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Hello from beautiful downtown Hamilton, ON. You may know our city as The Hammer, covered in smog generated by Dofasco and Stelco. But it’s also home to the world-famous Royal Botanical Gardens and the Gage Park Greenhouses and offers 100+ waterfall trails along the Niagara Escarpment. Nature is very accessible to us city dwellers.
I’m a recently retired HR consultant with a long-standing interest in the impact of nature on people in the workplace as well as native plants and food security. I started gardening as a child, became a Master Gardener in 2013 and completed a certificate in Horticulture at University of Guelph in 2015 to get some scientific underpinnings. My daughter is a midwife who uses herbs with her mums and families, many of whom are Mennonite.
The Home Herbalist program caught my attention as I’m keen to learn how to incorporate herbal medicine into my day to day life and ensure maximum physical, mental and spiritual wellness as I age.