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WINTHROP — The Kennebec Land Trust has announced the dates and speakers for an abbreviated lunchtime 2021 Lyceum Program, its annual conservation lecture series.
This year’s series will be presented in Zoom format, with the topic “An Introduction to Maine Medicinal Plants: Cultural Uses, Ecology, & Botany,” and can be found at www.tklt.org/lyceum.
All programs are free and open to the public and are being held on Zoom. Email Marie at mring@tklt.org for the Zoom meeting information.
The March lecture series is modeled after the early New England lyceums that began in 1826 in Massachusetts. For many years New England lyceums hosted lectures, debates, and concerts for public audiences. The trust’s annual Lyceum is supported by Gloria and Lincoln Ladd. This year’s series is sponsored by The Josselyn Botanical Society.
Programs are:
“Introduction to Past, Present, and Future: Cultural Uses of Native Plants in Maine,” by Jennifer Neptune_,_ artist, anthropologist, educator, and member of the Penobscot Nation, noon-12:30 p.m. Thursday, March 18. Neptune, will introduce relationship, respect, and reciprocity with plants and the natural world; food and medicine, beyond corn and tobacco; and benevolence and beauty of the trees: ash, birch, cedar, and maple.
“Introduction to Botany of Medicinal Plants,” Eric Doucette, assistant professor of Biology, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, noon to 12:30 p.m. Thursday, March 25. Doucette will introduce the correct identification of medicinal plants; non-toxic or non-medicinal look-alikes; and conserving rare species while collecting medicinals.
The full “Maine Medicinal Plants: Cultural Uses, Ecology, & Botany” program is scheduled to take place in-person in spring 2022 and will feature Neptune, Doucette and herbalist and founder of Avena Botanicals, Deb Soule. There will also be an additional summer field program.
