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!
Please wear warm layers and a blanket to sit on.
We will explore:
Basic botany
Plant identification
Building relationship to plants
Meeting plants for food and medicine
Exchange
Sliding Scale: $20-$50
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In Person Gathering
Sunday, April 21st
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Hudson River Greenway 694 W 158th StNew York, NY, 10032 United States (map)
Facilitator
Antonia is a Chilean-American clinical herbalist, gardener, educator, community organizer, and founder. Born and raised in New York City, in a first-generation household which nurtured the values and principles of nature appreciation, land stewardship, interdisciplinary education, and social justice—Antonia’s lifelong passion for herbs and plant medicine helps to bridge the relationships between rural and urban spaces. Antonia combines a decade of experience studying and working with plant medicine, with her studies in environmental and urban studies at Bard College, Clinical Herbalism at Arborvitae School of Traditional Herbal Medicine, and learning with herbalists and elders throughout Central and South America. Antonia facilitates workshops and produces events as the co-founder of NY-based collective—Brujas—and as founder of Herban Cura: An herbal medicine and education project which centers the knowledge and stories of Indigenous, Black, Queer and Trans communities. Antonia’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.