Revered Roots, available now!
In this purposeful and powerful guide to the lessons, nourishment, healing, and history of our “plant teachers” shares guidance on finding, harvesting, and using these long-revered plants as food and medicine. Separated into two sections, LoriAnn first shares her own journey to understanding and respecting our plant elders. She offers teachings and lessons about reclaiming our relationship to the plants around us and our responsibility to the earth that sustains us.
The second part of the book is filled with insightful illustrated plant profiles detailing the identification, uses, and Indigenous folklore of some of the continent’s most treasured ancestral plants. Included are edible and medicinal bark, berries, and buds from trees and shrubs, as well as foliage, flowers, and fronds from herbs, “weeds”, and wildflowers; some native to the continent, others introduced generations ago.
In this book, learn how to identify, forage, prepare, and use over 90 plants, including:
- Evergreen tips from spruces, pines, and firs
- Hawthorn berries, leaves, and flowers
- Redroot pigweed stems and foliage
- Oswego tea leaves and blooms
- Motherwort flowers, stems, and leaves
- Slippery elm bark
- Black cohosh roots and rhizomes
- Marshmallow root
- Cottonwood buds and bark
Medicine Mind Maps
$10.00
A digital download of a collection of LoriAnn’s illustrated mind maps, which include descriptions and illustrations of over 20 wild, native, and medicinal plants. With illustrations, medicinal properties, and flavour descriptions accompanying each plant, this pamphlet of is the perfect beginning or addition to your learning of plant knowledge and our relationship with our more-than-human-kin around us.
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