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Apr 25, 2024
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WAM 2050 - Herbs: The Medicine Garden
Credit(s): 1
This course focuses on the practical skills of wildcrafting (harvesting from the wild) and cultivating medicinal plants. We will explore sustainable options to harvest at-risk medicinal plants from their wild populations, such as organic cultivation, using substitute plants that offer similar medicinal activity to their at-risk counterparts, and support of ethical growers and harvesters. Cultivating medicinal plants and creating a medicine garden, as ways to grow one’s own health-giving medicinal plants at home, are covered. The skill and technique of proper plant harvesting, drying, and storage as a sound basis for making high quality medicines are discussed. Students will vist Zack Woods Farm in Hyde Park to see a working herb farm in action.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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