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LoriAnn Bird

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Join Airmid Institute on May 6th at 10:30 AM PT for a special webinar titled Ancient Teaching and Wisdom From Our Plant Relatives with LoriAnn Bird, Indigenous Métis Herbalist and author of Revered Roots, as she shares ancestral teachings and wisdom from our plant relatives.

Explore remembering and reclaiming kinship with all that exists. Like the Medicine Wheel, Revered Roots is designed with four sections—offering principles to guide us: responsibility, relationship, reciprocity, and respect and reverence for all life.

In our time of gathering, LoriAnn will share stories about the Four Sacred Medicines: tobacco, sage, sweetgrass, and cedar. Then she will travel through the seasons honoring the gifts of spring with yarrow, summer with lavender, autumn with rosehip, and into the winter with juniper berry.

In these profound times we are navigating, it may be the perfect moment to reconnect with our living territories and step into our role as true guardians of this beautiful planet we call Mother Earth, she who gives us life.

LoriAnn Bird is an Indigenous Metis herbalist, author and educator with a deep knowledge of wild, medicinal and edible plants that grow in everyday spaces. Through LoriAnn’s eyes, our immediate surroundings take on a new life and offer a wealth of untapped nutritional and ecological relationships. As a person of mixed heritage, LoriAnn is reminded of our interconnection with our ‘living territories’ and our more-than-human-kin, the plants, who are considered our relatives.

LoriAnn’s vision is to continually co-create insightful dialogues, to remediate and reconcile with our Indigenous plants as we reintroduce them into our urban landscapes, regenerating and rewilding to make space for habitat. By sharing and growing these practices, communities can access our true local foods and medicines, which support collective resilience and deep ecological healing for all species.

As a refugee of the Red River Metis Nation, born and raised on the Coast Salish lands, LoriAnn is deeply grateful to live on the unceded & traditional territories of the Coast Salish Peoples – xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.

Join us this Earth Day, April 22, 2025, from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM PT, for a special collaboration between Airmid Institute and the North Etiwanda Preserve (NEP) as we take part in EarthDay.Org’s Great Global Cleanup!

The NEP is a protected habitat spanning over 1,200 acres, home to the rare Riversidean Alluvial Fan Sage Scrub plant community and fragile plant species like white sage (Salvia apiana) and the Coastal California gnatcatcher (Polioptila californica).

Come ready to connect with Nature, learn, and make a meaningful impact!

For details about the event, please contact [email protected].