Learn about the blended healing traditions of Metis people of Southern Alberta. Everyone is Welcome. This segment of Lii Bonn Michinn includes bear teachings, animal medicine, and a little bit of tanning, fire-building and winter skills. This event takes place outdoors around a fire. Dress warm and bring your tea mug, chairs and blankets. Some […]
The sticky buds of the Balsam Poplar (Populus balsamifera) are the Medicine of Springtime. Used around the world to seal up wounds, they stop bleeding and relieve pain while preventing infection. The balsam tree really is Nature’s Bandage! This festival of trees is part herb-walk, part outdoor apothecary experience. We will steep our medicine over an open fire, from harvest to creation of a take-home medicine chest of balsam tree goodies, all in one afternoon.
Lii Bonn Michinn Spring Plant Walk - Meet the Medicines in Flower at Nose Hill Park, Calgary. Following suite with other Lii Bonn Michinn workshops, this event is an intensive 3-hour teaching on the identification of, and traditional uses for, food and medicine plants available in the prairie/grassland ecosystem in May. Workshop For: This workshop […]
Explore 3 unique ecosystems in Fish Creek Park with a Metis Herbalist. We will move along the riverbanks, under cottonwoods and through the prairie grasses of the Bow River Valley, sharing information from Metis plant culture and relationships. Teachings on the identification of, and traditional uses for food and medicine plants of the Metis focus […]