Polly Poupore
The Knowledge Keepers Website Choreographer
I had the great gift of meeting Dara Saville while attending my very first Good Medicine Confluence in Durango, Colorado in August of 2022. The following January, I made a mini-move to Albuquerque, New Mexico to take the Spring Herbalism Workshop with Dara. We met each week to create magical concoctions and to learn so much about the the mysteries of plants I had only admired in passing. The experience was life changing! I realized that plants have always been my friends and allies. My parents and grandparents instilled that love.
Born in windy Wyoming, raised in West Texas, I grew up in Wisconsin. I am fortunate to be raised by hippie parents who were anti-establishment educators, sailors, artists, travelers, and wild food conaisseurs. I think my first taste of wine was made of dandelions.
I became an educator myself, I taught for a short while in public schools in Wisconsin, then unschooled together with my own children until they left home for the wilds of this world.
Currently, I enjoy making clothing and accessories from pre-loved quilts and blankets, traveling, and tinkering with web design. Plants are my friends everywhere I go. I mostly love to learn about them and to collect information from all of the amazing herbal scientists I have met in the world. The newest ally I am studying with is Chaga Fungus. Marija Helt and Dara Saville both introduced me to her, then I found some in the forest near my fathers cabin in northern Michigan. In Spring or 2024, I noticed some high in the trees in a lot next to a small house I was renting near Asheville, North Carolina. A few weeks later, the neighbor chopped down those trees, and I found chaga lying on the ground, asking to be taken home. I have held her, smelled her rich earthiness and have created a delightful tincture with her. I find she brings rootedness and clarity. Gladly, I have much more to learn about her.
I am also committed to social justice and to making this world a place where it is the norm that we take care of the earth and of each other.
I am so grateful to have the opportunity to learn from the amazing herbalists and artists who are fostering the Knowledge Keepers of our earth. Each and every one of you is making this world a more just and beautiful place, for which I am ever grateful. Thank you, Dara, for bringing us all together in this beautiful book.
Love,
Polly
November 1, 2025
BIOGRAPHY
Polly Poupore
Polly is an artist, nomad, and social justice activist who may one day settle down where her mother’s family has been living for the past 8 generations in the comanche lands of the western hill country now often referred to as West Texas.
You can find her posting occassionally here: https://www.pollypoupore.com/reflections
And on Instagram @pollypoupore
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