Green Farmacy Garden Advisory Council
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As the Community Ecology Institute becomes the new stewards of the Green Farmacy Garden, we have taken the step of creating a Green Farmacy Garden Advisory Council, initially comprised of people who had personal relationships with the Dukes and/or have expertise pertinent to the GFG. At heart, the GFG Advisory Council is intended to help CEI leaders and staff build knowledge and relationships with experts, organizations, institutions, businesses, and communities devoted to ethnobotany, herbal medicine, horticultural biodiversity, botanical illustration, and other areas relevant to the property’s plants and history.
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The Council is also intended to support the transfer of critical knowledge about the garden itself—about Jim and Peggy Duke’s vision for it, and about its practical needs. We hope that the Advisory Council will help CEI identify opportunities for collaboration and partnerships that will support the long-term sustainability of the GFG and that will foster diversity and inclusion in the GFG’s networks and programming.
Thank you to the following individuals for their service on the Advisory Council:
Mark Blumenthal
Mark Blumenthal is the Founder and Executive Director of the American Botanical Council, a nonprofit research and education organization dealing with herbs, medicinal plants, phytomedicines, beneficial fungi, and related natural products. He is the Editor-in-Chief of HerbalGram, ABC's peer-reviewed journal, and is the Founder of the ABC-AHP-NCNPR Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program, an international consortium of nonprofit and industry parties that researches and educates on adulteration and fraud of botanical ingredients in the global marketplace. Mark has over 50 years’ experience studying herbs and medicinal plants, and is passionate about promoting science-based, plant-centered natural health modalities.
Bevin Clare
Bevin Clare is an herbalist, nutritionist, homeschooling parent, a professor at the Maryland University of Integrative Health and the program director of the MUIH MS in Clinical Herbal Medicine program. She spent many beautiful days at the Green Farmacy Garden and is eager to see it blossom into its next phase. Bevin is the author of Spice Apothecary and a former President of the American Herbalists Guild.
Edwin Gould
I spent most of my life studying animal behavior and ecology in the field. Retired from the Smithsonian Institution in 1996, I am now a potter; I enjoy sharing my knowledge of nature with children. I am a collaborator with CEI on their educational programming and have also known the Dukes for many years. As a fun note, all of the ferns at my home came from the Green Farmacy Garden and when CEI purchased Freetown Farm I brought many ferns over to that property for their wooded stream areas. It is a fun full circle.
Celia Duke Larsen
As Jim and Peggy Duke's daughter, Celia Duke Larsen was lucky to grow up mucking about in the mica-tinged streams found on the Green Farmacy Garden property. She raised rabbits and goats and tended horses, ponies, chickens, cats, strawberries and basil there before the Green Farmacy Garden came into formal existence. Celia is a native plant enthusiast and she taught gardening and outdoor education at the Rudolf Steiner School of Ann Arbor for twelve years. She has an M.S. in Biology from the University of Michigan and a B.S. in biology from Wake Forest University. She enjoys curating the book sale for The Stewardship Network's annual conference and she looks forward to working with the Community Ecology Institute.
Joan Lok
Joan is an artist and was a longtime friend of Dr. Jim and Peggy Duke. As did Peggy, Joan has a keen interest in capturing the beauty of flowers and plants in sumi-e brushwork. A past president of the Sumi-e Society of America, Joan teaches art workshops across the country and online. www.joanlok.com
Helen Lowe Metzman
Helen was the Director of the Green Farmacy Garden for over 15 years and intimately cares about maintaining the legacy of Jim and Peggy Duke's property and botanical treasure. Her passion for conservation, ethnobotany, herbal wisdom, environmental education and art has been a guiding force directing her life's work. She is a graduate of the University of Vermont in Environmental Education and holds a Master of Science in Herbal Medicine from Tai Sophia - now Maryland University of Integrative Health. Helen lives up the road from the Green Farmacy Garden in Clarksville, Maryland and continues to tend the land with her husband Eric and cat Ziggy.
Andrea Ottesen
Dr. Andrea Ottesen worked with mentor Dr. Jim Duke studying temperate and tropical medicinal plants in Peru and Maryland since 1994. Currently, she leads metagenomic research as a principal investigator at the Center for Veterinary Medicine of FDA. She continues to lead the Medicinal Plants of the Peruvian Amazon class that she and Jim taught since 2009 as Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Maryland.
