Leigh Joseph is an ethnobotanist, researcher, and community activist whose aim is to contribute to cultural knowledge renewal in connection to Indigenous plant foods and medicines. As part of this mission, she founded Sḵwálwen Botanicals, an Indigenous business creating small-batch botanical skincare products based in British Columbia, Canada. Honoring traditional Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) plant knowledge, they incorporate wild-harvested plants and organic, high-quality ingredients. Leigh shares her Indigenous plant knowledge in written form in her book Held by the Land. She is a member of the Squamish Nation.

CONTENTS
CHAPTER 1: Building Botanical Relationships
CHAPTER 2: Teachings from Plants
CHAPTER 3: Identifying Plants to Build Your Home Apothecary
CHAPTER 4: The Mindful Harvest
CHAPTER 5: Botanical or Land-Based Mindfulness Practices
INTRODUCTION
Reflections on Indigenous Plant Knowledge
& Building Relationships
Plant Profiles & Recipes
TREES
Amabilis Fir
Bigleaf Maple
Black Poplar
or Cottonwood
Grand Fir
Pacific Crab Apple
Spruce
Western Hemlock
Western Red Cedar
SHRUBS
Beaked Hazelnut
Blackcap
Blueberry
Bog Cranberry
Devil’s Club
Highbush Cranberry
Labrador Tea
Ocean Spray
Red Elderberry and
Blue Elderberry
Red Huckleberry
Red-Flowering
Currant
Salal
Salmonberry
Saskatoon Berry
Soapberry
Tall Oregon Grape
Thimbleberry
Trailing Blackberry
Wild Rose
FLOWERING HERBS
Bare-Stem Desert
Parsley or Biscuitroot
Broad-Leaved Plantain
Camas
Cattail
Cow Parsnip
Fireweed
Nodding Onion
Northern Rice Root
Stinging Nettle
Wapato
Wild Ginger
Wild Strawberry
Yarrow
FERNS, HORSETAILS,
LICHENS & SEAWEEDS
Beard Lichen
Common Horsetail
Licorice Fern
Red Laver
CONCLUSION
Botanical Glossary
Appendix
References
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Recipe
Contributors
Index