Seeds of Solidarity: Earth-Art Bundles
We are proud to share this earth-art collaboration between the Wild Queer Abolitionist Collective (WQAC), Alison Cooley at imp in a sweater, Naty Tremblay, Alia Fortune Weston, Robyn Ford and Dani Hagel at Eramosa Herbals.
Guelph4Palestine’s Seeds of Solidarity fundraiser aims to support food sovereignty in the face of genocide for Palestinian and Sudanese farmers. Together we are raising funds for Revive Gaza’s Farmlands’ (@apnorg) and ‘we must plant’ (@sudaneseresistancefront @sudansolidaritycollective). 100% of sales from our bundles will contribute to the wider collective of 65+ earth workers who are part of the fundraiser.
You’ll get a bundle of original, handmade, earth-art pieces. Gift these lovelies to yourself, or gift them to your loved ones!! These bundles are limited-run, so get them quick before they go :)
What’s in your Bundle?
Bundles are available for pick-up only in Guelph or Toronto. Send an email to eramosaherbals@gmail.com with the name of the bundle you wish to order. You’ll be prompted to send an e-transfer with payment, and given an address for pick-up in your preferred city. Note that prices listed are a suggested minimum; please feel free to give generously to these important initiatives.
How to Order
Bundle #1: Freedom Spell
Organic homegrown tea, homemade soap, and an abolition pomegranate print. Minimum price $30
Solidari-Tea pouch handmade by Dani Hagel (Eramosa Herbals) and Naty Tremblay. This sweet and floral, locally grown, organic tea includes tulsi, beebalm, calendula, lemon balm and linden. Cover a large pinch with boiling water and let it infuse for at least 5 minutes. Add some honey for an extra sweet sip!
Hand-crafted soap surprise made by Robyn Ford from Grass Roots Soaps. You’ll get either a Calendula or Lemongrass soap. Calendula soap includes calendula infused olive oil, coconut oil, shea butter, lye, castor oil, litsea cubeba essential oil. Lemongrass soap includes coconut oil, shea butter, olive oil, lye, castor oil, grapefruit seed extract, and lemongrass essential oil.
‘Freedom Spell’ lino print, which invokes peace, kindness, care and abolition. The lino was designed and cut by Alia Fortune Weston at a WQAC workshop about abolition, and was printed by Naty Tremblay. This is a signed run of prints that come in red or blue colourways.
Bundle #2: Sowing Seeds of Tomorrow
2oz calendula and comfrey healing salve, a hand crafted ceramic vessel, a plant-dyed cloth, and a native pollinator seeds bundle. Minimum price $70
Healing salve handmade by Dani Hagel at Eramosa Herbals. This beautiful 2oz all-purpose salve contains organically home grown calendula flower and comfrey leaf, as well as poplar buds and cedar leaf harvested from fallen branches, infused in olive oil. Use as a gentle topical application to soothe dry skin, bites, scrapes, to reduce swelling and aid regenerative healing, wherever your skin could use a little love.
Solidarity Seeds bundle is filled with perennial pollinators collected by Naty Tremblay. Native pollinators give shelter and food to native butterflies, moths, and bees. Sow these seeds in late fall to promote the health and biodiversity of our local eco-system in Ontario. The bundle includes a mix of: Blanket flower, Boneset, Joe Pye Weed, Catnip, Snakeroot, Wild Bergamot, Bee Balm, Yellow Tansy, Meadow Rue, Blue Vervain, Echinacea, White Yarrow, Gay Feather, Milkweed, Evening Primrose.
Plant-inspired ceramic vessel hand-crafted by Alison Cooley of ‘imp in a sweater’. Alison creates illustrated, storytelling ceramics using hand building techniques, and unique sgraffito illustrations which are hand-drawn into clay. Pieces include cute hand-built, grey speckle-glazed candle holders, bud vases, and dishes; as well as little sgraffito illustrated dishes. Please note that each bundle will contain a unique, surprise ceramic item!
Plant-dyed keepsake cloth. Each vintage cloth was hand-dyed by Alia Fortune Weston with organically grown flowers from the ‘Inflorescent Hues’ botanical dyes garden, rescued and remediated plants, and extra gifts from ‘just a lil guy’ micro-florist, and Eramosa Herbals. Each cloth has a unique colourful pattern, layered over a cute little vintage cross stitch. Dyed with marigold, amaranth, onion skins, wild grapes, elderberries, buckthorn berries, goldenrod, cosmos, dahlias, Use this little piece of magic as a napkin/ hanky/ alter cloth/ wall hanging – any way you like!
2oz calendula and comfrey healing salve, organic homegrown tea, homemade soap, an abolition pomegranate print, a hand crafted ceramic vessel, a plant-dyed cloth, and a native pollinator seeds bundle. Minimum price $100
Bundle #3: Abundance
Want one of everything? We got you :) This bundle contains one of each of the items described above.
Alia Fortune Weston is an earth-artist, educator, flower diviner and plant alchemist. At Inflorescent Hues herbal and botanical dyes garden (at Eramosa Herbals), Alia collaborates on non-colonial artmaking with the plant babes. @inflorescenthues
Alison Cooley, imp in a sweater, is a traditional and digital illustrator working with ceramics, maps, patterns, knitwear and game design. Alison works with storytelling across design, museum, and art-education settings. @impinasweater
Dani Hagel is a femme interdisciplinary artist, herbalist, field naturalist and wildlife tracker. Dani stewards a one-acre herb garden, Eramosa Herbals, that is home to a diversity of plant and animal life, an artist residency, plant nursery, and more. @eramosaherbals
Naty Tremblay is a transgender seed sower, forest grower, earth worker, transformative justice practitioner, abolitionist, educator and multidisciplinary artist for social change currently doing a PhD at the University of Guelph. @civilcyborg
Robyn Ford creates handmade soaps with soothing ingredients. Robyn was inspired to start Grass Roots Soaps to create healing health products to support her young family’s skin sensitivities.
Wild Queer Abolitionist Collective is an emerging collective of Queer and Trans abolitionists living, loving, and learning in the Guelph, Wellington, and Waterloo area. @wqacollectiv
