Riverside’s Medicinal Plant & Herb Walk
On Saturday October 25th join us from 2:00pm – 4:00pm for Riverside Ignite 2015 WalkFEST’s Medicinal Plant & Herb Walk.
Starting at Quince Flowers (660 Queen Street East) our neighbourhood Herbalist and City Farmer, Danette Steele, will teach us about the ultimate in accessible, local and sustainable food and medicine. Participants will learn about the local wild plants and how to use them safely as we gather up the weeds around Riverside!
Many wild plants (aka weeds) are good food and medicine. This walk will take us along Riverside sidewalks, lane-ways, and parks where we will identify local plants and enjoy a herbal treat from Pulp Kitchen. The Walk is fully accessible and will take place rain or shine – so be sure to dress for the weather. It will be an amazing opportunity to learn that many of the weeds that we pull out of our vegetable and flower gardens, and that we walk by in our local parks and along our sidewalks are actually good for us! About 5-10 wild plants will be identified, harvested and explained as you learn different ways to heal all sorts of health problems.
Photo: Susan Poizner
Danette Steele, M.A., RH (OHA), who is leading this walk, has more than 25 years of experience as a community and clinical herbal practitioner. With a busy private herbal practice in both Toronto and Halifax, Danette consults and teaches widely on self-sufficiency and sustainable practices for health and wellness using medicinal plants. Danette loves to share healing plant wisdom. She creates a participant-focused approach in her teaching spaces and is committed to a joyous and rigorous herbal learning experience – through workshops, consultations, weed walks, herbal intensives, plant meditations and herbal courses.
Wild herbal teas will be available for tasting – so please bring your travel mug
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Riverside is proud to be a TO2015 IGNITE community partner.
Riverside WalkFEST is supported by Ontario Ignite
