Books on the Garden with Atava Garcia Swiecicki
October 29, 2022 | 1:00 pm
Green Apple Books joins Atava Garcia Swiecicki for an event at the beautiful San Francisco Botanical Garden celebrating the release of her book, The Curanderx Toolkit, and sharing her deep knowledge of herbalism and ancestral healing.
The Curanderx Toolkit includes more than 25 profiles of native and adopted plants of Baja and Alta California and teaches you to grow, know, and love them. This book will help anyone who has lost connection with their ancestors begin to incorporate the herbal wisdom and holistic wellness of curanderismo into their lives. Take the power of ancient medicine into your own hands by learning simple herbal remedies and practicing rituals for kinship with the more-than-human world.
Books on the Garden is an event series collaboration between the San Francisco Botanical Garden and Green Apple Books. On the last Saturday of every month, a different literary event will take place at the SFBG with a wide variety of topics, always coinciding with and honoring nature, botanicals, and our beautiful garden setting.
Register HereAbout the Speaker
Atava Garcia Swiecicki
Atava Garcia Swiecicki is guided by her dreams and her Mexican, Polish, and Hungarian ancestors. She received a BA in feminist studies from Stanford University and a master’s degree from the Indigenous Mind Program at Naropa University in Oakalnd. Atava has studied healing arts extensively for over thirty years and has been mentored by herbalists, curanderas, and traditional knowledge keepers. She works as a clinical herbalist and teacher. She is the founder of the Ancestral Apothecary School of Herbal, Folk, and Indigenous Medicine on Ohlone territory in Oakland, and she currently lives in unceded Tewa Pueblo territory in the Southwest. Her personal website is ancestralapothecary.com, and the website for her school is ancestralapothecaryschool.com.
