In partnership with The Center For Less Unpleasant Living and The Field, Kingston Land Trust will offer a free foraging walk at the Land In Black Hands land base led by Evan “Chipmunk” Pritchard and Karine “Greengirl” Gordineer. The walk is set for Wednesday, May 14 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. with check-in at 5 p.m. Participants are asked to RSVP for the event address at: https://kingstonlandtrust.org/events/our-medicine-all-around-us-walk-wild-evan-chipmunk-pritchard-and-karine-green-girl-gordineer

In this guided plants-as-medicine walk, Chipmunk and Greengirl will share plant wisdom and stories from their Algonquin elders as walkers make their way across the wild fields of traditional Esopus Munsee (Lenni-Lenape Delaware) territory of eastern Kingston. We will also discuss the local Native American history and culture of the area. Evan and Karine will be available afterwards to offer their books and herbal products for purchase.

Evan Pritchard (of Mi’kmaq descent) is the director of Center for Algonquin Culture and a university professor for 25 years. Pritchard is the author of over 70 books on Algonquin culture, including “Native New Yorkers,” “No Word For Time,” “Bird Medicine” and “Henry Hudson and the Algonquins of New York,” plus several books on herbs including “Aunt Helen’s Little Herb Book,” “Herbs Are Verbs” and “Wandering Bear,” a foraging young adult novel set in Ulster County. Pritchard may be reached at evan.pritchard7@gmail.com.

Karine Gordineer (of Mahican descent) is founder of Green Girl Herbs & Healing. Gordineer is a Certified Plant Spirit Healing Practitioner, Herbalist and Shamanic Practitioner. Gordineer is a Certified Reiki Master and Educator, offering individual healing sessions, herbal wellness consultations and classes. She has trained extensively in Plant Spirit Healing, Shamanism and energetic healing modalities, as well as medicinal herbalism. She has taught at the NY Open Center, the Omega Center, Center for Algonquin Culture and Marist College. She teaches Herbalism Beyond the Basics and other courses at The New York Botanical Garden. For more information, visit www.greengirlherbs.net.