We are so excited to welcome April Punsalan for our next Speaker Series.  For her presentation, Punsalan will introduce some of the most useful and medicinal plants found along the Carolina coast, including wax myrtle, yaupon, juniper, blanketflower, and more. Guests will learn how to recognize these coastal herbs and gain insight into the importance of ethical foraging and building a deeper connection with the surrounding ecosystem.

Punsalan’s Foraging Wild Herbs: 30 Healing Plants of the Coastal Carolinas is a hands-on guide for anyone seeking to connect with the wild herbs growing around them. Grounded in botanical science and traditional herbalism, this book teaches readers to confidently identify, ethically harvest, and use thirty healing plants.

Foraging Wild Herbs: 30 Healing Plants of the Coastal Carolinas will be available for sale at the event. 

About April:

April serves as a voice for plants.  She weaves the different plant science fields, botany, plant taxonomy, plant conservation, and herbalism to reconnect humans to the Earth.  Her 28-year plant journey has led to a Bachelor and Master of Science, emphasis in Botany, a two-year Horticulture Degree, a Traditional Herbalist Certificate, and specialized botanical training in the ferns and fern allies, grasses, sedges, and bryophytes.  April’s mission is to teach you how to forage your food and medicine to help you improve your health and the health of the Earth.