Vinegars, Rock Sugar & the Legacy of Ms Emma Dupree

Celebrate the inspiring story of Emma Dupree, a renowned Black folk herbalist, and explore the roles of vinegar and rock sugar in traditional herbalism. This hands-on workshop includes sampling herbal vinegars and creating your own infused vinegar to take home. Presented by Yam Vallis. Yam is an AfroIndigeonous fifth-generation community herbalist and clinical herbalist. Raised by a small rocky creek on Piscataway lands (Washington DC), with ancestral ties to the Lenapehoking (West Philly) where they currently live, Yam comes from a lineage of healers and storytellers. In their art and work with herbs, they are committed to building and imagining a future that centers on food & medicine sovereignty, abolition, and deep ancestral healing. Yam believes that reclaiming our ancestral relationship with plants can empower and uplift individuals by radically changing their relationship with their bodies and the land around them.

Host or Publisher Falls of Schuylkill Library, Free Library of Phila