Wild Food & Medicine Plant Walk
A co-led plant walk led by forager & doula Natalie Ann Evans and herbalist Alex Williams
For this walk, I am joined by the delightful Natalie Ann Evans, forager, educator, for a deeper exploration of the edible plants of our bioregion, with a little bit of the medicinal uses of plants from myself!
Connect with plants, learn about ethical foraging and wildcrafting, deepen your ecological awareness of our unique and beautiful bioregion, and gain a better understanding of how to utilize our local plants and mushrooms for food or medicine from the perspective of both a forager, doula, and wild foods enthusiast, Natalie Ann Evans, and a clinical herbalist, Alex Williams.
We will discover different plants (and possibly some mushrooms) at a laid back evening walk through Horner Park.
~ There are only 15 spots available per workshop ~
About Natalie
Natalie Evans (she/her) is an educator, doula, and forager in Chicago. In her work with plants, she understands the beauty and importance of a diverse ecosystem, and brings this mindset into a holistic approach to working with people. She offers services within a framework that supports gender expansiveness, neurodiversity, antiracism, and weight neutrality.
As a wild edible foods instructor, Natalie teaches people how to forage safely and ethically. She studied foraging with survivalist Chris Mayor from 2014-2017 and completed a year-long Wild Edible Foods Instructor program at the Resiliency Institute, taught by beloved ecologist Pat Armstrong. In 2019, she returned to the Resiliency Institute to complete a program in Bioregional Herbalism. Natalie champions urban foraging within the city of Chicago and is also part of Wonderland Community Project, an agroforestry land community in rural McHenry County, Illinois.
About Alex
Hello! I’m Alex, co-founder of First Curve Apothecary and founder of Greenspell. As a clinical herbalist, I work with my clients to support them in cultivating rituals that emphasize rest and genuine self-care, offering personalized herbal formulas in support of these goals.
In addition to working with clients, I offer herbalism classes and apprenticeship, run First Curve Apothecary which offers sliding-scale herbal remedies to Chicago communities, teach sociology at Roosevelt University and the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, and every once in a while, write an occasional haiku. To learn more about my journey as an herbalist, read on!
