Yerba Mansa Project
The purpose of Yerba Mansa Project is to educate about medicinal plants, ecological issues, and our unique local bioregion of the Middle Rio Grande. Our goal is to bring the community together through common interests and goals and to contribute to the restoration of medicinal plants and their habitats, especially Yerba Mansa and the Rio Grande Bosque.
Primary Programs: We partner with the City of Albuquerque Open Space Division and offer Community Volunteer Restoration Field Days in the Bosque twice a year. Participation on those days is free and open to all members of the community. This effort offers community members a chance to actively participate in taking care of our shared public lands in the Bosque by removing invasive species and planting native and medicinal species such as Yerba Mansa. For our Education program, we engage school and youth groups in researching local plants and contributing their research to our Plants of the Middle Rio Grande online field guide. By participating in this program, students are contributing to an educational resource that can be accessed for free by the entire community.
2014
Dara Saville