Events

Join herbalist Dina Falconi and explore the plants in and around the Beatrix Farrand Garden at Bellefield. Learn to identify these plants using basic sensory skills and discover how they are used for food & medicine. This walk will include practical information on harvest and preparation. Dina Falconi is a clinical herbalist with a strong focus on food activism and nutritional healing. An avid gardener, wildcrafter, and permaculturist, Dina has been teaching classes about the use of herbs for food, medicine, and personal care, including wild food foraging and cooking, for more than thirty years. She offers online courses at www.InTheWild.Kitchen. She produces Falcon Formulations natural body care products and Earthly Extracts medicinal tinctures. She is the author of Foraging & Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook and Earthly Bodies & Heavenly Hair: Natural and Healthy Personal Care for Everybody. Thanks to event sponsorship from the Maurice D. Hinchey Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area these events are free and open to the public.