Seán Pádraig O’Donoghue is an herbalist, teacher, and Earth poet living in western Maine.  He is an initiated priest of the Feri and Crossroads traditions, and the author of Courting the Wild Queen and The Forest Reminds Us Who We Are.  As an animist, he experiences plants and fungi as our ancestors and our kin, living beings with their own intelligence, who exist with us, not for us.   His work with plants and fungi weaves together insights gleaned  traditional western herbalism, contemporary science, Irish and Nordic animism, and his own lived experience.