Daily Archives: February 15, 2025

Wednesday, February 26, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm Eastern – Detoxing Your Home, Online

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The New York Botanic Garden is offering an online talk with Cheryl Paswater on Wednesday, February 26 at 6:30 pm. Environmental toxicity stresses our immune systems and makes us more prone to allergies. Consider what changes you can make to your home to make it a safer place for you and your loved ones-from simple but essential product swaps to certain chemicals to avoid altogether. We’ll cover dryer sheets, body products, water systems, and more.

Cheryl Paswater is a fermentationist, educator, health coach, artist, beekeeper, and writer. After a near-death experience, she turned to holistic medicine for help. Radical diet and lifestyle changes led her deepinto the study of fermentation, old world food preservation, the humanmicrobiome, food ethics, and holistic health. Cheryl runs a popular fermentation project called Contraband Ferments, contributes as a writer for Edible Brooklyn, has guest co-hosted on Heritage Food RadioNetwork’s Fuhmentaboudit!, co-organizes the NYC Fermentation Festival, and is a co-organizer of the NYC Ferments Meetup. She is currently working on her first book while teaching workshops at festivals both regionally and internationally, and lives in Brooklyn, NY, with all of her cultures as pets (a.k.a. bacteria, yeast, and mold).

$45 for NYBG members, $49 for nonmembers. Register at www.nybg.org

Sunday, February 23, 2:00 pm – Instant Ecosystems: The Miyawaki Method for Rapid Forest Growth

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Trees are one of our greatest allies in combating the effects of climate change, but is reforestation achievable in time scales that will make a difference? Register to join the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University on Sunday, February 23 at 2 pm in the Hunnewell Building Lecture Hall to explore the Miyawaki Method for ecological restoration. This innovative approach accelerates the growth of new ecosystems, transforming disturbed land into mature, stable forests in a fraction of the time. Using high density planting, the Miyawaki Method rapidly restores biodiversity and fosters the development of tall, mature forests. Biodiversity for a Livable Climate (BLC), a local organization dedicated to mitigating climate change through ecological restoration, established the first Miyawaki forest in the Northeast in Cambridge in 2021. Join Alexandra Ionescu, Associate Director of Regenerative Projects at BLC, to gain insights into this pioneering technique and her organization’s ongoing efforts to establish Miyawaki forests in the Boston area. Register at www.arboretum.harvard.edu