Native Traditions of Wild Rice Harvesting on Friday Afternoon:
Robert Shimek
Due to COVID taking our opportunity away to hold the festival last year, we are adding a guest speaker presentation Friday afternoon. Throughout the weekend, Sam Thayer will be leading hand processing of wild rice demonstrations. Bob will be with us to discuss traditions of wild rice harvesting on Friday afternoon before the potluck. He will also lead a class Saturday morning on using corn and wild berries to make an excellent dish.
Robert Shimek
Due to COVID taking our opportunity away to hold the festival last year, we are adding a guest speaker presentation Friday afternoon. Throughout the weekend, Sam Thayer will be leading hand processing of wild rice demonstrations. Bob will be with us to discuss traditions of wild rice harvesting on Friday afternoon before the potluck. He will also lead a class Saturday morning on using corn and wild berries to make an excellent dish.
Keynote presentation on Friday evening:
by Alan Bergo "Forager Chef"
His talk Friday evening will be: "The Foraging Gene"
by Alan Bergo "Forager Chef"
His talk Friday evening will be: "The Foraging Gene"
Keynote Presentation on Saturday Evening:
by Linda Black Elk
Linda Black Elk is an ethnobotanist specializing in teaching about culturally important plants and their uses as food, medicine, and materials. Linda works to build hands-on curriculum and ways of thinking that will promote and protect food sovereignty, traditional plant knowledge, and environmental quality as an extension of the fight against hydraulic fracturing and the fossil fuels industry. Linda takes the mantra “good is medicine” very literally, teaching classes on simples ways to incorporate “edible medicinals” in to everyone’s diet. She has written for numerous publications, and is the author of “Watoto Unyutapi”, a field guide to edible wild plants of the Dakota people. Linda is the mother to three Lakota boys and serves as the Food Sovereignty Coordinator at United Tribes Technical College.
by Linda Black Elk
Linda Black Elk is an ethnobotanist specializing in teaching about culturally important plants and their uses as food, medicine, and materials. Linda works to build hands-on curriculum and ways of thinking that will promote and protect food sovereignty, traditional plant knowledge, and environmental quality as an extension of the fight against hydraulic fracturing and the fossil fuels industry. Linda takes the mantra “good is medicine” very literally, teaching classes on simples ways to incorporate “edible medicinals” in to everyone’s diet. She has written for numerous publications, and is the author of “Watoto Unyutapi”, a field guide to edible wild plants of the Dakota people. Linda is the mother to three Lakota boys and serves as the Food Sovereignty Coordinator at United Tribes Technical College.