Nature's Wild Food Identification Excursion at the Elizabeth Fries Ellet Interpretive Trail


Elizabeth Fries Ellet Interpretive Trail Excursions

Summer 2009

Two Days- Saturday August 29th and Saturday Sept 19th, 2009

10:00AM to 11:30AM

With Cynthia Thomas

Cynthia Thomas is a practicing herbalist, educator, massage therapist and Doula serving the Twin Cities area. She has been working with medicinal herbs for 20 years. She has a BS in Herbal Sciences from Bastyr University. Cynthia served seven years on the Board of Directors for the North Country Herbalist Guild, a local non-profit providing education and resources for the ethical and sustainable use of medicinal plants.“I have been blessed with many teachers from diverse backgrounds, all of who have helped to instill a deep respect for nature and faith in our collective power to heal.”Cynthia Thomas

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FREE EVENT

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Salad Leaves

Lettuce Family

Wild Salad Recipes

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/victorygarden/eat/recipes/wildsalad.html

Soap Wort

Pink Family

sap·o·nin
Spelled Pronunciation[sap-uh-nin] Pronunciation
Noun Biochemistry- any of a group of amorphous glycosides of terpenes and steroids, occurring in many plants, characterized by an ability to form emulsions and to foam in aqueous solutions, and used as detergents.

Native Medicine Plant Discovery
Saturday, June 28th 10 to 12
Free Event








Cynthia Thomas is a practicing herbalist, educator, massage therapist and doula serving the Twin Cities area. She has been working with medicinal herbs for 20 years, and has a BS in Herbal Sciences from Bastyr University. Cynthia served seven years on the Board of Directors for the North Country Herbalist Guild, a local non-profit providing education and resources for the ethical and sustainable use of medicinal plants.

“I have been blessed with many teachers from diverse backgrounds, all of who have helped to instill a deep respect for nature and faith in our collective power to heal.”
Cynthia Thomas

Come See The Minnesota Zoomobile

Saturday, June 21, 2008

10 to 11AM

Richard T. Anderson Conservation Area

Elizabeth Fries Ellet Interpretive Trail

18700 Flying Cloud Drive

1/6 mile past Lions Tap Restaurant

Free Event

This sprouting plant is a "fiddlehead," which is a common name for ferns when they are first emerging; they will uncurl into tall ferns. This could be an ostrich fern.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiddlehead