Grow Native! Master Class: Growing Native Edibles for Food Production with Nadia Navarrete-Tindall

In this masterclass, Nadia Navarrete-Tindall will share information about native edibles that can be easily grown for production including wild plums, arrowhead tubers, persimmons and others. She will focus on establishment, maintenance, production, and recipes.

The master class, to be held via Zoom, will include 50 minutes of instruction with at least 10 minutes for a question and answer period via chat. A recording of the webinar will be available only to those that registered.

Cost: free to all MPF dues-paying members and Grow Native! professional members, or $15 for non-members.
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Dr. Nadia Navarrete-Tindall owns the consulting business Native Plants & More, and is also the Specialty Crops & Native Plant Specialist for Lincoln University in Jefferson City. In her work at Lincoln University, Nadia created the Native Plants Program, created the Community Garden, Farmers Market and Commercial Kitchen, and the FINCA project: Families Integrating Nature, Conservation and Agriculture. She has more than twenty years of experience as a specialist in diverse specialty crops, with the main emphasis on native plants in both Missouri and her native El Salvador. She recently launched the Native Plants Academy in collaboration with the Missouri Prairie Foundation, to provide education to underserved individuals on various topics related to native plants including career opportunities. She offers workshops in Spanish and English. In 2008, she received Missouri’s highest conservation honor as she was inducted into the Conservation Hall of Fame as a Master Conservationist.

Photo of persimmons by Allen Hall.