About The Medicine House
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The Medicine House, or TMH, sits along a river ridge of industry, steel, coal, coke, and glass in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a big town with a long blue-collar history. The 1900 home is paved with broken brick and solid stone and stands on hill made of concrete slabs and trash. The earth is crumbling from the Japanese Knotweed invasion that has overtaken our hills, where the deer, groundhogs, and other urban wildlife live.
I’m on a mission. Healing the land, heals humanity too.
About Sarah
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Sarah Samms Velázquez, PWS, CRM
is a writer and community herbalist who destigmatizes the human experience, one story at a time. Sarah’s work has appeared in literary & news magazines across the country, including NBAP Literary, Pathos, & Public Source. She has worn many editorial hats but prefers to get lost in the throes of messy beginnings.
Sarah studied creative writing at Portland State University, western herbalism at American College of Healthcare Sciences, and tropical plant medicine at The Wild Ginger Center.
Sarah is the founder of The Medicine House, a community herbalism movement and aspiring urban herbal farm in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is currently shopping her debut book, Materia Medica: Memoirs of a Wounded Healer.
In addition to her creative writing, Sarah is an avid hiker, a traveler of society’s underbelly, a music nerd, and an art dabbler.
You can learn more about Sarah at:
http://www.ssvelazquez.com
& on Instagram @sarahsvelazquez
