NMHS News:

The Northern Río Grande National Heritage Area (NRGNHA) is offering a hands-on plant and local herb identification and remedy workshop 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 27 at Los Luceros Historic Site, 253 County Road 41 in Alcalde. Find directions online.

Participants will learn to identify the important parts of the plants, understand the medicinal properties the herbs have, and make remedios, or remedies, with locally foraged healing herbs.

Students will prepare salves, poultices, and tinctures. Information, materials, and local herbs will be provided.

The class is $50 per person and limited to 15 participants—only four spots left.

To register, contact Conner Tharp from NRGNHA at conner@riograndenha.org. Registration closes today, April 19.