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Understanding Local Plants: Nutritional Value, Sustainability, and Medicinal Properties

This summary discusses key learnings about local plant species, highlighting the edible and medicinal potentials of Camas flowers, elderberries, and stinging nettles, as well as sustainable practices such as huckleberry pruning. It also addresses ecological issues like deforestation, declining wetland areas, and the impact of climate change on local ecosystems. Additionally, the significance of old-growth forests, the relationship between local plant life and aquatic environments, and the historical context of the Qualicum population offers insights into the connectivity of nature, culture, and heritage.

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Understanding Local Plants: Nutritional Value, Sustainability, and Medicinal Properties

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  1. Carrie Reid Summary of what you guys learned…

  2. Plants… • Camas flowers … don’t eat the bulbs with white flowers, but purple is tasty! • Eat elder berries, get “the royal trots” • Huckleberry pruning is sustainable • Certain plant species have medicinal properties (dandelions petals arehigh in zinc, milk can treat warts, stinging nettles) • Many medicinal plants are aquatic

  3. Stinging Nettles

  4. Old growth cedar – deforestation/logging • Less large trees  less shade  less wetlands  (1/3 of us live on filled in wetlands) • Changing climate - rainfall, changing ecosystems • Not all old growth forests are HUGE trees … why? • Strong – because it grows more slowly in shade • Bark is useful • Boiling water in canoes to stretch them

  5. Lakes are shrinking • The population of Qualicum was the same 200 years ago… smallpox  • Deep Baysank between 2.7 m (9 ft) and 25.6 m (84 ft).Canadian Hydrographic Service • Herring spawn every spring, collect eggs using branches • Skunk cabbage can be used to dye wool • Burial sites – we live on the blood and bones of their ancestors

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