FRANCESCA CASTAGNETTI

Resident October-November 2023

Francesca Castagnetti is an ethnobotanist affiliated with the Centre for Biocultural Diversity, UK, and an apprentice in community herbalism at the Plant Medicine School, Ireland, working interdisciplinary across ethnobotany, herbalism and the creative fields.

Living between the UK, Italy and Arctic Norway she writes, learns and teaches about plants and land based practices through apprenticing and ethnographic methods and through the theories of ethnobiology, political ecology and indigenous studies. Through action-oriented interdisciplinary research and community herbalism she is currently exploring conviviality, storytelling and ceremony as ways to bring intention, respect, reciprocity and full sensorial engagement into our relationships to land and to other beings.