2023
2020-2024 Garden Gift Baskets Seeds, plant starts, and garden materials were donated to Indigenous families and Elders. Baskets were provided to the Siletz Tribe, and the Bethel School Garden Project. As well as given out at PowWows.
2023 Workshops
Saturday, June 5th Making Herbal Products Advantages of Making Your Own Herbal Medicine & Body Care Products, General Guidelines in Medicinal Plants & Herbal Medicine, Harvesting, Drying, and Storing Herbs Definitions and how to make: Infusions, Cold Extracts, Decoctions, Tinctures – Alcohol, Glycerin, Vinegar, Syrups & Elixirs, Infused Oils, Salves & Balms, Lotions & Creams, Aromatherapy Misters, Compresses & Poultices, Honeys & Electuary, Other Herbal Products
Saturday, June 26 1-4pm Food As Medicine How food promotes wellness and healing. Foods that boost the immune system, reduce inflammation and address specific health issues. Relationship between unhealthy weight gain and trauma. What is Food Sovereignty and how it applies to both tribal and urban communities. Benefits of Growing Food to combat Inequities in the Food System. Simple ways to promote food self-reliance. Pitfalls of unhealthy eating and ways to promote slow foods in daily life. Relationship between unhealthy weight gain and trauma.
Saturday, July 18 2023 1-4pm Herbs for Emergency Preparedness With a focus on growing and making herbal products to have on hand for a variety of unexpected or emergency situations. Also discussed will be which plants to grow to increase your self-reliance if there are breakdowns in accessing usual resources. Herbs for emergency situations like smoke from wildfires, trauma and stress, first aid, and disorders seen in these circumstances.
Saturday, August 15th1-4pm Growing a Business – Outline of what is needed to create your own home business from things you grow. Examples from Eagletree Herbs of things to do and not do. Accessing business help and resources. Marketing and social media.
2018-2020
2019-2020 Learn with Elders Program
2019-2020 Garden Helper Referral Program
2018-2020 Eugene to Dakotas Donation Drive
2018- 2021 Lakota Christmas Gift Drive
2018-19 Food Grows Community Inter-generational “Elder Lunch” Project
Partnered with Reality Kitchen
2017
Two day conference: Decolonizing Natural Medicine Increasing Access for All
Held on Saturday, October 14th, 2017, at the Lane Community College Longhouse. The objectives of this conference are to learn mind-body-heart-spirit tools that professionals can integrate into our practices to further the healing of those we serve. This conference is designed for healers and health professionals, including MD, DO, ND, DC, RN, LAc, PA, NP, Herbalists, Midwives, Energy Healers, Counselors, Community Health Workers, LMT and body workers, community members, activists and students entering the healing professions. Conference topics, all presented by regional experts-in-the-field include: Movement Therapeutics; The Diagnostic Skills of Tai Chi, Healing Community with Plants, Creating New Healthy Traditions, Food Grows Community (panel discussion), Herbal Pain Relief; Effective Alternatives to Opiates, Moving Toward Trauma-Sensitive Healing Arts Practices and Occupy Medical; Bringing Herbs to the People.
One Day Workshop: Preparedness Equals Resilience
10 am to 4 pm Sunday Dec. 3, 2017
Held at: Trauma Healing Project Classroom 2222 Coburg Rd # 300, Eugene, OR 97401
Woods Wise: Safety for Wildcrafters — Heron Brae
Being “woods wise” means knowing your landscape and using your awareness to get around and take care of yourself in an unknown situation in the woods. The skills of staying alive in the field are sometimes assumed to be common sense, but most of us don’t know the basic steps to keep ourselves safe in dire situations. In this workshop we will discuss the practical applications of orienting to your location, navigation without map and compass, gear and tools to be prepared, and how to seek shelter if you do have to face spending a night in the woods.
Garden Medicine: Top Herbs for Community Resilience and Emergency Preparedness – Orna Izakson NDi
When a natural or political disaster hits, how will you take care of your own? In such situations, herbalists can expect to be on the front lines of health care. And just as people grew food-based “victory gardens” during wartime, herbalists can prepare with medicinal gardens to bolster self sufficiency and community resilience. The first half of this class puts forward criteria for prioritizing plantings on the home and community level. We’ll consider Permaculture principles, abundance and growth needs of different medicinal plants, common regional and emergency health needs, mapping and community organizing to avoid redundancy, and how to plug in if you don’t have garden space of your own. In the second half we’ll discuss specific medicinal plants for these purposes, including how to grow them and how to use them. While most examples will be based on what grows well in the Pacific Northwest, the concepts and many herbs will be applicable to other bioregions.
Making Your Integrative Medicine “Go” Bag – A well stocked first aid kit is important to prepared for natural disasters, unexpected travel, or everyday emergencies. We will discuss what herbs, or homeopathics, flower essences, or other natural remedies you may also want to include. This workshop will focus on how to build and store your own practical first kit based on the integrated medicine approach. Facilitated by Daphne Singingtree, a lifelong “prepper” who sees a paradigm shift approaching, while disaster big or small can strike any time, if the “shift” hits the fan, she has band aids not bullets, prepares to not just to survive but to serve.
2016 to 2017
Support for Standing Rock NoDAPL Protests
selected blog posts:
A note from Kate Harnedy Oct 2016
Standing Rock Funding Jan 2017
2016
Creation of an community herbal medicine library thanks to a grant from Mountain Rose Herbs.