Food as Medicine with Jennifer Nelson
Jennifer Nelson’s career has focused in two areas: interior design and environmental preservation. As an artist and interior designer, she founded several firms dedicated to home and commercial design.
Her environmental interests have largely focused on medicinal plants and their preservation in the native landscape.
Jennifer will be leading a discussion and brief hands-on workshop on the topic of Food/Medicine and Self Reliance.
Jennifer holds a BA from Macalester College and studied entrepreneurship at the University of St. Thomas, both in St. Paul Minnesota. She has held teaching positions in curriculum development and program implementation involving Kindergarten-Adult groups.
Since retiring from her professional career she has pursued her interest in plant medicine and has attended many classes by both native healers and professional herbalists.
She has served as a volunteer and board member for local and international environmental organizations. As a social entrepreneur addressing interests in the global environment, Jennifer attended the 2004 Skoll Foundation Forum for such activists held at the Said Business School in Oxford, England. She is currently serving as Chair of the Board of the Crawford Stewardship Project, an activist organization dedicated to checking the proliferation of factory farms and promoting more sustainable types of agriculture in her area.
Jennifer lives on a wooded farm adjacent to the Hogback State Natural Area on the Kickapoo River in Crawford County Wisconsin. For the past 15 years she and her husband have worked to restore the farm and preserve remnants of native landscape. In addition they continue a lifelong practice of growing food/medicine for their three married children and four grandchildren who live in the Twin Cities.
