#indigenousplants — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #indigenousplants, aggregated by home.social.
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Why invasive plants can harm your garden and what you can grow instead https://www.allforgardening.com/1715726/why-invasive-plants-can-harm-your-garden-and-what-you-can-grow-instead/ #agapanthus #EnglishIvy #foxglove #garden #GardenPlantEscapees #gardening #GardeningTips #gazania #IndigenousPlants #InvasiveGardenPlants #MorningGlory #NativePlants #pollinators #SustainableGardens #wildlife
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Garden city | City of Melbourne https://www.allforgardening.com/1576542/garden-city-city-of-melbourne/ #city #CommunityGreening #FloralEmblem #garden #GardenCity #gardens #greening #IndigenousPlants #MargaretParisi #NativeFlower #NativePlants #OpenSpace #parks #PaulBangay #plants #UrbanForest #UrbanForestFund
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#RoyalRoadsUniversity recently unveiled its new #Indigenous #MedicineGarden – a project designed to give #students and #community members a chance to learn about #plants that the #Lekwungen speaking peoples have used since time immemorial.
Solara Goldwynn, Royal Roads' farm and #FoodSystems lead, and Kenneth Elliot, #EthnoBotanist and #CowichanElder, chose the garden’s colourful mix of plants, most of which grow naturally in the traditional territories of the Lekwungen-speaking peoples (southern #VancouverIsland and the #SanJuanIslands and #GulfIslands
#NativeMedicine #IndigenousGarden #NativeGarden #YYJ #CoastSalish #VanIsle #Cascadia #NativePlants #PacificNorthwest #PNW #LandBack #decolonialism #Educational #biodiversity #IndigenousKnowledge #IndigenousPlants #Colwood #Langford #Metchosin
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New #book to enjoy #reading & #learning from!
Held by the Land: A Guide to Indigenous Plants for Wellness
By Leigh Joseph.Author Leigh Joseph, an #ethnobotanist, member of the #SquamishNation & founder of #SkwalwenBotanicals, provides a beautifully illustrated essential introduction to #Indigenous #PlantKnowledge.
#Plants can be a great source of #healing as well as #nourishment & the practice of growing & harvesting from trees, flowering herbs & other plants is a powerful way to become more connected to the land.
The #IndigenousPeoples of #NorthAmerica have long traditions of using #NativePlants as #medicine as well as for #food. Held by the Land honors & shares some of these traditions, offering a guide to:
Harvesting herbs & other plants & using them topically.
North American plants that can treat common ailments, add nutrition to your diet, become part of your beauty regime & more.
Stories & traditions about native plants from the author's #Squamish culture.
Using plant knowledge to strengthen your #ConnectionToTheLand you live on.
Early chapters will introduce you to responsible ways to identify & harvest plants in your area & teach you how to grow a deeper connection with the land you live on through plants.In the plant profiles section, common plants are introduced with illustrations & information on their characteristics, range, how to grow & harvest them & how to use them topically & as food.
Special features offer recipes for food & beauty products along with stories & traditions around the plants.
This beautiful, full-color guide to #IndigenousPlants will give you new insights into the power of everyday plants.
https://skwalwen.com/products/held-by-the-land-a-guide-to-indigenous-plants-for-wellness
#Bookstodon #IndigenousAuthors #IndigenousBooks #decolonization #IndigenousPlantEducation #Educational #BritishColumbia #Cascadia #CoastSalish #PacificNorthwest #PNW #NativePlantsEducation #NativeWriters #NativePlantsGuide #FirstNations #NonFiction #NatureBooks #PlantsBook #NatureGuide