Endangered Native Medicinal Plants

Come join Penelope Beaudrow as she shares her heart’s work with us!  As the recipient of the 2021 United Plant Savers Conservation award, she will bring her unique perspective as a Registered Herbalist and Land Steward of Kina Gegoo Botanical Sanctuary to this talk.  A significant part of her work, which she will share, is to educate and protect native medicinal plants of North America and their native habitat while helping to ensure an abundant renewable supply of medicinal plants for generations to come.

With herbs moving into mainstream, and the demand on wild medicinal plants increases, we are using up the supply of these herbs.  This increased usage along with habitat destruction is causing an ever-increasing shortage of wild plant resources, including some of our most treasured medicinal species.  This is a real concern for all plant enthusiasts!  Learn some startling facts and how we are making a difference and you can too.

Herbal elder Penelope Beaudrow, founded and maintains The Ginkgo Tree, a center dedicated to ecological stewardship and restoration and the transmission of the fundamental principles and practices of herbal medicine. The Ginkgo Tree is home to The Kina Gegoo Botanical Sanctuary, which fosters many at risk and endangered plants and serves as the training ground for Penelope’s herbal apprenticeship program.  The focus has always been that of giving back, both to the land and the wider community. As part of these ongoing efforts, Penelope and The Ginkgo Tree have successfully spearheaded a team that has worked to stop the traditional herbal tonic – Fire Cider – from becoming a trademarked commodity in Canada. For more information about Penelope and The Ginkgo Tree please visit: https://theginkgotree.ca

This will be a hybrid meeting with both in person and on-line options available.

In-person:

St. Mark’s Church Hall, 1606 Fisher Ave, Ottawa
**Attendees must wear masks. Before attending in person, please screen yourself for Covid symptoms using this questionnaire. If you have any symptoms, stay home and use the on-line option instead.
Unfortunately, snacks and beverages will not be served at this meeting, though we hope to be able to resume with refreshments in the future.

On-line:

This is a free presentation and there is no registration required.  A recording will be available for members only for 14 days after the presentation.  Please consider supporting the future activities of the OHS though renewing your membership or joining for $15/yr, or though a donation.

How to view the presentation

To join the presentation, please click on this You Tube link to go to the OHS You Tube Channel.   To simply watch the presentation there is nothing else you need to do.  The presentation will also be recorded and available at this link afterwards. The easiest way to find the channel is using the link; if you are on You Tube and do a search please use Ottawa Horticultural Society (we aren’t the only ones that use OHS as an acronym!)

Starting the video

Once you are on the site, you must click on the rectangle of the video to start watching.   Until 7:30 you will see a screen that says the presentation will begin at 7:30 p.m., so please be patient.

If you think you may want to ask a question

There will be a Q &A session at the end of the presentation when your questions submitted will be put to the speaker by the moderator.  You can put your question in the live chat panel on the YouTube page while the presentation is running. To make a comment, you need to be registered and have a personal Youtube channel. Steps to do this are described below.

How to create a personal channel  

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1646861?hl=en

 Follow these instructions to create a channel that only you can manage using your Google Account. 

1. Sign in to YouTube from a Google account on a computer or using the mobile site.
2. Try any action that requires a channel, such as uploading a video, posting a comment, or creating a playlist.
3. If you don’t yet have a channel, you’ll see a prompt to create a channel.
4. Check the details (with your Google Account name and photo) and confirm to create your new channel.