Walk the marsh and learn about the native medicinal plants surrounding Halsey Creek and the Ashley River that can support you and your emergence into parenthood with herbalist, doula, and midwife apprentice Clare Parks, Ed.D. Leave with a list of native plants, their medicinal properties, and how to get started growing them at home.

How can the plants around you support you over the threshold into parenthood? Getting to know the names, benefits, and the medicine of the plants around us can support us in pregnancy and postpartum in a number of ways— this doesn’t always have to look like drinking herbal tea (but it can)! It can also look like:

• Using gardening as an opportunity to get into a meditative state and nurture the life of other beings during pregnancy; getting your hands in the dirt for sensory + nervous system support postpartum

• Channeling anxiety about the climate and the changing world around us into hope and tangible action through planting pollinators and enhancing biodiversity for your children and your children’s children

• Learning the historical use of medicinal plants in the area through a lens of reverence and reciprocity for the plants and the people who take and have taken the time to steward them, especially those who have done so in the face of oppressive forces

• Engaging with the natural world and the changing of the seasons as a North Star for your parenting style

It’s free! Spots are limited. Sign up by pressing the button below and take it all the way to check out. Notify us ASAP if you can’t make it. Dress warm! I’ll bring blankets and tea.

Visit www.themarshproject.com and www.scnps.org to learn more and get involved.