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Harvest Festival

Saturday, November 8th 11 to 3pm
Location still tbd

Are you looking for organic, locally grown, dried medicinal herbs and fresh roots to stock up your medicinary this winter? Herbs to round out the Holiday medicine making? Perhaps a few more medicinal plants to fill holes in the garden? If any are true, we encourage you to join us for our Harvest Festival Pop-up to see what we’ve grown! We’ll be around from 11am to 3pm!

All this medicine was lovingly grown right here in Oregon City this year, so you know you will be getting high quality! Our website – www.medicine-garden.net has a list of much of what we are up to. If you want to make sure we have what you’re after, we are happy to set aside pre-paid orders! We hope you can make it!

  • Seeds gathered this year and ready for planting in Spring! - $4

  • Most 4-inch perennials 3 for $10
    Gallon sized pots for $10

  • Various medicinal preparations

  • Dried herbs of plants like: Tulsi, Calendula, Red Clover, Mullein, Anise Hyssop, Skullcap, Mint(s), Cramp Bark, Eleuthero, Oregon Grape and so much more
    Freshly dug Roots: Elecampane, Aralia, Ashwaganda, Burdock, Angelica, Marshmallow and Valerian

  • Fresh and Frozen: Milky Oats, Elderberries and Hawthorn Berries

  • Magical Minerals gathered by the kiddos and I throughout the NW

Tending the Winter Landscape

Class will meet on the following Saturdays from 10a to 4p:
January 24th, February 7th, February 21st, and March 7th

This series is a hands-on, deep dive into understanding and tending place during the winter months. Participants will learn the secrets to identifying plants throughout the year and recognizing ecological features that tell the narrative of place. With these basics in mind, we will explore hands-on activities to tend the landscape while also providing ourselves with food and medicine. We will see that we can provide for our needs while also improving the landscape around us!

Class will be held at the beautiful Mahonia Land Trust just outside Oregon City, with carpools available from Portland. Folks will take home a bounty of what the land has to offer: medicinal preparations, a mushroom log, plant starts, and the know-how to better serve the landscape around us.

Skills you will learn: Winter twig ID, Ecology, Finding microclimates and planting native plants, Winter tree pruning basics, How to safely fell a tree, Tapping Maple Trees for syrup, Planting mushrooms into a landscape for food and habitat, Harvesting winter plant medicine and Making herbal preparations to new a few.

Class cost is: $650, including materials. Early bird discount: $575 if registered and paid by December 15th.

Any questions or to register you can email me at gardeningformedicine@yahoo.com

Plotting and Planting

Running a pretty special deal for the start of Autumn! For just $120 I will deliver TEN medicinal plant starts, seeds and hang out for 90 minutes in your garden, getting you all the know-how to be successful with your new plant friends!

Did you know that right now is the BEST time for planting perennials? They are putting their energy into the earth during the cooling weather, building a solid foundation, so they are ready for the upwards pull of spring. Plus, with the rain returning we don’t have to worry about watering!

With our time, we can also ID plants or weeds in your space, identify microclimates in your landscape so we can find suitable places for your new plant friends, etc. Really, however you’d like to use the time to grow better. This is a wonderful time for this offer as fall is the best time for planting, and our brains are full of what worked and what didn't.

I have selected ten plants for their ease of growing in the Northwest as well as covering basic medicinal needs of a household. Included in this package you will be getting 4-inch starts of Skullcap, Echinacea, Marshmallow, Comfrey, Arnica, Blue Vervain, Elecampane, Catnip, Meadowsweet and Yarrow. Substitutions are welcome! I'm also colluding a seed pack for some easy to grow annuals that you can just scatter about in the winter. I promise these will come!

Just let me know if you’d like to schedule a visit or if you have any questions. Email me at gardeningformedicine@yahoo.com or call (503) 489 3483 for more information or to schedule a visit.