Join Shabina as she shares her experience with growing herbs for medicine and tea. She will discuss how growing herbs differs from growing vegetables, different 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

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 part of the Ignatius Farm New Farmer Training Program – a collaboration between Ignatius Jesuit Centre, EFAO, Everdale and the National Farmers Union – Ontario.