Yerba Mansa Project

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Yerba Mansa Project

The Yerba Mansa Project is a 501(c)3 organization created by Albuquerque Herbalism Restoration ~ Education ~ Community

Our Mission:
1. Our Objectives:
1.

To educate about medicinal plants, ecological issues, and our unique local bioregion.
2. To bring the community together through common interests and goals.
3. To contribute to the restoration of medicinal plants and their habitats, especially Yerba Mansa and the Rio Grande Bosque. To identify and adopt Open Space Lands within the Rio Grande Bosque that are suitable for the Yerba Mansa Project’s

restoration work.
2. To develop and make available to the community new classes and educational events relating to Yerba Mansa, the Rio Grande Bosque, and ecological considerations for other medicinal plants.
3. To organize and undertake community volunteer projects in the Rio Grande Bosque including removal of non-native understory plants and reestablishing Yerba Mansa and other native plants in new areas of the Bosque. Find out more: yerbamansaproject.org

05/30/2026

This spring has been buzzing with life! Here are some of the beautiful plants that have been blooming this spring. We have a bee collecting from an russian olive (yellow bloom, invasive species although still food for local wildlife), currants(yellow blooms), sumac(reddish bloom), and wolfberry(white. pinkish blooms), and a bull snake.

05/28/2026

++ Solstice Medicine Plant Walk ++

Join Yerba Mansa Project Director Dara for a special event on Summer Solstice. It's our only annual fundraising event with all proceeds going to support our free community programs and services.
Details + Registration: https://yerbamansaproject.org/events/

05/22/2026

Join our Site Care Taking Crew

Help us take care of the Bosque and the plants we are putting into the ground. They need year-round care-takers and we would love to have you join our team.
Contact us: https://yerbamansaproject.org/contact-us/

05/20/2026

Globemallow booming and volunteering to pop up in the Bosque!

05/15/2026

The yerba mansa that was planted in the September Bosque Restoration Day have survived their first winter and fire🌿! They are thriving and sending out runners!

05/13/2026

FREE EVENT
Community Plant Walk with Dara Saville! See you there!

05/05/2026

Thanks to all of our Bosque Restoration Field Day volunteers! We worked to restore burn scars by removing ravenna grass from choking out willows as they begin to resurge and we re-seeded open areas.
Mark your calendars for our next Bosque Restoration Field Day on September 26.
https://yerbamansaproject.org/

05/01/2026

This Saturday!
Bosque Restoration Field Day

It's not too late to join us for this community land stewardship event.
https://yerbamansaproject.org/events/

04/21/2026

Bosque Restoration Field Day
Saturday May 2

Join us in taking care of the Bosque, our edible and medicinal plants, and their habitat. We'll be re-seeding native plants and removing invasive ravenna grass.
All are welcome.
Details + please RSVP: https://yerbamansaproject.org/events/

04/17/2026

FREE EVENT
Our first spring community plant walk is coming up!
Saturday April 25
Get the details and join us for learning about edible and medicinal plants.
Co-sponsored by City of Albuquerque Open Space
https://yerbamansaproject.org/events/

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Albuquerque, NM

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http://yerbamansaproject.org/

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