Tea Cultures of the North: Connecting to the Plant Wisdom of the Arctic

On Wednesday, 19th March 2025 at 3pm Helsinki, Finland time, the Kone Foundation-supported project Gifts from the Sentient Forest will host a cross-disciplinary discussion of the wild and cultivated tea plants of Northern Europe. Gifts from the forest arrive to us in diverse forms including as wild healing teas gathered across the Northern seasons as part of land-based cultural traditions. This seminar will connect the idea of forest sentience to the detoxification, rejuvenation, and healing of people, plants, and places. With diverse backgrounds in phytochemical research, Indigenous Sámi culture, and natural products design, our speakers will share their knowledge of the curative attributes of angelica, coltsfoot, Labrador tea, nettle, northern sweetgrass, roseroot, willow, and other northern species.