# Event Details

- **Event Name**: "Louisiana Healing Garden" — Book Launch
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 02 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm (+00:00)
- **Event Description**: “What some folks call a W**d, the author sees as a gift, full of purpose, history, and healing. In "Louisiana Healing Garden," Corinne Martin teaches about the many benefits of the plants around us. But she doesn’t just teach about the herbs; she gives them character, story, and soul. You’ll never look at the green world around you in the same way.” —Bayli Quick Brossette

Stay put, and we'll bring our writers to you!
 
Please join us Thursday, April 2 at 2 p.m. CT (3pm ET) for a Facebook Live discussion and Q&A featuring Corinne Martin and her new LSU Press book, "Louisiana Healing Garden:
Medicinal Plants for a Sustainable Future."

Live video feed of this event will appear in this discussion thread (see tab above) on Thursday, April 2 at 2 p.m. CT. If you select "going," you will get a notification once the video has started. The presentation will take place from 2—2:30pm, followed by a 10-minute Q&A.
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Order copies of "Louisiana Healing Garden: Medicinal Plants for a Sustainable Future" here: https://bit.ly/lahealinggarden
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"Louisiana Healing Garden" offers a guide to the medicinal properties of everyday plants such as crape myrtle, gardenia, and sweet olive, encouraging readers to learn about these plants and their uses while maintaining a healthy ecological balance in their home spaces.

In this follow-up to "Louisiana Herb Journal," herbalist Corinne Martin continues her exploration of Louisiana’s plants and their capacity to provide healing in a time of unprecedented change and uncertainty. "Louisiana Healing Garden" is an herb book, a garden guide, and an introduction to the web of wild lives that make up our home state. Featuring fifty medicinal herbs, the book invites readers to participate in what Catholic priest and ecologist Thomas Berry called “the Great Work” of finding ways to live that benefit both humans and the places we inhabit.

As the state struggles with increasingly severe storms, land subsidence, rising waters, saltwater intrusion, and the loss of iconic trees, Martin suggests that the recognition and careful use of medicinal plants may help to stabilize at-risk species and areas, reduce the use of toxic applications on aggressive weeds, and support everyday health. Throughout the book, she offers personal reflections on her experiences of finding the herbs and poignant commentaries on some of the gifts and challenges of living in Louisiana.

Each herb listing includes plant identification features, habitat, distribution, medicinal properties, risks, and preparation methods. Martin also shares cultivation tips to aid home gardeners who are introducing healing plants into their landscapes. As she notes, this is not just an herb book. It’s an invitation into a place that is complex, wide, shifting, old, and ever new. With "Louisiana Healing Garden" as a guide, we can awaken to the many small gifts that surround us, shore up our health, and help to support positive changes in the places we call home.
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Corinne Martin is a clinical herbalist and amateur naturalist who has worked with medicinal plants for more than forty years. A retired instructor of holistic and integrative health, she has a passionate love for nature and for the lush and threatened environment of her home ground of Louisiana. She is the author of "Louisiana Herb Journal" (LSU Press, 2022).
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The LSU Press Facebook Live Author Series brings the talented writers of LSU Press to your home. On Wednesdays and Thursdays at 2 p.m. CDT on our Facebook page, we will broadcast a different LSU Press writer reading from their book and talking about their inspiration and craft. Post on the event page, or tweet @lsupress, with questions for your favorite LSU Press author.
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See recordings of previous readings in this series on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/LSUPress/videos.
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Gardere, Louisiana
- **location**: Online event
- **full address**: Online event, 10240 Burbank Dr, Baton Rouge, LA 70810-6436, United States, Gardere, Louisiana

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 02 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm (+00:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Online event, 10240 Burbank Dr, Baton Rouge, LA 70810-6436, United States, Gardere, Louisiana
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  - **A:** LSU Press
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
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