Linda Black Elk Finds 10+ Medicines Growing in 1 City Park!
Channel: Robin Greenfield
Date: 2021-12-21

Want to forage for wild food and medicine in your local city park? 
Linda Black Elk takes us on a walk around an urban park in Minneapolis, Minnesota and shows us how we can identify and use different medicines that are commonly found in public spaces!
Linda shows us that food and medicine is growing freely and abundantly all around us. She also shares her perspective on the safety of foraging in urban spaces and tips to get foraging.
 
Linda Black Elk is an Indigenous ethnobotanist, food sovereignty activist, teacher and a huge source of joy and inspiration. I could not begin to summarize the importance of the work she does both for her close community and our humanity. As a professor of food sovereignty at United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, North Dakota, she teaches passionately about culturally important plants and their uses as food, medicine and materials. She is empowering her people to relearn their traditional plant knowledge and to regain food sovereignty. As an activist, she stands strong against extractive industries and colonization that threatens our global humanity. No doubt she has inspired thousands to reconnect with Earth and to care for and protect this home that we all share together.
 
I have followed Linda since I first met her at the Florida herbal Conference in 2018 and am so grateful to have spent time with her this fall at the Midwest Wild Harvest festival and in Minneapolis. 
 
You must Follow Linda and learn from all the knowledge she shares, be empowered by her bold resistance and resilience and gain the skills to be a good relative to all plants and animals and steward of Earth!
 
Plant List:
1. Dandelion
2. Oak bark
3. Burdock
4. Pine pitch
5. Stinging nettle
6. Catnip
7. Violet
8. Basswood (Tilia)
9. Rose hip
10. Motherwort

Watch Foraging as an Act of Resistance with Linda Black Elk!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjca7v-xY-E&ab_channel=robingreenfield

Follow Linda Black Elk:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC__r9a7k8f12VPz-oJLVu1Q
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lindablackelk
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/linda.black.elk @linda.black.elk
 
Produced by Robin Greenfield and Jameson Johnson
Filmed by Evoke Films https://evokefilms.com
Edited by Max Anderson

Robin Greenfield is a truth-seeker, activist, social reformer and servant to Earth, humanity and our plant and animal relatives. He lives simply and sustainably to be the change he wishes to see in the world. Through living closely connected to Earth, he rejects the status quo of consumerism and demonstrates a way of being in gratitude, mindfulness and presence. His life is an experiment with truth and integrity.

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