Top two images: Great Valley Museum; Bottom three images: Denise Godbout-Avant.

Join us to learn how the original people of California used native plants in their everyday lives!

The Indigenous people of California lived here for thousands of years, during which time they made the most of what California’s various habitats offered them. In the Great Central Valley, they lived in small villages and moved according to the cycles of the seasons and years. They gathered, hunted, and fished the plants and animals of their world, using them in myriad ways. Learn about some of the native plants utilized by the Valley indigenous people, and how they used them in a sustainable manner, which included plant management and using controlled burns.

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