Learning, Sharing, Adapting with Plants

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Event starts on this day

Mar

2

2025

Event starts at this time 11:30 am – 3:00 pm
In Person (view details)
Featured Speaker(s): Nancy Turner
Cost: Free
Enjoy a hands-on science activity fair for all ages, followed by an exploration of the ways plants and Indigenous peoples have lived and thrived together for thousands of years, at the 2025 Jean Andrews Plant Biology celebration.

Description

A woman in glasses and a cowl-necked sweater smiles, with a tiled wall behind her.

Nancy Turner is an award-winning ethnobotanist and distinguished professor emerita in ethnoecology with the School of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She has worked with First Nations elders and cultural specialists in northwestern North America for over 50 years, helping to document, retain and promote their traditional knowledge of plants and environments, including Indigenous foods, materials and traditional medicines.

Location

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center 
4801 La Crosse Ave, Austin, Texas

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