REVERED ROOTS

With Indigenous Métis herbalist LoriAnn Bird as your guide connect with the ancestral wisdom of over 90 wild edible and medicinal plants from across North America. A purposeful and powerful reference to the lessons nourishment healing and history of our “plant teachers” Revered Roots shares guidance on exploring gathering and reclaiming these long-revered plants as food and medicine. Separated into two sections LoriAnn first reveals her own journey to understanding and respecting our plant elders. She offers teachings and lessons about remembering our relationship to the plants around us and our responsibility to the earth that sustains us.The second part of the book is filled with insightful illustrated plant profiles detailing the identification uses and Indigenous folklore of some of the continent’s most treasured ancestral plants. Included are edible and medicinal bark berries and buds from trees and shrubs as well as foliage flowers and fronds from herbs “weeds” and wildflowers; some native to the continent others introduced generations ago. Learn about the gifts our Rooted Nation of plants has to offer including: Evergreen tips from spruces pines and firs Hawthorn berries leaves and flowers Plantain seeds and foliage Oswego tea leaves and bloomsSlippery elm barkMotherwort flowers stems and leavesBlack cohosh roots and rhizomes Marshmallow rootCottonwood buds and barkPlus dozens moreReclaiming our natural rhythms and connections to the earth we walk on is essential to our health and well-being both as individuals and as a community. One simple way to do that is by appreciating respecting and seeking to understand the plants around us.