about the maker.
Corinne Denomme (she/her) was born and raised in the greater Detroit area of the Great Lakes region. The year after Corinne's birth, her mother pursued a midwifery career which wove herbalism into her life forever thereafter. This has happenstance has unequivocally inspired her life's trajectory toward working with people and plants. Her adolescent years were spent playing in the woodlands behind their little blue rental home, hugged by a huge apple orchard & corn/pumpkin field just on the edge of town. This land was where a deep reverence for the more-than-human world began as it parented her through uncertain times, setting foundational attributes for ecological activism, social liberation, and weaving reciprocal relationships for community and green spaces.
She found the handcraft of herbalism to be her calling. Corinne’s grassroots home business has been providing quality small-batch herbal products since 2015. She also teaches botanical dye workshops focusing on bioregional plants, local herbalism, private plant walks, and has facilitated nature connection events.
Relatable credentials: Nature & village connection programs with Jon Young’s 8 Shields Institute, Vitalist Herbal Practitioner Program from the School of Evolutionary Herbalism, Lindera energetic Western folk herbalism course with Michigan herbalist Jim McDonald (once as a student, again as a teacher’s helper), traditional natural dye practices with Mel Streetman of Mamie's Schoolhouse, and various other classes with beloved community teachers who have truly inspired her educational path forward.
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about the craft.
Co-creating with the earth offers an infinite range of possibilities, and these possibilities come with great responsibility and respect. It is a relationship like any other and thus requires boundaries for good nurturing and preservation. With this dance I am always learning new steps: How to give and receive in fairness, how to be in partnership with the ecosystem, how to ethically exist together that doesn’t promote exploitation for Earth’s inhabitants, how to nurture and be nurtured...
Earth exemplifies in gifting, reclaiming, the ephemeral, cycling, and mutual aid, and this is how I model my life’s philosophy and my artistic expressions.
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