Women’s Revolutionary Home Remedies

The roles of women in seventeenth-century America were incredibly diverse, and they were often responsible for the gardening, cooking and healing within their households and the larger community. Access to professionally trained physicians was limited and women used their knowledge of folk remedies combined with indigenous knowledge to create draughts, balms and teas to ease suffering and address household emergencies. Join cultural historian, Rachel to learn about commonly grown medicinals of the era, the herbs carried in the pockets of revolutionary war soldiers, and preparations that would have been relied upon at the birth of our nation.

Rachel is a cultural historian with her M.A. in American Studies with a focus on Museums & Communities from Trinity College in Hartford, CT. She is currently employed as a law librarian and obtained her MLIS from Southern Connecticut State University. She is the owner of a small business called The Replanted Witch and gives talks on herbalism, wellness, nature based season magic, folk traditions related to her heritage and the Wheel of the Year. Rachel is a also a certified vegan chef, herbalist and yoga teacher.