Valerie Segrest
Valerie Segrest
(Muckleshoot) is a nutrition educator who specializes in local and traditional foods. She is regional director for Native Food and Knowledge Systems for the Native American Agriculture Fund.
Valerie Segrest
From The Current Issue
Following a lunar-inspired menu means eating seasonal and hyperlocal ingredients.
A cup of Nettle tea can help fortify blood, build bones, increase energy levels, improve circulation, and decrease inflammation and oxidative stress in the body.
Both Western and traditional medicine agree, cranberries are more than just tart and tasty.
What better time than now, when
we’re slowed down and trying to ward off contagions, to look to traditional medicines to fortify our immunity?
I am a Muckleshoot Indian, but little of what I used to eat bore much connection with the landscape I lived in, which had fed my ancestors for many generations. When I discovered nettle tea, it was as if I were remembering what it was like to feel well.