Native Medicinal Plant Conservation in Virginia with Susan Leopold
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Thursday, November 3, 2022
7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
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Susan Leopold will give an overview of United Plant Savers’ mission and organization and talk about projects that link in conservation in Virginia. United Plant Savers is a member of the Appalachian Beginners Forest Farming project which is spearheaded by Virginia Tech. United Plant Savers runs the Forest Grown Verification program and provided resources and information on growing woodland medicinals that provides free classes and downloads of the Forest Farmers Handbook. Other programs of interest are the plant savers botanical sanctuary network where you can look up sanctuaries by state and see all the registered sanctuaries in Virginia. This will be a very informative talk and interactive time for questions. https:// www.appalachianforestfarmers.org/
Susan Leopold, PhD, is an ethnobotanist and passionate defender of biodiversity. Over the past 20 years, Susan has worked extensively with indigenous peoples in Peru and Costa Rica. She is the Executive Director of United Plant Savers and Director of the Sacred Seeds Project. Prior to working at United Plant Savers, she worked as a librarian at the Oak Spring Garden Library, specializing in digitizing rare herbals and botanical travel manuscripts. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Botanical Dimensions and the Center for Sustainable Economy. She is an advisory board member of American Botanical Council. She is a proud member of the Patawomeck Indian Tribe of Virginia and the author of the children’s book Isabella’s Peppermint Flower, teaching about Virginia’s botanical history. She lives on and manages a productive farm, the Indian Pipe Botanical Sanctuary, with her three children in Virginia, where she raises goats, peacocks, and herbs. She is an avid recreational tree climber, in love with the canopy just as much as the herbs of the forest floor.