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Join us to learn about plant medicines. Get to know some of the herbs that like to grow around us and provide us with their healing properties.
We will learn how to identify, grow and use herbs as medicine in teas. We will learn how to make herbal infused salves to nourish, support and help the healing of our skin. Everyone will be making a salve to bring home and some herbs for teas as well!
Our presenters:
Michael Del Rio, student and teacher of life. Michael is a farmer & teacher at The Farm School, where they teach students all about our connections to the land, building community and taking care of each other and the land. They love learning and working with plants and fungi.
Taína Vargas-Sosa is a mother, artist, educator, wellness entrepreneur, urban gardener & budding forager. She is the founder of Sankofa Anacaona Botanicals, a woman-of-color-owned small business that specializes in plant-based holistic wellness. Taína aims to educate and empower our communities to reclaim and expand cultural traditions of plant medicine. Her work is grounded in her Afro-Taino roots from Ayiti-Kiskeya (Dominican Republic). Currently, Taína splits her time between Boston and Western Mass (Massachusetts, Pawtucket and Nipmuc Indigenous lands). Find Taína on IG @sankofa.anacaona.botanicals
Thank you to our SummerQuest sponsors: Cornerstone Bank, UniBank, Country Bank, Office of District Attorney Joseph D. Early, Jr., Price Chopper Golub Foundation, Bob’s Discount Furniture, Walmart, Friends of WPL, and Worcester Public Library Foundation.
