My first lesson from Southern Italy was about fertility and belonging. Being in Italy opened up a portal for the conversation I've been needing to have with the plants we know as “European” plants. Somewhat like the stories of my family line, details have been dropped, forgotten or changed. A plant that can tell this story is Queen Anne's Lace, or Wild Carrot, Daucus carota . Ancient traditional knowledge and herbalists know that consuming the seed of this plant at the corre