Roots & Remedies: An Exploration into Plant Medicine

Date: July 12th, 2025

Time: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM CT
Location: Kansas City (full address available after you RSVP)

Join The Resilient Activist community and Luke Welsh for a native garden tour, discussion on local medicinal plants, community connection, and a chance to take some promising seedlings home!

While walking through the garden, Luke will share the physical and emotional benefits of utilizing the medicinal plants we find that are currently in season. Once you leave the event with a seedling or two of your own, you'll come away with an enhanced understanding and appreciation of what these native plants can offer.

The event location will be available once you RSVP.

The Importance of Native Plants

Native gardening can be a powerful form of self-care and activism. One of the best ways to support wildlife is to plant natives, because insects and birds have evolved alongside the plants they rely on. Without specific plants, we wouldn't have specific insects. When we provide a healthy environment for insects to thrive, birds and pollinators get to eat, birds and pollinators pollinate, and humans are able to eat and be nourished!

Along with supporting ecosystem balance, the process of native gardening and connecting with the soil can lower our blood pressure, calm our mind, and nourish us on a deeper level.

Why Nature-Connection is Important 🍄‍🟫

We *are* nature but our culture and lifestyle can separate from our connection with our environment. Re-establishing our sense of awareness and belonging in nature by breaking down barriers and spending more time outdoors helps each of us in different ways. It can reduce anxiety and depression, improve physical health, inspire creativity, improve clarity of thought, facilitate problem-solving, and help us gain perspective.

In a society where loneliness is an epidemic, rediscovering our sense of belonging within nature can help us feel a little less adrift and provide comfort when relationships with others fall short.

The Resilient Activist Leader

This event is led by Anna Graether, a board member of The Resilient Activist, a Johnson County Master Naturalist, and a Deep Roots Nature Advisor. Her focus is on impacting climate change through speaking about, writing about and planting more native plants at home, in her neighborhood and in her city.

Contact TRA Board Member Anna Graether at anna@theresilientactivist.org with questions.

To learn more about how you can start your own native garden, read Anna's informative blog post: "From Lawn to Wildlife Habitat: Conservation Starts in Your Own Backyard."

Photo Credits: Anna Graether & Sarah Mayerhofer