David Weeks
David Weeks is Director of Global Education, Internships and Community Service at the Glenelg Country School. As founder and director of the Maryland Youth Partners in Change, he has cultivated environmental stewardship in middle school students by their learning about and advocating for Baltimore City's Healthy Harbor Initiative to the Mayor and City Council members. Mr. Weeks was recognized by the Community Action Council with its Holland Humanitarian Award in 2011 for collaborating with CAC in the establishment of the Howard County Food Bank Garden. He has also experienced a Peruvian ethno-botanist adventure with Jim Duke and works with Master Gardeners at Whipps Garden Cemetery.
Thank you to the following individuals for their service on the Advisory Council:
Mark Blumenthal
Mark Blumenthal is the Founder and Executive Director of the American Botanical Council, a nonprofit research and education organization dealing with herbs, medicinal plants, phytomedicines, beneficial fungi, and related natural products. He is the Editor-in-Chief of HerbalGram, ABC's peer-reviewed journal, and is the Founder of the ABC-AHP-NCNPR Botanical Adulterants Prevention Program, an international consortium of nonprofit and industry parties that researches and educates on adulteration and fraud of botanical ingredients in the global marketplace. Mark has over 50 years’ experience studying herbs and medicinal plants, and is passionate about promoting science-based, plant-centered natural health modalities.
Bevin Clare
Bevin Clare is an herbalist, nutritionist, homeschooling parent, a professor at the Maryland University of Integrative Health and the program director of the MUIH MS in Clinical Herbal Medicine program. She spent many beautiful days at the Green Farmacy Garden and is eager to see it blossom into its next phase. Bevin is the author of Spice Apothecary and a former President of the American Herbalists Guild.
Edwin Gould
I spent most of my life studying animal behavior and ecology in the field. Retired from the Smithsonian Institution in 1996, I am now a potter; I enjoy sharing my knowledge of nature with children. I am a collaborator with CEI on their educational programming and have also known the Dukes for many years. As a fun note, all of the ferns at my home came from the Green Farmacy Garden and when CEI purchased Freetown Farm I brought many ferns over to that property for their wooded stream areas. It is a fun full circle.
Celia Duke Larsen
As Jim and Peggy Duke's daughter, Celia Duke Larsen was lucky to grow up mucking about in the mica-tinged streams found on the Green Farmacy Garden property. She raised rabbits and goats and tended horses, ponies, chickens, cats, strawberries and basil there before the Green Farmacy Garden came into formal existence. Celia is a native plant enthusiast and she taught gardening and outdoor education at the Rudolf Steiner School of Ann Arbor for twelve years. She has an M.S. in Biology from the University of Michigan and a B.S. in biology from Wake Forest University. She enjoys curating the book sale for The Stewardship Network's annual conference and she looks forward to working with the Community Ecology Institute.
Joan Lok
Joan is an artist and was a longtime friend of Dr. Jim and Peggy Duke. As did Peggy, Joan has a keen interest in capturing the beauty of flowers and plants in sumi-e brushwork. A past president of the Sumi-e Society of America, Joan teaches art workshops across the country and online. www.joanlok.com
Helen Lowe Metzman
Helen was the Director of the Green Farmacy Garden for over 15 years and intimately cares about maintaining the legacy of Jim and Peggy Duke's property and botanical treasure. Her passion for conservation, ethnobotany, herbal wisdom, environmental education and art has been a guiding force directing her life's work. She is a graduate of the University of Vermont in Environmental Education and holds a Master of Science in Herbal Medicine from Tai Sophia - now Maryland University of Integrative Health. Helen lives up the road from the Green Farmacy Garden in Clarksville, Maryland and continues to tend the land with her husband Eric and cat Ziggy.
Andrea Ottesen
Dr. Andrea Ottesen worked with mentor Dr. Jim Duke studying temperate and tropical medicinal plants in Peru and Maryland since 1994. Currently, she leads metagenomic research as a principal investigator at the Center for Veterinary Medicine of FDA. She continues to lead the Medicinal Plants of the Peruvian Amazon class that she and Jim taught since 2009 as Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Maryland.
David Weeks
David Weeks is Director of Global Education, Internships and Community Service at the Glenelg Country School. As founder and director of the Maryland Youth Partners in Change, he has cultivated environmental stewardship in middle school students by their learning about and advocating for Baltimore City's Healthy Harbor Initiative to the Mayor and City Council members. Mr. Weeks was recognized by the Community Action Council with its Holland Humanitarian Award in 2011 for collaborating with CAC in the establishment of the Howard County Food Bank Garden. He has also experienced a Peruvian ethno-botanist adventure with Jim Duke and works with Master Gardeners at Whipps Garden Cemetery.
