Come spend the evening getting deeply acquainted with one medicinal plant! This month we'll focus on burdock.
Whether you’ve bought burdock in the grocery store or never heard of it before, I can guarantee that you’ve walked past dozens of burdock plants digging their taproots into our city soil to break up compaction and bring nutrients up to the surface.
Join herbalist Mo Katz-Christy for an hour and half of learning all about this powerful plant. We will connect with burdock through smell, taste, drawing, science, and storytelling. We will learn how burdock helps clear the blood, steady blood sugar, and modulate gut motility.
This event is the last in our Herb of the Month series. Visit mokatzchristy.com/learn to learn about other upcoming classes!
About Mo Katz-Christy:
Mo Katz-Christy (they/them) is a queer Ashkenazi Jewish herbalist born and raised in Cambridge, MA on unceded Massachusett land. They approach herbalism by connecting folks to the knowledge they already have about their body and herbs through working with kitchen medicine, ancestral traditions, and mulberries falling on the sidewalk!
Mo graduated from a three-year clinical herbalism program at the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism in 2022. They work one-on-one with clients to address the root imbalances that are causing dysregulation and to build long-term healing. You can find out more about their work at mokatzchristy.com.
Questions? Contact Kerry at keodonnell@somervillema.gov.
This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Somerville Public Library.
Thanks, Friends!
