Event Details
Date/Time
Thursday, October 7, 2021, 1:30
–3 p.m.
Location:
Makerplace - Kitchen
Event Description

Explore the various plants of Native origin that have healing benefits in tea.  We will focus on the plants of Midwestern Native groups such as the Anishinaabe (Ojibwa), Nishnabek (Potawatomi), Ho-Chunk (Winnebago), and others who have a tradition of planting and gathering in the upper Midwest.  In this hands-on program we will handle and smell plants, learn blending techniques, and try out some tea blends, while discussing the spiritual and medicinal uses for certain local plants that were shared with us by these Native American groups, as well as the benefits of other herbs used in European traditions as well.

Marcy Lautanen-Raleigh began growing herbs in 1992 after taking a winter class at an herb shop in Geneva, Illinois. She started Backyard Patch Herbs to market her herbs in 1995. Her background includes a B.A. in Anthropology with a focus on Native Cultures of the United States. She worked for 20 years as a museum curator and director in Indianapolis at the Museum of Indian Heritage which is now part of the Eiteljorg Museum before moving to the Chicagoland area and becoming the founding Director of the Schingoethe Center for Native American Cultures at Aurora University. In 2005 she retired from the museum industry to work full time with herbs.

There is another session on Thursday, October 7 from 6:30-8 p.m.
Both sessions are the same - Please only register for one.

This program is presented as part of One Book, One Village.

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Presenter
Marcy Lautanen-Raleigh
Makerplace Classes
Culinary

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