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Hey, #Witches, it's time to stop using #endangered #WhiteSage.
Between white people appropriating like crazy, and CA wildfires killing the plants and their entire ecosystems, it's time this plant ceased being everyone's go-to for magickal work.
"... Due to the illegal over-harvesting of Saliva apiana in recent years in combination with increased, devastating wild fires on White Sage lands in Southern California, concern for the commercialized harvesting and distribution of White Sage grows as the wild populations of this species shrink in size.
Many Native American communities are requesting at this time that non-native peoples stop harvesting this plant from the wild altogether. As Native Americans have been the caretakers of this plant and the lands it grows on for countless generations, it is important that everyone respect and honor their request."
https://aromaticmedicineschool.com/a-distress-call-from-the-sacred-white-sage-plant/
In the wake of the post about stopping use of #WhiteSage I'd like to offer a link to a veritable one-page Master class "On Smoke" which discusses #WildCrafted #HomeGrown North American plants and incense, from a queer Pagan farm in Vermont.
Another follow-up on harvesting and using #TreeResins,
@raye expanding on this: if you live in areas where wild white sage is endemic get out there and replant some
@raye I'm not witchy in any way, but I have grown my own culinary sage from seed. It's easy enough. Could people do that instead?
@interneteh If you can grow a plant yourself in a way that is sustainable, go for it.
Everything we consume that is a speciality from one spot on the planet will eventually become endangered due to capitalism selling out the supply, the history of the world has demonstrated that repeatedly. We have to diversify and localize whatever it is that we use.