Free Edible and Medicinal Plant Walk

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Dara is an Herbalist and Geographer with a passion for native plants, public lands, and community engagement.  She is the founder and primary instructor of the Albuquerque Herbalism bioregional herbal studies program and the author of the book The Ecology of Herbal Medicine (University of New Mexico Press).  She is a graduate of Dr. Tieraona Low Dog’s Foundations of Herbal Medicine Program and is currently a Geography and Environmental Studies PhD student focusing on plant-people relationships in a joint program at New Mexico State University and the University of New Mexico.  Additionally Dara has many years of fieldwork and resource management experience with the National Park Service and well as a long history of community volunteer service with the City of Albuquerque Open Space and the Bosque Ecosystem Monitoring Program (BEMP).  She is also a board member of the Native Plant Society Albuquerque Chapter, an instructor in UNM’s Sustainability Studies + Holistic Health + Curanderismo programs, a mother, gardener, and lover of wild places.

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