Join us on Mother's Day for a discussion about the health benefits of nature and a guided Indigenous plant walk through Stanley Park. Moms, dads, kids and adults of all ages welcome!

Dr. Melissa Lem is a Vancouver-based family physician and CAPE board member who writes about nature and health for local and national media and non-profit environmental organizations. A senior writer for the CBC, she was the resident medical expert on CBC TV's Steven and Chris for four seasons and continues to educate diverse audiences on air.

Kushi Opi Mani Wi / Starla Bob is West Coast Salish of the Cowichan Tribes, Snuneymuxw First Nation peoples. She studied Environmental Protection at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and is a core educator for the Stanley Park Ecology Society. Starla is eager to share the wealth of traditional, medicinal and spiritual plant-use knowledge she has learned from her elders.

Sponsored by the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment and the BC Parks Foundation.

Note: Join the BC Parks Foundation on Saturday, July 21st in BC Parks across the province as we launch the new Healthy by Nature initiative. Visit www.healthybynature.ca* to learn more.

*Website currently under development, visit us later in May!