Description

Join Herban Cura founder and herbalist Antonia Estela Pérez for a plant identification walk along the Mahicantuck River (Hudson River) in Washington Heights, NY, where will be meeting edible and medicinal plants and trees growing along the river.

This is an opportunity to meet the plants in spring, while some are still blooming and leafing out. Participants will learn a few methods for how to begin their plant relationship journey to continue deeping relationship to the plants growing in New York City beyond our time together. Many of the beings we will be meeting are both food and medicine!

This walk is for anyone looking to start their journey with plants or curious to learn more about them!

Facilitator

Antonia Estela Pérez is a Chilean-American clinical herbalist, gardener, educator, community organizer, co-founder, and artist born and raised in New York City. Growing up in a first generation household existing at the intersections of land stewardship, education, and social justice, her passion for herbs and plant medicine bridges the relationships between rural and urban spaces. With over a decade of experience working and studying in the fields of plant medicine, including environmental and urban studies at Bard College, Clinical Herbalism at Arborvitae School of Traditional Herbal Medicine, and learning with herbalists and elders throughout Mexico, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, and Thailand, Pérez facilitates workshops and produces events as the co-founder of NY based collective, Brujas, and Herban Cura: A space centering Indigenous, Black, Queer and Trans communities in the education of land connection. Perez’s work is rooted in her passion for sharing knowledge that interrupts notions of individualism and separatism from nature to grow towards collaborative and symbiotic communities.