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Thanks to the Mountain Rose Herbs and the Grants 4 Plants funding, we've been able
to have free workshops for our sport project at the Salish Roots Farm. We've grown mushrooms, and
buckets on logs, made mushroom tinctures, learned about medicinal mushrooms, gone
on mushroom forays, and cooked healthy mushroom meals. Next week the Food Box Program begins at
the farm and we'll be incorporating harvested morel mushrooms with recipe cards that include
some harvested foods from the tribal garden. We are currently working out of a temporary
mushroom lab space growing six different strains of mushrooms including lion's mane, reishi, turkey
tail, shiitake, wine cap, and oyster varieties. By the end of this month we'll have built our
permanent lab space we have a couple temporary fruiting areas as well. But as soon as the lab is
built, we will be fruiting in bigger spaces to increase our mushroom growing capacity.
[Music] Last Saturday we hosted a community herbal medicine making workshop at the Cuyama Valley
Family Resource Center focused on kitchen and at-home herbalism as a way to empower
our community and reclaiming their health and wellness via creating medicines with
native and garden plants in their local area. We were so excited to have been able to offer this
bilingual workshop in English and Spanish to make this plant medicine knowledge accessible to our
local Cuyama community who holds so much of this wisdom and their respective ancestries as well
we're looking forward to being in continual relation and reciprocal skill sharing to
further uplift and provide more variety of resources to this amazing Desert Valley
Community. We hold deep gratitude to our friends at the FRC for providing a space
for us to share and for believing in the work we do and are so passionate about. [Music]
It's spring at Bottoms Up Community Garden here in West Oakland California. Our elderberry trees are
in bloom and starting to bear fruit. Our second year mullein is lush and it's leaves soon ready
to harvest. We have been creating our lung support curriculum for our four-part course Breathe Deep.
Soon we'll be hosting our early spring workshop when will it where we will discuss lung health
and factors affecting the lungs health and disparities in urban environments. Our project
aims to provide community education and access to herbal medicines and to combat health disparities
in West Oakland as well as increase community knowledge around herbalism and methods of state
sustainable urban agriculture and provide greater access to these vital respiratory support remedies
that are particularly... particularly needed in the community during California's wildfire season.
[Music] Here are plants that are growing or will be growing at Solano and San Quentin
State Prisons through Insight Garden Program. We use plants and land-based knowledge to heal and
grow relationships with each other. The mandala below depicts the four directions using marigolds,
plantain, comfrey, lemongrass, yarrow, goldenrod, fever few, valerian, and calendula. Additional plants that
we'll be bringing in are echinacea, lavender, more yarrow, mullein, peppers, strawberries, cucumbers,
and mustard just to name a few. These plants go a long way in providing healing education
and community to people who are experiencing incarceration throughout California state prisons.
Additional plants are being brought in continuously throughout the year and we hope
to bring abundance to all those who we service through plants gardening and community. [Music]