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Tending the Wild
Gathering Medicine
Indigenous peoples in California relied on traditional gathering to provide for all of their food and medicinal needs. California's landscapes produce hundreds of indigenous plant species that have been used thousands of years prior to European contact. Many of these plants and their preparations as medicine informed modern pharmacopeia.
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his series examines how humans are necessary to live in balance with nature and how traditional practices can inspire a new generation of Californians to tend their environment