Botany and the Body series: Forest and Field First Aid & Medicine Chest
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Botany and the Body is a seasonal workshop series exploring how plants and trees support physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being through hands-on learning and herbal preparations.
In this second session, we’ll explore local plants and trees used for first aid, including poultices, salves, infused oils, and rapid hydrators. Participants will walk the BEEC loop to identify these plants in their natural environment, then return to the BEEC farmhouse to make a handcrafted healing salve, choosing between Saint John’s Wort or plantain.
Featured plants may include Saint John’s Wort, yarrow, plantain, mullein, spruce, balsam or pine pitch, licorice, nettles, peppermint, sumac, jewelweed, oregano, rosemary, elderberries, chaga, bee balm, comfrey, aloe vera, thyme, elecampane, dock, slippery elm, clove, white willow, ginger, cayenne, burdock, and dandelion.
Dr. Jessica Dolan, PhD is an environmental anthropologist, Indigenous studies scholar, and ethnobotanist who has been working for the last 19 years in service of Indigenous communities on biocultural stewardship and restoration projects. She has participated as a scholar on environmental and cultural research teams with Akwesasne Mohawk Nation, Six Nations of the Grand River, Onondaga Nation, and the Cree Nation of Wemindji, as well as serving as the Assistant Director of Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at SUNY-ESF, environmental science officer/ ethnobotanist for Akwesasne Mohawk Nation environment programs, and grant writer for the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance. She currently works with the National Park Service Office of Native American Affairs, dedicated to building constitutional treaty and trust responsibilities with Native Nations through environmental co-stewardship planning, research, workshops, and educational programs, and teaches at Greenfield Community College. She has published on Indigenous ethnobotany and food sovereignty, as well as Indigenous environmental history and contemporary approaches to relationships with land and plant relatives, and is currently working on writing an ethnobotanical field guide!
Each participant will also receive a complimentary botanical face serum or body scrub from Ursa Major!
Ticket cost: $55 members/$65 non-members
In this second session, we’ll explore local plants and trees used for first aid, including poultices, salves, infused oils, and rapid hydrators. Participants will walk the BEEC loop to identify these plants in their natural environment, then return to the BEEC farmhouse to make a handcrafted healing salve, choosing between Saint John’s Wort or plantain.
Featured plants may include Saint John’s Wort, yarrow, plantain, mullein, spruce, balsam or pine pitch, licorice, nettles, peppermint, sumac, jewelweed, oregano, rosemary, elderberries, chaga, bee balm, comfrey, aloe vera, thyme, elecampane, dock, slippery elm, clove, white willow, ginger, cayenne, burdock, and dandelion.
Dr. Jessica Dolan, PhD is an environmental anthropologist, Indigenous studies scholar, and ethnobotanist who has been working for the last 19 years in service of Indigenous communities on biocultural stewardship and restoration projects. She has participated as a scholar on environmental and cultural research teams with Akwesasne Mohawk Nation, Six Nations of the Grand River, Onondaga Nation, and the Cree Nation of Wemindji, as well as serving as the Assistant Director of Center for Native Peoples and the Environment at SUNY-ESF, environmental science officer/ ethnobotanist for Akwesasne Mohawk Nation environment programs, and grant writer for the Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance. She currently works with the National Park Service Office of Native American Affairs, dedicated to building constitutional treaty and trust responsibilities with Native Nations through environmental co-stewardship planning, research, workshops, and educational programs, and teaches at Greenfield Community College. She has published on Indigenous ethnobotany and food sovereignty, as well as Indigenous environmental history and contemporary approaches to relationships with land and plant relatives, and is currently working on writing an ethnobotanical field guide!
Each participant will also receive a complimentary botanical face serum or body scrub from Ursa Major!
Ticket cost: $55 members/$65 non-members
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1221 Bonnyvale Rd, Brattleboro, VT, United States, Vermont 05301
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