Medicinal and Edible Plants Uses
Talk will be held in the white tent
Around the globe and throughout time, plants have been a source of food and
medicine. Despite our reliance on grocery and drug stores, local plants are
still sources of nutrition and health. Learn about how to use plants of the
Umpqua for food and medicine.
WREN DAVIDSON-Owner, Yerba Buena Botanicals of Eugene, OR.
Wren studied under world renowned herbalist Michael Moore.
She has been studying and planting herbs since 1971. She helped to
organize the Women's Herbal Conference in 1986.
She says, "My calling is seeking to study the Northwest flora and
fauna and introducing them to my human relatives. I love taking people on herb
walks in their own neighborhoods so they can meet the nearby plants (weeds to
some), seeing them in a new way, as beauty, food and medicine. This hopefully
engenders in them, not only curiosity to learn more, but a sense of 'belonging
to' rather than 'being separate from' their natural world."