Do you know which Alaskan plants are useful for eating and healing?
The Third Annual Alaskan Plants as Food and Medicine Symposium will take place in the Anchorage area August 7-9. The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium sponsors the event and says they strive for a statewide reach and encourage participation from a diverse range of community roles – traditional healers, medical providers, public health educators and researchers, instructors, culture/language bearers, elders and youth, tribal leaders, traditional hunter/gatherers, policy makers and lands management officials.
The objectives of the symposium:
• List ways Alaskan plants can be used as food and medicine
• Understand the cultural significance of Alaskan plants for health and well-being
• Describe ways to respectfully gather, process, prepare, store, use and distribute Alaskan plants
• Discuss how to be respectful of traditional plant knowledge
• Encourage the use and protection of local food resources in a way that will benefit future generations.
Advance registration is closed, however registration at the door opens at 8 a.m., Aug. 7. Cost for elders is $150.
For more information, visit http://www.alaskanplants.org.
