A event on Saturday 22nd March. The event starts at 19:00.
Join us for a celebration of communities, herbs, gardens, immigration and belonging at the launch of *Herbs Yourself: A year at the community garden*. This first fanzine by Mugwort Press, written by Bernie Munoz Chereau and edited by Maya Blackwell, tells the story of the first year of Herbs Yourself, a community herb garden nestled in a corner of Fishponds, Bristol.
This book will take you on a journey through a seasonal year at the garden, learning about how herbs and community can grow in that time. Here, writer, mother and community organiser, Bernie Munoz Chereau, takes you by the hand and walks you through the propagation of seeds, the nurturing of relationships, the tangled web of community work, and even to the depths of her childhood in Chile, where she learned first hand a reverence for nature and a radical approach to community.
This book is for anyone curious about starting a project by using intuition, vision, hard work and the natural world as their compass. At times a practical guide for navigating a grassroots project in the context of a despotic world, at others a poetic examination of what it is to set down roots in a new place and to learn from plants, who are unencumbered by self-imposed borders. *Herbs Yourself: A Year At The Community Garden* offers a unique take on community herb gardens and what it is to find belonging within the projects we create.
The book will be presented by Maya Blackwell, in conversation with Bernie Munoz Chereau and Silvia Jimenez Cruz
All money raised from the sales of this book will go towards the growth of Herbs Yourself.
Bernie Munoz Chereau is a writer, academic, psychologist, gardener, mother and community organiser. Before @Herbs_Yourself , Bernie created Dove Gardens, a guerrilla garden in the social housing of Dove Street, Kingsdown. Bernie has published more than 30 books in Chile and Latin America, along dozens of academic papers on educational inequality. Her book *Noelia’s diary*, a fictional account of a girl growing up under the Chilean dictatorship, received an IBBY honourable mention, Colibri medal 2017. She works as an Associate Professor at UCL, Institute of Education.
Maya Blackwell is a Bristol-based poet and author of *Permaculture: Planting the seeds of radical regeneration* (Saraband, 2024). She grew up in a woodland-based New Age traveller community and explores the themes she absorbed there—of community and nature—throughout her work. Her writing interests include permaculture, well-being, nature connection, grief, creativity, womanhood, and the ocean. She is a prolific spoken-word performer, has been published in Helicon Magazine for the University of Bristol, and is a graduate of the University of Plymouth, with a FD Honors in Creative Art Therapies Studies.
Silvia Jimenez Cruz is a mother, musician, illustrator and community worker. She co-leads de community herb garden Herbs Yourself.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
This book will take you on a journey through a seasonal year at the garden, learning about how herbs and community can grow in that time. Here, writer, mother and community organiser, Bernie Munoz Chereau, takes you by the hand and walks you through the propagation of seeds, the nurturing of relationships, the tangled web of community work, and even to the depths of her childhood in Chile, where she learned first hand a reverence for nature and a radical approach to community.
This book is for anyone curious about starting a project by using intuition, vision, hard work and the natural world as their compass. At times a practical guide for navigating a grassroots project in the context of a despotic world, at others a poetic examination of what it is to set down roots in a new place and to learn from plants, who are unencumbered by self-imposed borders. *Herbs Yourself: A Year At The Community Garden* offers a unique take on community herb gardens and what it is to find belonging within the projects we create.
The book will be presented by Maya Blackwell, in conversation with Bernie Munoz Chereau and Silvia Jimenez Cruz
All money raised from the sales of this book will go towards the growth of Herbs Yourself.
Bernie Munoz Chereau is a writer, academic, psychologist, gardener, mother and community organiser. Before @Herbs_Yourself , Bernie created Dove Gardens, a guerrilla garden in the social housing of Dove Street, Kingsdown. Bernie has published more than 30 books in Chile and Latin America, along dozens of academic papers on educational inequality. Her book *Noelia’s diary*, a fictional account of a girl growing up under the Chilean dictatorship, received an IBBY honourable mention, Colibri medal 2017. She works as an Associate Professor at UCL, Institute of Education.
Maya Blackwell is a Bristol-based poet and author of *Permaculture: Planting the seeds of radical regeneration* (Saraband, 2024). She grew up in a woodland-based New Age traveller community and explores the themes she absorbed there—of community and nature—throughout her work. Her writing interests include permaculture, well-being, nature connection, grief, creativity, womanhood, and the ocean. She is a prolific spoken-word performer, has been published in Helicon Magazine for the University of Bristol, and is a graduate of the University of Plymouth, with a FD Honors in Creative Art Therapies Studies.
Silvia Jimenez Cruz is a mother, musician, illustrator and community worker. She co-leads de community herb garden Herbs Yourself.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions