If you live in northern Ontario, you are welcome to attend this workshop free of charge – please use the coupon code HERBNORTH when filling out the registration form to receive free admission.

If you identify as an Indigenous grower, land steward or community member, you are welcome to attend this workshop free of charge – please use the coupon code INDIG2025 when filling out the registration form to receive free admission.

This webinar is part of the webinar series Exploring a New Enterprise with Ignatius Farm.

Webinar Description:

Join Shabina as she shares her experience with  growing herbs for medicine and tea. How is growing herbs different from vegetables, harvest and drying techniques, as well as tips and tricks she has found useful. A recording of this webinar will be available.

Speaker: Shabina Lafleur-Gangji, co-director of Seed, Soil and Spirit School, Guelph

Shabina is a mixed Indian, Persian, and French herbalist who has been involved in healing justice work last decade. She works to support people in reclaiming their traditional knowledge through their connection with ancestral plants and has used herbal medicine as a way to fundraise for movements for freedom and liberation. She holds an advanced diplomat from Humber College’s Traditional Chinese Practition and Acupuncture Program and is a graduate of the the School of Ayurveda and Panchakarma in Kerala and the Living Earth School of Herbalism. She has studied alongside herbalists such as Dr. Nadine Ijaz, Janette Cormier, Scott Reid and Janice Canning.

This webinar is supported by funding from the Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario.