Harvesting Your Native Plants for Many Uses at Milpitas Library

Join us on Monday, December 1, at 7pm for a talk explaining the relationship of California native plants to indigenous peoples and how these plants can be used today. John Kipping will tell us how native plants can be used for food, medicine, and material sources, especially for basketry. Mr. Kipping will demonstrate Pomo-style coiled weaving. His talk will include a display of specimens, books and artifacts. He will also show us how to make manzanita cider.

John Kipping is a naturalist with a keen interest in sharing his passion and knowledge of the biosphere with the community. For more than 20 years he worked in Natural History education at the Randall Junior Museum, San Francisco Botanical Gardens, and the Audubon Canyon Ranch. He is currently is ship naturalist for Dolphin Charters during the summer in southeast Alaska and British Columbia.

This program is free and open to the public. Milpitas Library is located at 160 N Main St., Milpitas CA 95035. For more information, please call 408-262-1171.