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SUMMARY:Botanica: Gardens\, Landscapes\, and Plant Medicines in South Louisiana
DESCRIPTION:Cabildo/Louisiana State Museum. Until Sunday May 10\, 2026 \nThis exhibition explores the cultural meaning of Louisiana medicinal plants and how historically based understandings of them are evolving under the threat of climate change and land loss. Guest curators Rachel Breunlin and Monique Verdin collaborate with herbalists\, artists\, gardeners\, and scholars to place into context stories of historical and contemporary gardens and natural environments. \nBotanica is rooted in a series of interviews conducted by Rachel Breunlin and Monique Verdin as part of the Bayou Culture Collaborative\, which operates under the auspices of the Louisiana Division of the Arts Folklife Program and the Louisiana Folklore Society. The Collaborative seeks to document cultural traditions as Louisiana faces land loss and a changing environment. As part of that project\, Breunlin and Verdin interviewed a range of gardeners and plant specialists\, including Tammy Greer\, a United Houma Nation medicine wheel steward; mutual aid medicine makers from the Bvlbancha Collective; and Maypop Herb Shop folk herbalist Rachael Reeves. Through these interviews\, excerpted at listening stations\, along with historic and contemporary artifacts\, photographs\, and paintings from the Louisiana State Museum’s collection as well as from a few private lenders\, the exhibition explores the history and understanding of medicinal plants\, such as yaupon\, Auricularia (jelly ear) mushrooms\, and cleavers\, in a range of rural and urban communities that draw on different cultural traditions\, including those of Native peoples\, Louisiana French cultures\, and African Americans. Botanica weaves together these strands to immerse museum visitors in a world of Louisiana plants\, traditional healing cultures\, and the people\, past and present\, who make up those cultures. \nThis exhibition will be open at the Cabildo until May 10\, 2026.
URL:https://npi-gno.org/event/botanica-gardens-landscapes-and-plant-medicines-in-south-louisiana/
LOCATION:Cabildo/Louisiana State Museum\, The Cabildo\, 701 Chartres St\, New Orleans\, LA 70130\, New Orleans\, Louisiana
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SUMMARY:Every Friday: Big Lake Native Plant Trail Restoration Project
DESCRIPTION:Put your gardening skills to work (and learn some new ones) on Fridays 8:00-10:00 a.m. at the Big Lake Native Plant Trail in New Orleans City Park (the trail is near the boat and bike rental on Friedrichs Avenue). Pull weeds\, prune\, plant\, and work with some of the most knowledgeable gardeners around. City Park provides tools\, clean gloves\, water\, and insect repellent or you can bring your own. Pick a Friday (or two? or more?) and sign up at the City Park Conservancy Volunteer Calendar of Events webpage. If you have questions\, email team leaders Susan Norris-Davis or Jennifer Prout.
URL:https://npi-gno.org/event/every-friday-big-lake-native-plant-trail-restoration-project/
LOCATION:Big Lake\, City Park\,  7 Freiderichs Ave
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SUMMARY:Pull & Prune 6:00-8:00 p.m. at Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center
DESCRIPTION:Pull & Prune  at Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center (4300 South Broad in New Orleans). The garden features a bioswale with native plants and trees that reduces stormwater runoff\, brightens the neighborhood with year-round blooms and pollinators\, and showcases the teamwork of NPI\, the New Orleans Public Library system\, the Master Gardeners of Greater New Orleans\, and the New Orleans Department of Parks and Parkways.
URL:https://npi-gno.org/event/pull-prune-500-700-p-m-at-rosa-f-keller-library-and-community-center/
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SUMMARY:SEED PACKING & DOCUMENTARY SCREENING AT THE MATERIAL INSTITUTE
DESCRIPTION:SEED PACKING & DOCUMENTARY SCREENING AT THE MATERIAL INSTITUTE\, 2120 PORT STREET\, NEW ORLEANS – The Material Institute is a nonprofit center that focuses on learning and collaboration from art to music to gardening. The institute will host NPI in a cool and comfy indoor space to break down seed heads\, pack giveaway seeds into envelopes\, put info stickers on the envelopes\, and enjoy “Native Seeds: Supplying Restoration\,” a documentary about the native seed supply chain in the western United States. No sign-up required. Meet at the community garden across the street from the Material Institute; seed packing and documentary screening will be inside the institute (see photos above; institute entrance is the door on the right with the red outline in the photo).
URL:https://npi-gno.org/event/seed-packing-documentary-screening-at-the-material-institute/
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