Update: This event has been rescheduled to October 10th. We are standing together with our community, engaging in disaster relief work right now.
Working Together with Native Plants
Join the Vesper Meadow Education Program and special guest Tyler Wauters from the Hawthorn Institute (bio below) for a day of learning about, exploring connections to, and working to restore populations of native food plants!
Together, we will:
Go for a Plant Walk! We will hike to and from a patch of Yew and Elderberry trees at Vesper Meadow (~2 miles total), with stops along the way to discuss various plants and their edible/medicinal qualities. We’ll discuss traditional and historical uses, current uses as foods and/or medicines, preservation techniques, and uses in restoration at Vesper Meadow and beyond.
Present/discuss Ethical Considerations for wildcrafting
Engage in a Plant-Meditation/Quiet Reflection: as we face the upcoming transition to fall/winter, and the convergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and movements for racial justice, we will take the opportunity to reflect on our connection to/work with native plants in this unprecedented moment (with an option to share after)
Collect seed and harvest fruits of Elderberry for propagation and Community-Powered Restoration efforts at Vesper Meadow
Saturday, September 19th from 1-5 pm
Cost: $10-20
Space for this event is limited. Please pre-register by filling out the form below.
About special guest Tyler Wauters: Tyler has been a program director and core-faculty member of the Hawthorn Institute since 2013, and taught for the Herb Pharm Herbaculture program since 2008. He teaches a wide variety of topics ranging from Wildcrafting, Wild Foods, Ceremony, Bio-regional human and natural history, Ayurveda, and Botany. Tyler has devoted his life to the practice of community herbalism and he brings his passion and knowledge of nature into everything he shares. Tyler’s intention is to ignite deeper connections to place, people, and plants.
Read more about the Hawthorn Institute here. More information on the partnership between Vesper Meadow and the Hawthorn Institute can be found here.