Channel: Rob Greenfield

Category: Education

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Description: Want to forage for wild food and medicine in your local city park? Linda Black Elk takes us on a walk around an urban park in Minneapolis, Minnesota and shows us how we can identify and use different medicines that are commonly found in public spaces! Linda shows us that food and medicine is growing freely and abundantly all around us. She also shares her perspective on the safety of foraging in urban spaces and tips to get foraging. Linda Black Elk is an Indigenous ethnobotanist, food sovereignty activist, teacher and a huge source of joy and inspiration. I could not begin to summarize the importance of the work she does both for her close community and our humanity. As a professor of food sovereignty at United Tribes Technical College in Bismarck, North Dakota, she teaches passionately about culturally important plants and their uses as food, medicine and materials. She is empowering her people to relearn their traditional plant knowledge and to regain food sovereignty. As an activist, she stands strong against extractive industries and colonization that threatens our global humanity. No doubt she has inspired thousands to reconnect with Earth and to care for and protect this home that we all share together. I have followed Linda since I first met her at the Florida herbal Conference in 2018 and am so grateful to have spent time with her this fall at the Midwest Wild Harvest festival and in Minneapolis. You must Follow Linda and learn from all the knowledge she shares, be empowered by her bold resistance and resilience and gain the skills to be a good relative to all plants and animals and steward of Earth! Plant List: 1. Dandelion 2. Oak bark 3. Burdock 4. Pine pitch 5. Stinging nettle 6. Catnip 7. Violet 8. Basswood (Tilia) 9. Rose hip 10. Motherwort Watch Foraging as an Act of Resistance with Linda Black Elk! youtube.com/watch?v=Rjca7v-xY-E&ab_channel=RobGreenfield Follow Linda Black Elk: YouTube: youtube.com/channel/UC__r9a7k8f12VPz-oJLVu1Q Facebook: facebook.com/lindablackelk Instagram: instagram.com/linda.black.elk @linda.black.elk Produced by Rob Greenfield and Jameson Johnson Filmed by Evoke Films evokefilms.com Edited by Max Anderson Rob Greenfield’s work is Creative Commons and this content is free to be republished and redistributed, following the terms of the creative commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 license. Learn about Creative Commons and see the guidelines here: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 — Rob Greenfield is an activist and humanitarian dedicated to leading the way to a more sustainable and just world. He embarks on extreme projects to bring attention to important global issues and inspire positive change. 100% of his media income is donated to grassroots nonprofits. His YouTube channel is a source to educate, inspire and help others to live more sustainable, equal and just lives. Videos frequently cover sustainable living, simple living, growing your own food, gardening, self-sufficiency, minimalism, off the grid living, zero waste, living in a tiny house and permaculture. Find Rob Greenfield on: Website: RobGreenfield.org Instagram: instagram.com/RobJGreenfield @RobJGreenfield Facebook: facebook.com/RobGreenfield YouTube: youtube.com/RobGreenfield Twitter: twitter.com/RobJGreenfield @RobJGreenfield —