Wildcraft workshop - sept 21-24 with Michael pilarski
Growing Herbs for Farmers and Herb Gardiners.
Growing Herbs for Farmers and Herb Gardiners.
Growing Herbs for Farmers and Herb Gardiners.
Things to think about:
- Design Fertilizers and biological amendments
- planting propagation
- Choosing crops: Productions considerations for crop types: Mediterranean sub-shrubs, Perennial herbs with aerial harvest
- Hugelkutur explained
- Rhizomatous bed crops
- Shade understory
- Biennual crops
- 4-year root crops
- Fragrance Pollinators
- Irrigation
- Sequencing
- Mu
Things to think about:
- Design Fertilizers and biological amendments
- planting propagation
- Choosing crops: Productions considerations for crop types: Mediterranean sub-shrubs, Perennial herbs with aerial harvest
- Hugelkutur explained
- Rhizomatous bed crops
- Shade understory
- Biennual crops
- 4-year root crops
- Fragrance Pollinators
- Irrigation
- Sequencing
- Multi- year planning
- Harvesting
- processing
- drying
- marketing.
Hands-on activities choices:
- sheet mulching
- root division
- tool show & tell
- harvesting
- harvesting twigs & bark.
Medicinal Forests in Every Locality
Growing Herbs for Farmers and Herb Gardiners.
Growing Herbs for Farmers and Herb Gardiners.
Any place on earth has the environment to grow most needed medicines; Climates include: cold temperate, warm temperate, Mediterranean, subtropical & Tropical Arid, semi-arid, moist and wet.
Things to think about:
- Ecology
- Multi-level canopy
- Spacing
- Light
- Understory
- Succession
- Coppicing - Steps 1, 2, 3 etc.
- How to obtain yields every year from year
- Crops matched to local needs first, then regional,
Wildcrafting Walk to the Sandy River
Growing Herbs for Farmers and Herb Gardiners.
Wildcrafting Walk to the Sandy River
This is a strenuous, two mile walk, down & up two steep hills. The journey will take you through the farmland and into a Pristine Douglas Fir Forest ending on the shore of the Sandy River.
- You will be offered several water and rest breaks
- A sack lunch can be purchased.
- Please have water and a hiking backpack.
- We will offer an alternate w
This is a strenuous, two mile walk, down & up two steep hills. The journey will take you through the farmland and into a Pristine Douglas Fir Forest ending on the shore of the Sandy River.
- You will be offered several water and rest breaks
- A sack lunch can be purchased.
- Please have water and a hiking backpack.
- We will offer an alternate wildcrafting experience that does not require the hike.
- As we journey, you will make a species list of all the plants we find during our walk-abouts on the farm, forest and along Sandy River.
- This list will include native and invasive species.
- Michael will introduce his favorite harvesting tools and demonstrate harvesting techniques.
- There will be a traveling library of noteworthy books.
Techniques:
- Sustainable wildcrafting – take what you need.
- Protected species identification – the Trillium is Oregon’s State Flower – it is a protected plant.
- Steel bar technique for taproots, bark stripping
- Processing techniques
- Drying herbs.