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Students in Morales’ ethnobotany class track plants’ growth by documenting greenhouse environmental conditions, sunrise and sunset times, moon phases, and other observations. — Photos: TNS

Cheryl Morales started the medicinal garden at the Aaniiih NakNda College demonstration farm with only four plants: yarrow, echinacea, plantain and liquorice root.

After 10 years, the campus garden within the Fort Belknap reservation in northern Montana, United States, now holds more than 60 species that take up almost 30,000 square feet.

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