African American Agricultural, Botanical and Herbal Traditions

Name: African American Agricultural, Botanical and Herbal Traditions
Start: 2025-09-03T16:00:00-04:00
Location: 208 W Michigan Ave, Ypsilanti, MI, United States, Michigan 48917

Schedule

Wed, 03 Sep, 2025 at 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

208 W Michigan Ave, Ypsilanti, MI, United States, Michigan 48917 | Ypsilanti, MI

African American Agricultural, Botanical, Herbal and Horticultural Traditions
September 3rd sliding scale price $25-50 Register Here
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In this class we will explore a multitude of contributions from African Americans to the farm, garden, herbal, horticultural and scientific traditions of the United States. Items of focus will include crops brought to the USA from Africa, traditional diets combining those plants with the native plants of the Americas and the food as medicine practices that have grown from this synthesis. Other aspects will include an exploration of African American garden aesthetics, innovations in plant science and landscape practices in the USA and beyond.

More About Marc
Marc Williams is an ethnobiologist. He has studied the people, plant, mushroom, microbe interconnection intensively while learning to employ the different kingdoms of biology for food, medicine, and beauty. His training includes a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies concentrating in Sustainable Agriculture with a minor in Business from Warren Wilson College and a Master’s degree in Appalachian Studies concentrating in Sustainable Development with a minor in Geography and Planning from Appalachian State University. He has spent over 15 years working at a multitude of restaurants and various farms. His travels include adventures through 26 countries in North/Central America and Europe and all 50 of the United States. Marc has visited over 150 botanical gardens and research institutions during this process while taking tens of thousands of pictures of representative plants. He is also Executive Director of Plants and Healers International www.plantsandhealers.org and on the Board of Directors of the Appalachian Institute for Mountain Studies. He has taught hundreds of classes and thousands of people about the marvelous world of plants, people and their interface while working with over 60 organizations in the last few years and online at the website www.botanyeveryday.com. Marc's greatest hope is that his efforts may help improve our current challenging global ecological situation.