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Many Native people have lost the foods that once nourished their communities. Hope Flanagan is teaching people how to find them again, plant by plant—starting in a park near the airport.

Avatar photo by Sheila Mulrooney Eldred

Flowers, buds, needles, roots. On a foraging trip through Crosby Farm Regional Park, in St. Paul, Hope Flanagan forages for native plants that are good for healing (and snacking). But the classes she offers through the nonprofit Dream of Wild Health have a bigger goal: reconnecting Indigenous people to the healthy food systems that once sustained them.

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