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. We answered Guelph 4 Palestine’s SEEDS OF SOLIDARITY fundraising call, which aims to support food sovereignty in the face of genocide for Palestinian and Sudanese Farmers. 100% of sales from our bundles will contribute to the wider fundraising collective of 65+ earth workers.
Together we are raising funds for Revive Gaza’s Farmlands’ (@apnorg) and ‘we must plant’ (@sudaneseresistancefront @sudansolidaritycollective)
What’s in your Bundle?
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 :)
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.
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!
