Botany and the Body series: This Beautiful Skin That We Are In

$55 members/$65 non-members

In the first session of the Botany and the Body series, we’ll explore how plants and trees can help care for our largest sensory organ—our skin!

Participants will learn techniques to enhance circulation, hydration, and overall skin wellness, including facial steams and washes, healing baths, foot soaks, rosewaters, hair and skin oils, and skin brushing.

Featured plants may include witch hazel, elderflower, cedar, rose, horse chestnut, calendula, chamomile, rose, balsam fir, marshmallow, meadowsweet, sunflower, flax, evening primrose, nettles, black willow, hickory, birch, wintergreen, and horsetail. Attendees will also create and take home their own healing cedar-rose bath soak sachets.

Each participant receives a complimentary face serum or body scrub from Ursa Major.

Dr. Jessica Dolan is an environmental anthropologist and ethnobotanist, who has worked with Indigenous communities and environmental caretakers in the Northeast, as a researcher, writer, and on Indigenous history, land stewardship, food sovereignty, and cultural regeneration projects, for the last 20 years. She currently works at the National Park Service Northeast Region, Native American Affairs, and is writing an ethnobotany field guide. Her daily work involves writing, creating interpretive resources, and planning/teaching environmental stewardship education, across the Northeast. She is a loving parent to a third generation Brattleboro kid.