Urban Foraging for Rootworkers: Summer Gathering
Sun, Jul 28
|Enlgewood Village Farms
Have you been wanting to get into your Rootwork bag? Then come join us while we learn to forage for native plants in our urban environment.


Time & Location
Jul 28, 2024, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM CDT
Enlgewood Village Farms, 5822 S Halsted St, Chicago, IL 60621, USA
Guests
About the Event
Hoodoo. Rootwork. Plant Medicine.
Have you been wanting to get into your Rootwork bag? Then come join us while we learn to forage for native plants in our urban environment. Learn how to identity and utilize native plants for spiritual baths, protection, abundance work and more. If you are looking to reconnect to our black ancestral ways of working, come join us Sunday, July 28th at Englewood Village Farms
About the Facilitator, Jatohn "Jah" Redeaux | @carinaeconjure:
Jatohn (or Jah) [she / her] is many things--a Conjurer, a Rootworker, an Ancestral Medium, an Apetebi within Orisha Tradition, and a teacher. But in the simplest terms, they are a Hoodoo. Her people come by way of Natchez, Mississippi, and Opelousas, Louisiana, and made their way to Chicago (the land of the Kiikaapoi, Peoria, Kaskaskia, Potawatomi, Myaamia and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ people) during the Great Migration. She was very blessed to have the…
Schedule
15 minutesMeet & Intros
Bynum Island
30 minutesIdentifying Native Plants