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Author, Nature Advocate & Rewilding Educator Vanessa Chakour facilitates intimacy with inner and outer wilds through writing, ethical foraging, herbalism, boxing, and land stewardship. She is the author of the forthcoming EARTHLY BODIES: EMBRACING ANIMAL NATURE (Penguin 2024) and AWAKENING ARTEMIS (Penguin 2021), a memoir told through the lens of 24 medicinal plants.
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