Edible and Medicinal Perennials for Your Garden
with Linda Black Elk
Thursday, January 30, 2025 from 7-8pm ET
Virtual
$15 AHS members/$20 non-members
This program is approved for 1 CEU with the Association of Professional Landscape Designers.
Ethnobotanist Linda Black Elk will share insights on how to walk landscapes with a greater appreciation for native food and medicine and how to cultivate rich long-term relationships with plants.
Linda Black Elk is an ethnobotanist and food sovereignty activist who specializes in teaching about culturally important plants and their uses as food, medicine, and materials. Black Elk works to build capacity in her community and beyond, to promote and protect traditional plant knowledge and environmental quality as an extension of the fight against extractive industry. She has written for numerous publications, and she is the author of Watoto Unyutapi, a field guide to edible wild plants of the Dakota people. Black Elk currently serves as the Education Director for North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems and she spends her free time with her husband and three sons, who are all citizens of the Oceti Sakowin.
