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The Making of Traditional Plant Medicine

The Syuxtun Plant Mentorship Collective meets to make traditional medicines from herbs.

Aired 11/10/2019 | Rating NR

Tending Nature

The Making of Traditional Plant Medicine

Clip: 11/10/2019 | 2m 57sVideo has Closed Captions

The Syuxtun Plant Mentorship Collective meets to make traditional medicines from herbs.

After tending to and collecting clippings from medicinal plants in the wild, the Syuxtun Plant Mentorship Collective meets to make traditional medicines from purple sage, we’wey and olive oil. Founder Julie Cordero-Lamb shares why the group was named after the former Chumash village that once stood in what is now Santa Barbara.

Aired 11/10/2019 | Rating NR

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