Upcoming Events
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: $600, including materials. Early bird discount: $525 if registered and paid by December 15th.
Any questions or to register you can email me at gardeningformedicine@yahoo.com
Medicinal Plant Sale
Coming in March! Exact date still tbd
For this two-day event, we will have so many Western and Chinese Medicinals, NW Natives and perennial vegetables that thrive in NW gardens! There will also be a great selection of seeds on hand, all gathered right here on the farm! (All of our 4-inch containers are $6 and gallons just $15! There will be a reduced rate for cash payments. Medicine will also be on hand, from a selection of tinctures to dried plants, even stones gathered here in the NW. We will be serving tea, hanging out, and always excited to talk plants!
Medicinal Plant Walk
Medicinal Plants of Winter, Sliding Scale
Sunday, March 1st from 10 to 12:30
Powell Butte, starting at the Visitor Center
Class will be part of a monthly offering where we explore the seasons through the story of plants. Certain times of the year are better to be sure of your ID and other times are better for gathering food or medicine. This class will explore winter twigs, gathering bark and how winter weather creates perfect opportunities to wildcraft plant medicine. We will not be gathering plants on this hike though. Plant walk will be held rain or shine. No registration required.
Where: We’ll meet in at the main Visitor Center of Powell Butte. You will enter the park from SE162nd and Division and drive to the end of the road. Please dress for the weather, and bring whatever you need for a 2-mile loop hike.
Cost: $0-$40, no one turned away for lack of funds. Please bring cash for this sliding scale offering!