Join us for an evening with Alicia Funk to enjoy appetizers made from local native plants and sample wild fermented beverages. Learn how to process oak nuts (acorns) and other fall edibles, discover easy-to-grow native plants to add to the backyard this fall, and view original functional artwork from native plant materials. Growing native plants for food and medicine can help our own health as well as that of the landscape around us. It offers a way to deepen our relationship with the land we inhabit, support local biodiversity, and fundamentally shift the way we eat, garden and heal so that we can truly live sustainably.
Funk first learned plant-based medicine in 1990 from an indigenous grandmother in Ecuador's rainforest. She served as the director of The Crossings Wellness Center and is the editor of six books. Copies of her newest book, Living Wild: Gardening, Cooking and Healing with Native Plants of the Sierra Nevada, will be available for sale and signing.
