GROWING & WILDCRAFTING MEDICINAL PLANTS
Spirit in the Sky is excited to be hosting Michael Pilarski for 3 days of educational workshops!
Location: Sandy, Oregon
April 12, 13, 14, 2024
+ informal evening activities Fri & Sat
3 Days of Workshops, come to 1, 2 or all 3!
- Growing Medicinal Herbs - Garden & Farm
Friday, April 12th 9am-5pm
- Creating Medicinal Forests
Saturday, April 13th 9am-5pm
- Wildcrafting Medicinal Plants
Sunday, April 14th 9am-5pm
Workshop Prices:
All 3 workshops: $250
2 Workshops: $175
Single day: $100
Lodging Available On-site:
$80 Room - for 1-2 people
$20 Camping
$48 Tipi (weather permitting)
Rates are per person, per night. Includes kitchen & showers.
Call to schedule accommodations- Kathryn # 503.956.2227
Meals:
Dinners will be available for $20/meal. There is a kitchen on site for people to make their own breakfasts or lunches. Some of us will collaborate on group meals. People commuting can bring a pre-made lunch.
About the instructor:
Michael Pilarski has been organically farming and gardening since 1972; with medicinal herbs being his main crops for the last 25 years. Through the years, he has worked with over 1,000 species of plants. He has taught extensively in the fields of organic farming, permaculture, medicinal herbs, native plants, plant propagation, ethnobotany, forestry, agroforestry and related disciplines.
Michael has been wildcrafting medicinals across northern Washington for the past 25 years. He is the founder of the Northwest Herbal Fair, the Montana Herb Gathering and the Herb Growing & Marketing Conference.
His publications include:
* Growing and Wildcrafting Medicinal Plants in the Pacific Northwest,
* Subtropical and Tropical Medicinal Plants Checklist. 2001
* Agroforestry Guide for the Hawaiian Islands
* Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Resource Guide
Click the button below to learn more about him and Friends of the Trees Botanicals-
This event is hosted by Kathryn Rosson of Spirit in the Sky Growers Group, the original Eclectic Herb Farm. The Farm has been using sustainable cultivated for over 30 years. Acreage is leased to several farmers.
About the workshops...
Day 1 - Growing Medicinal Herbs - Garden & Farm
Day 1 - Growing Medicinal Herbs - Garden & Farm
Day 1 - Growing Medicinal Herbs - Garden & Farm
- We will tour on-site herb plantings. Learn about hands-on plant division. Herb planting, Mulching. Build a small hugelkultur. Harvest medicinal twigs & bark.
- Michael will have herb divisions, seeds and books for sale.
- Topics include: fertilizers and biological amendments, planting, propagation, Mediterranean sub-shrubs, perennial herbs, rhi
- We will tour on-site herb plantings. Learn about hands-on plant division. Herb planting, Mulching. Build a small hugelkultur. Harvest medicinal twigs & bark.
- Michael will have herb divisions, seeds and books for sale.
- Topics include: fertilizers and biological amendments, planting, propagation, Mediterranean sub-shrubs, perennial herbs, rhizomatous bed crops; shade understories; biennial crops; 4-year root crops; fragrant plants, pollinators; irrigation; harvesting, processing, and drying
Day 2 - Creating Medicinal Forests
Day 1 - Growing Medicinal Herbs - Garden & Farm
Day 1 - Growing Medicinal Herbs - Garden & Farm
- Every place on earth has the potential to grow their own medicines. For centuries, indigenous peoples world-wide have created social ecosystems with their favorite medicinal plants. Michael has been creating medicinal forests for over 40 years. Topics will include: Designing systems, species, ecology. Multi-level canopy. Spacing. Light.
- Every place on earth has the potential to grow their own medicines. For centuries, indigenous peoples world-wide have created social ecosystems with their favorite medicinal plants. Michael has been creating medicinal forests for over 40 years. Topics will include: Designing systems, species, ecology. Multi-level canopy. Spacing. Light. Understory. Succession. Coppicing. How to obtain yields every year from year one. We will look at onsite examples. We will do hands-on planting of trees, shrubs and herbs in polycultures. Michael will have medicinal trees, shrubs herb divisions, seeds and books for sale.
Day 3 - Wildcrafting Medicinal Plants
Day 1 - Growing Medicinal Herbs - Garden & Farm
Day 3 - Wildcrafting Medicinal Plants
- We will walk around fields and forests looking for useful species and will wildcraft species that are at the right stage. Michael will bring additional herbs to show & tell.
- Michael will introduce his favorite harvesting tools and demonstrate harvesting techniques. Please bring water, gloves and some favorite tools. We will make a species
- We will walk around fields and forests looking for useful species and will wildcraft species that are at the right stage. Michael will bring additional herbs to show & tell.
- Michael will introduce his favorite harvesting tools and demonstrate harvesting techniques. Please bring water, gloves and some favorite tools. We will make a species list of native and non-native plants we find during our walk-abouts. There will be a traveling library of noteworthy books. Sustainable wildcrafting. Techniques. Steel bar technique for taproots, bark stripping. Processing and drying. Questions and answers.