Mama Ravin, whose actual identify is Regina Lawson, has been internet hosting her “Natural Stroll & Discuss” in partnership with the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy for the previous decade. The “chat and chew” stroll takes individuals via Milliken State Park, stopping to establish edible herbs and be taught their culinary and medicinal properties alongside the best way. We just lately attended a tour, in addition to a medicinal herbs class in Hamtramck taught by Zarah Ackerwoman. That is what we noticed.
You may learn extra about how Detroiters are turning to herbalism and eating common weeds that grow in their backyards on this week’s Metro Instances cowl story.