“Foraging & Feasting” with herbalist and author Dina Falconi at Washington College

CHESTERTOWN, MD — Dina Falconi, a clinical herbalist with a focus on food activism and nutritional healing, will kick off the Center for Environment & Society’s 20th Anniversary Events Series on September 17, 2019 with her talk “Foraging & Feasting.”

The free and public presentation will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Litrenta Lecture Hall at Washington College’s Toll Science Center, followed by a book sale and signing.

An avid gardener, wildcrafter, and permaculturist, Falconi has been teaching classes about the use of herbs for food, medicine, and personal care, including wild food foraging and cooking, for more than 20 years. She created Falcon Formulations natural body care products and Earthly Extracts medicinal tinctures.

She is a founding member of the Northeast Herbal Association, a chapter leader of the Weston A. Price Foundation, and an organizer of Slow Food-Hudson Valley. She is the author of “Earthly Bodies & Heavenly Hair: Natural and Healthy Personal Care for Everybody” and “Foraging & Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook.”

Falconi’s “Foraging & Feasting” presentation will explore the culinary treasures hidden in wild foods. Learn to identify, harvest, and prepare these ancient foods so you can easily incorporate them into your daily meals. Falconi will present slides of botanically accurate illustrations and discuss master recipes from her book “Foraging & Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook.”

For more information on these events or the Center for Environment & Society at Washington College, visit the website at www.washcoll.edu/centers/ces, or visit our Facebook at www.facebook.com/CenterforEnvironmentandSociety/.