Geechee Hands X Lotus Life
An Herb, Art &Preservation Collaboration to research and celebrate the land stewardship and the creativity of the Black south and Low Country.
Stanley Walker & Ananda Lo have combined forces to preserve the historical cultural ways of Sapelo Islands’ Gullah Geechee heritage
Through herbal foraging, medicine making, net making, basket weaving, land stewardship along with other natural healing modalities, the work of Geechee Hands X Lotus Life is keeping the lost stories of Sapelo island alive.
GEECHEE HANDS - STANLEY WALKER
The son of Cornelia Walker Bailey, Stanley Walker was trained to be a story teller, craftsman, fisherman and several other things. He learned herbalism from his grandmother and aunts. And learned the art of net making, hunting, and gardening from his grandfather and uncles. During his tenure as a technician, wild life manager, and land steward with GA’s Dept of Natural Resources, Stanley reinforced his childhood knowledge over the decades with embodied physical practice and communion with the island.
Stanley currently workers as a craftsman, net maker, forager, medicine maker, land steward story teller and cultural preservationist on Sapelo and throughout the country. He also cans food, makes herbal mediceine, along with jams, jellies, and marmalades.
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LOTUS LIFE & STYLE - ANANDA LO
Ananda Lo brings the Lotus Vibes to the Geechee Life. She has studied on Sapelo Island as an herbalist and basket weaver since 2021. She has partnered with Geechee Hands to make several products including: tinctures, marmalade, jams, and herbal blends .
Together these two organizations plan to continue their preservation and embodied archive work for Gullah Geechee and the Black South.
Future projects include: Native Plant expansion & Red Pea Heritage Crop cultivation