Black Ecologies Workshop Series
Image courtesy of Pili X, West Philly Peace Park.
Details
Fall 2021: Organized by Tajah Ebram, Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing & Writing Fellow at Haverford College, the four part Black Ecologies Workshop Series centers the knowledge, traditions and practices of local Black land and nature based practitioners, organizers and scholars.
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The series is sponsored by the Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities, the Committee for Environmental Responsibility (CER), the Bi-College Department of Environmental Studies, the Haverfarm, and the Haverford College Arboretum.
Black Urban Farmers Demonstration & Discussion
Thursday, September 16, 2021
Session 1: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. & Session 2: 1-2:30 p.m.
Haverford College Apts Garden (HCA Garden)
Facilitators: Pili X, coordinator/organizer, West Philly Peace Park & Stanley Morgan, urban farmer & organizer, Urban Creators
During the Farm Demo and Discussion workshop, students and participants will engage with the two Black urban Farmers who organize for food access and sovereignty in the city. The workshop will begin with a short presentation by the facilitators, along with time for Q&A. The second half of the workshop will include hands-on guided work in the HCA garden— performing general maintenance and planting fall/winter crops. This workshop is the beginning of a project to recover the HCA garden as a viable space for student access to free organic produce at Haverford. This series is an outgrowth of the Black Ecologies first year writing seminar.
Limited water and snacks will be provided.
Bring water.
Join us! This Workshop will be followed by work parties throughout the semester.
Photo: Patrick Montero
HCA Garden Work Session
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Session 1: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. & Session 2: 1-2:30 p.m.
Haverford College Apts Garden (HCA Garden)
Facilitators: Black Ecologies Seminar Students + Dr. Tajah Ebram
This is an informal work session at HCA Garden to continue maintaining the garden and tracking the progress of our fall/winter plants with students from the Black Ecologies writing seminar ! There will be time to do a short writing exercise with writing seminar students toward the end of the session!
Plant ID Walk
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Session 1: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. & Session 2: 1-2:30 p.m.
Haverford College Nature Trail
Facilitator: Tiffany Johnson-Robbins, Clinical Herbalist, Raw Food Educator and Ethical Wildcrafter
Tiffany Johnson-Robbins will lead students and participants on a Plant Identification Walk around Haverford College Nature Trail. We will identify and learn the properties of wild edibles that are often considered invasive weeds. We will think through the ways Black people historically and presently find community with plants as sources of resilience and survival through many forms of forced and chosen migration and movement throughout North America.
Herbal Healing Arts: Lighting the Way to Freedom With Mullein
Tuesday November 2, 2021
Session 1: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. & Session 2: 1-2:30 p.m.
Haverfarm Greenhouse
Facilitator: Tiffany Robbins, Clinical Herbalist, Ethical Wildcrafter, & Raw Food Educator
Students and participants will create Mullein stalk candles and reflect on Black herbal traditions of creating household, spiritual and survival tools out of everyday materials and plants in the environment. Everyone will make and take a final herbal candle and learn the versatility of Mullein by seeing, feeling and tasting!
Space is limited; please RSVP at hav.to/herbalhealingarts. There are five available slots for each workshop; after they are filled, you will be put on a waitlist and contacted if there are any openings.
