Earth Week: Dinner with herbalist Deb Soule ’81

Join Deb Soule ’81 in Take-a-Break dining hall to share dinner and conversation about her project, the Herbal Hummingbird Hub, ahead of her public talk in CHE-202.

Deb Soule ’81 is an herbalist, biodynamic gardener, and author of Healing Herbs for Women (Skyhorse Publishing, 1995), How to Move Like A Gardener (Steiner Books, 2013), and The Healing Garden (Princeton Architectural Press, 2021). Her most recent book, Notes from the Hummingbird Corridor, is a collaboration with Brown-Lavoie that weaves together poetry, prose and detailed information on planting for pollinators, especially the ruby-throated hummingbird. Soule founded Avena Botanicals Herbal Apothecary in 1985, and has tended over two acres of medicinal herbs on the same farm since 1995 in West Rockport, Maine. She is also the founder of the Herbal Hummingbird Hub, a nonprofit learning center whose mission is to serve people, plants, and pollinators by tending herb gardens, sharing herbal medicines, and stewarding racial, ecological and ancestral healing circles.