Earth Fest 2026: Indigenous Nature Walk with LoriAnn Bird

The Everett Crowley Park Committee is excited to be joined again by LoriAnn Bird nature walks as part of Earth Fest 2026! Walks will be approximatey 15 minutes long and take place at the following times from the Earth Fest site:

• 12pm
• 12:30pm
• 1pm
• 1:30pm

Please follow signs from Kerr Street Parking lot or Champlain Heights Community Centre to 'Earth Fest' to reach the meeting point.

LoriAnn Bird (Snyder) is a Metis author, herbalist and educator, with a deep knowledge of medicinal & edible plants that grow in the most common and everyday spaces. Witnessing and listening to our immediate surroundings, we experience the relationship with all that exists. The offerings from the Rooted Nations who give of their life, with sustenance, teachings, and guidance, gifting us and so many diverse relatives (species) who live with us. In a time when our connection to the land on which we live grows ever more tenuous, LoriAnn offers us an opportunity to reconnect & reclaim our own history.
Remembering the wisdom of ancestral relatives who, for thousands of years, were nourished by lands & waters and cared deeply for its gifts for future generations. Let's be good ancestors.

Join us to learn from Lori's extensive knowledge of plants and wildlife and their uses throughout time. Lori will share her knowledge of indigenous uses of plants and teach us how to appreciate the ecosystem around us.

LoriAnn also shares her knowledge through writing in her new book Revered Roots, Ancient wisdom and teachings of wild, native and medicinal Plants!

The Everett Crowley Park Committee humbly acknowledges that we work and live on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Peoples.