A Journal of Radical, Rooted, Relational Herbalism
About
‘Wort’ is an old word for a plant used as food or medicine.
It describes the plants that feed and heal us. Those that maintain and make us whole.
People have had this special relationship with some plants for as long as people have been around (not nearly as long as plants).
‘Wort’ names a relationship fundamental to human existence.
This journal is for lovers of weeds and wildflowers. It is for those who honour plants as kin and those working to make change at the root.
Each issue collects contributions from persons working in ways that resonate with the long traditions of world-entangled, community-embedded folk herbalism.
Wort platforms plantwork that is deeply holistic and intersectional, always striving to understand the bigger picture. Plantwork that roots itself in the heritage of common knowledge and in relationship with the land.
Beautifully illustrated with pen and ink drawing throughout.
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Thinning the Veil: Embodied Practices of Ancestral Connection
The hedgerow harvest has been abundant this Autumn. Samhain traditionally marks the close of the harvesting time. It is also a threshold into a time of rest and recuperation. Days of lengthening darkness. For the beings of the hedgerow, a rest from the exertion of...
Echo Zines review: Wort – a journal that mixes herbalism and intersectional activism
This review was written by Nina Zina of Echo Zines for international zine month 2025 and was first published on their blog. Check out their website - going since 2001! - for a trove of resources, reviews and reflections on the themes of politics, witchcraft and (of...
Plants, Mushrooms and Resistance gathering 2025 (Romania)
The 2025 Plants, Mushrooms and Resistance gathering was an autonomous educational event that took place in Cluj-Napoc, Romania. It was co-organised by a small collective of participants in the previous (the first) year’s gathering in Austria, with comrades in Romania...