Growing Health in Your Backyard
Join earthday365’s Recycling On the Go and Green Dining Alliance program staff for our virtual educational programs about growing healthy food in your backyard. When I was working in Maine, taking a walk in the “backyard” meant thousands of acres of wilderness. Our collective “backyard” in St. Louis has amazing innovators working to improve soil health and provide healthy food for our community. Meet five of them over these two days!
Local Food Movement Panel with
Tyrean “Heru” Lewis: Heru Urban Farming
Jill Duncan: Loving Roots Urban Farm
Matt Lebon: Custom Foodscaping
Introduction to Community Herbalism with
Crystal Stevens and Alex Queathem: Tend and Flourish School of Botanicals
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Local Food Movement Panel
Matt Lebon of Custom Foodscaping will share their sustainability vision for the city and describe the work they do transforming ordinary spaces into beautiful food-producing landscapes.
Her first solo farming adventure after graduating from the Earthdance Farm apprenticeship program, Jill Duncan of Loving Roots Urban Farm will discuss her lessons learned from her first season and what to keep or throw away for the 2021 season.
Tyrean “Heru” Lewis is the founder and CEO of Heru Urban Farming. Their mission is to bring healthy sustainable produce to those who need it the most. Heru Urban Farming provides sustainable healthy food options for food apartheid communities. In addition to produce, they provide economic growth, cooking classes, hands on training for growers, health education, herbal remedies and a rebirth of togetherness within the community.
Introduction to Community Herbalism
Crystal Stevens and Alex Queathem, the co-founders of Tend and Flourish School of Botanicals (an herb school in the Midwest), will be teaching an Introduction to Herbalism. They will discuss the ethics of herbalism, the importance of creating cultivated ecologies in our own backyards, herbal actions, native medicinals, and backyard herbalism. They will cover the importance of community herbalism and making herbal medicine accessible to all.
Or watch directly in Facebook below.
[If the video does not start, try reloading this page right after 5:30 pm.]
Crystal Stevens and Alex Queathem, the co-founders of Tend and Flourish School of Botanicals (an herb school in the Midwest), will be teaching an Introduction to Herbalism. They will discuss the ethics of herbalism, the importance of creating cultivated ecologies in our own backyards, herbal actions, native medicinals, and backyard herbalism. They will cover the importance of community herbalism and making herbal medicine accessible to all.
