Zaníyan Center offers educational workshops that help people build practical skills in herbal medicine, growing food, sustainable living, emergency preparedness, and community resilience.
Upcoming Workshop | Free Admission
Herbs for the Zombie Apocalypse
Practical Skills for an Uncertain World
Monday, December 7, 2026, at 5:30 p.m.
Siletz Tribal Center
2892 Crescent Avenue
Eugene, Oregon 97408
FREE and open to all community members!
What happens when the systems we rely on are disrupted? Join herbalist, retired midwife, author, and educator Daphne Singingtree for a lively, practical workshop exploring how herbs, gardening, food growing, and community knowledge can help us prepare for emergencies and build resilience in uncertain times.
What We’ll Explore
- Using familiar herbs for common illnesses and injuries
- Creating a practical home herbal medicine supply
- Growing useful food and medicinal plants, even in small spaces
- Choosing hardy perennial foods and herbs
- Saving seeds and sharing traditional and practical knowledge
- Preparing for emergencies through cooperation and mutual aid
The workshop will also explore how these ideas inspired Daphne’s Circle for the Earth speculative fiction series, which imagines a modern community suddenly transported into the past and forced to survive without the systems it once depended upon.
Hosted by the Confederated Tribes of Siletz and Zaníyan Center.
Books and herbal products will be available for purchase following the presentation. Proceeds support the work of Zaníyan Center.
Learning Together
For generations, people have shared knowledge through stories, demonstrations, hands-on experience, and community gatherings. At Zaníyan Center, we believe education should be practical, accessible, and rooted in respect for the Earth and one another.
Daphne Singingtree sharing knowledge with community members during an educational gathering.
Our educational programs bring together traditional knowledge, contemporary research, and practical experience. Whether learning to prepare herbal medicine, grow food, or respond to emergencies, participants gain skills that strengthen both individual and community resilience.
Conference Presentations
Education extends beyond the classroom. Daphne Singingtree has shared her knowledge at science fiction conventions, permaculture conferences, integrative medicine gatherings, and other conferences and community events.
Her presentations explore speculative fiction, alternative history, Indigenous perspectives, environmental stewardship, herbal medicine, midwifery, and community resilience.
Past Workshops and Presentations
Zaníyan Center has offered educational programs on herbal medicine, sustainable agriculture, health, emergency preparedness, and community resilience for many years. Here are highlights from previous workshops and presentations.
2025
Making Herbal Medicine
February 21 | Mountain Rose Herbs, Eugene
Harvesting, drying, processing, and storing herbs, along with preparing herbal medicines and body care products.
2024
Lost Valley Holistic Sustainability Seminar
August 8 | Lost Valley Education Center
Healing Our Relationship With the Plant People
Integrative Medicine Clinics at Standing Rock Protests
Herbs for the Zombie Apocalypse
May 5 | Herbal medicine, useful plants, and practical preparation for unexpected emergencies.
2023
- Food as Medicine: Nutrition, wellness, food sovereignty, and food self-reliance.
- Making Herbal Products: Teas, tinctures, salves, lotions, and other herbal preparations.
- Herbs for Emergency Preparedness: Practical plant medicine and self-reliance during disruptions.
- Growing a Business: Creating and marketing a home business using products you grow.
2019
- Growing Resilience: Permaculture for Emergency Preparedness. Northwest Permaculture Convergence, September 28.
- Growing a Business. Northwest Permaculture Convergence, September 28.
- Native Perspectives on Plants. Lost Valley Holistic Sustainability Semester, October 21.
- Making Herbal Holiday Gifts. Eagletree Herbs, November 16.
2017
Decolonizing Natural Medicine: Increasing Access to Holistic Health for All
A conference exploring access to natural and integrative health care, Indigenous perspectives, community health, and practical approaches to healing.
Bring a Workshop to Your Community
Interested in hosting a workshop or inviting Daphne Singingtree to speak at your organization, conference, or community event?
Topics include herbal medicine, food growing, emergency preparedness, community resilience, Indigenous perspectives, midwifery, and the role of speculative fiction in imagining sustainable futures.
For inquiries, contact staff@zaniyan.org.
Be Prepared. Be Empowered. Be the Change.