ID 410
The Medicine Garden
NOTE: This section has a Community Service Learning (CSL) component - to learn more, click here.
This course will introduce students to basic plant medicines according to local and traditional
Indigenous knowledge. Students will work with knowledge keepers from Six Nations of the Grand
River to learn how to identify plants that are local to the area and to understand their basic medicinal uses.
Harvesting, drying and making tinctures will be covered, as will protocols around traditional
Indigenous knowledge in relation to working with plant medicines. Students will be expected to fulfill
twenty community service learning hours, as there will be an experiential component involving working
on the land with the Six Nations knowledge keepers. Work from this course will also contribute to the
development of a medicine garden behind the Laurier Brantford Indigenous Student Centre.
Prerequisites: ID/SOJE120 and Registration status: year 3 or year 4.
NOTE: This section has a Community Service Learning (CSL) component - to learn more, click here.
This course will introduce students to basic plant medicines according to local and traditional
Indigenous knowledge. Students will work with knowledge keepers from Six Nations of the Grand
River to learn how to identify plants that are local to the area and to understand their basic medicinal uses.
Harvesting, drying and making tinctures will be covered, as will protocols around traditional
Indigenous knowledge in relation to working with plant medicines. Students will be expected to fulfill
twenty community service learning hours, as there will be an experiential component involving working
on the land with the Six Nations knowledge keepers. Work from this course will also contribute to the
development of a medicine garden behind the Laurier Brantford Indigenous Student Centre.
Prerequisites: ID/SOJE120 and Registration status: year 3 or year 4.
NOTE: This section has a Community Service Learning (CSL) component - to learn more, click here.
This course will introduce students to basic plant medicines according to local and traditional
Indigenous knowledge. Students will work with knowledge keepers from Six Nations of the Grand
River to learn how to identify plants that are local to the area and to understand their basic medicinal uses.
Harvesting, drying and making tinctures will be covered, as will protocols around traditional
Indigenous knowledge in relation to working with plant medicines. Students will be expected to fulfill
twenty community service learning hours, as there will be an experiential component involving working
on the land with the Six Nations knowledge keepers. Work from this course will also contribute to the
development of a medicine garden behind the Laurier Brantford Indigenous Student Centre.
Prerequisites: ID/SOJE120 and Registration status: year 3 or year 4.