave Meesters

Recent posts

Reclaiming Holistic Health from the Wellness Grift: Part One

The years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic have been challenging for holistic health practitioners who are deeply committed to public…

Mar 5, 2025 • Dave Meesters

The Ecology of Extraction

After Hurricane Helene, there was much discussion of which geographic features contributed to the catastrophic impact of the storm.

Feb 12, 2025 • Janet Kent

Posts from the Hurricane Helene Recovery Zone

Feb 1, 2025 • Janet Kent

Everything Matters

Why this is no time for cynicism

Jan 23, 2025 • Janet Kent

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