Parthenia Myers is a grower, chef, caterer, forager, plant medicine maker and retreat facilitator from St. Mary's, Ga. She comes from a family of farmers, educators, builders, fisherman and earth keepers deeply rooted in their Gullah Geechee culture. She is the founder of Mystic Roots, a portal for Ancestral ways of BEING that promotes a holistic way of life and a sacred connection to the earth via land cultivation, plant based cuisine, a return to folk medicine, and a deep communion with the earth through her Sacred Earth Retreats. She is the executive director of the Mystic Roots Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to empower Black communities through the recovery and stewardship of ancestral lands, utilizing black agrarianism as our guide. She spent 7 years in Atlanta, GA (2013-2020) managing several different urban farm sites after obtaining her Urban Agriculture Certification through the HABESHA Works program in 2013. She now resides on Sapelo Island where she continues to cultivate the land and is working on the Mystic Roots Medicinal Herb Farm and Apothecary. You can find her on the full moon, seeking out the wild spaces she calls home, in search of sacred plant medicine.