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@ Greenwich Forest Garden, Hampshire College, 893 West St.,...
Attendees: @Ned Phillips-Jones
Species of our Past and Future
Learn about perennial plants that have nourished indigenous people for time immemorial and how easy it is to grow them.
Begin to develop a personal connection with species historically used by Celtic peoples & taste 3 foods from the garden.
Listen to herbalist and author Ellen Evert Hopman detail Celtic spiritual and medicinal lore associated with species in the garden and get signed copies of her books .
RSVP to delicioushabitat@gmail.com for driving directions
Ellen Evert Hopman is a local herbalist and the author of many Celtic novels and herbals. She teaches a six month herbal intensive in the Pioneer Valley. Her latest herbal is Scottish Herbs And Fairy Lore (April 2011) www.elleneverthopman.com
Ned Phillips-Jones is a local designer of food forests and created Greenwich Forest Garden as a student at Hampshire. He works to support ethnoecology awareness and has studied Welsh language in Wales. www.delicioushabitat.com
This event represents a growing effort to provide historical context on the roles of perennial species in traditional and indigenous cultures. It is also an opportunity for us to start exploring links with the species of our own unique cultural backgrounds and to begin creating a platform and community for sharing these personal stories of ancestral and nature connection. This is a starting place.
If anyone is interested in hardy, traditional, wild food plants from Wales that you can grow yourself- let me know (even if you can't make the workshop).
I was just recently in Cymru looking at wild food sources for background for this upcoming workshop.