2011 Schedule of Workshops, Courses and Events
Friends of the Trees has been doing spring plant sales off and on since 1978. Over the years we have distributed over 175,000 trees, shrubs and vines in Washington, Idaho and Montana. Our offerings would make the start of a fantastic Forest Garden. We do not ship plants, so people have to pick them up in Tonasket on April 16 (or thereabouts).
Communication and Co-Creation with Devas, Nature Spirits, and the Faery Realms
Communication and Co-Creation with Devas, Nature Spirits, and the Faery Realms
2010 Schedule of Workshops, Courses and Events
January 9, 2010 - Tonasket. Seedy Saturday: The Okanogan Valley Seed Exchange.
January 15, 2010 - Olympia. Communicating with Fairies, Nature-Spirits and Devas.
Evening talk. Venue to be announced.
How many kinds of nature spirits and fairies are there? What do they do? How can we communicate with them? Why would we want to?
These are some of the questions we will explore. Michael is the founder of the Fairy & Human Relations Congress which has been held in Washington and Oregon annually for the past 9 years. The Congress brings together some of the world's leading fairy communicators. He is the compiler of the "Collected Fairy Manuscripts of Daphne Charters" and has lectured widely on the topic of fairies.
January 18, 2010 Olympia. Monday, 9:00 - 5:00 Workshop: Pacific Northwest Native Medicinal Plants.
Wildcrafting, Cultivation, Uses & Integration into Permaculture Systems.
January 19, 2010 Tuesday. 8:30 - 5:00 Winter Wildcrafting for Medicinal Plants. Wild Thyme Farm, Oakville.
We will do hands-on wildcrafting and processing of a number of medicinal plants. Devil's club root and rootbark, Oregon-grape root, cottonwood buds, Usnea lichen, lungwort lichen, butterbur root, cascara bark, dandelion root and licorice fern are some of the things we will be looking for. We will discuss other medicinal and useful plants we come across as well as talk about sustainability, ecology, ethics, Mostly we will be in the wild - experiential. $75 (limited to 16 participants). Michael has been commercially wildcrafting in northwest and north-central Washington for 14 years. He is one of Washington's most knowledgeable people about sustainable wildcrafting.
January 22, 2010 - Bellinham - Friday, 9:00 - 5:00. WINTER WILDCRAFTING.
The workshop will be held at a small farm in the Chuckanuts. The Chuckanuts are a mountain complex between Bellingham and Mount Vernon and the only place on Puget Sound where the mountains plunge directly into the sea
January 23, 2010 - Bellingham - Saturday, 9:00 - 5:00. WINTER WILDCRAFTING.
The workshop will be held at a farm in the south fork Nooksack valley.
We will do hands-on wildcrafting and processing of a number of medicinal plants at both sites. The information at these workshops is applicable to western Washington and the wet forests of the North Cascades.
January 24, 2010 Bellingham - Sunday. Squalicum Yacht Club 9:00 - 5:00. Permaculture Design Applied to Whatcom County.
Workshop and group exploration. How to make Whatcom County more food and resource self-reliant, restore fully-functioning ecosystems and become more
resilient to societal perturbations. Permaculture design can be applied at any scale - to any size of property or region. Permaculture design is usually
applied at the garden, homestead or farm scale. In this case we will take a look at how permaculture would approach designing at the whole Whatcom county level.
This necessitates looking at things from the micro to macro level from single yard designs, to blocks, neighborhoods, small towns, the city of Bellingham,
rural settled areas, farmland, forests, foothills and whole watersheds. This permaculture event will attempt to put them all into perspective.
Michael Pilarski has been one of the Northwest's leading permaculture teachers since 1986. He has lived in Whatcom County off and on since 1991.
January 25, 2010 Bellingham. Evening talk. Venue to be announced. Communicating with Fairies, Nature-Spirits and Devas.
February 20-21, 2010 Spokane
Day 1. Present a short workshop on seeds at the Spokane Seed Exchange.
Day 2 Workshop: "Using Native Plants in Cities and Farmlands: a Permaculture Approach"
The workshop will focus on using native plants in urban, suburban and farm landscapes for production of food, medicines, fiber, fuel, etc as well as for
ecological functions such as windbreaks, sound buffers, erosion control, shade, water retention, etc. We will explore how to bring more wild habitats and
native plants into human landscapes in a way that improves the quality of life for people and native flora and fauna. A win/win situation.
The role of yards, alleyways, riparian zones, farmland, etc. We will look at a range of native foods, medicinals and other useful plants
which can be grown at the home scale, at the farm crop scale, for ecosystem restoration and for creating wildcrafting opportunities. We will
combine species information, strategies and permaculture design.
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March 20-21, 2010 Hood River, Oregon, (date tbc) Vegetative plant propagation, spring root harvesting, transplanting. Hands-on workshop
March 27-28, 2010 Ephrata, (date tbc)
Day 1. Ecovillage Design and Permaculture Food Production.
Day 2. Natives Plants: Uses and Restoration. A plant walk in a shrub-steppe ecosystem up into the ridges north of Ephrata, Washington.
April 4. 2010 - Vashon Island. Guest instructor at Permaculture Design course. www.koruora.com/
April 17, 2010 - Tonasket. Okanogan Valley Spring Plant Frenzy.
A public plant exchange for the area. Anyone can bring plants, seedlings, nursery stock, trees, shrubs, etc to exchange, give-away or sell. Classes on gardening, fruit-growing, etc.
April 18. 2010 - Tonasket. Garden tour at Okanogan Biodiversity Farm.
The two-year-old planting combines trees, hedgerows, berries, vegetables and medicinal herbs. (date tbc)
May 1-2, 2010 Rice, Washington
Day 1: Permaculture design for yards and homesteads. Food production, etc
Day 2: Wild Plants of Stevens County: Traditional and Modern Uses.
Sustainable wildcrafting, weeds, edibles, medicinals, restoration and the role of wild plants in ecosystem functioning. Most of the day will be on plant walks.
Methow Valley, North-central Washington.
July 12-25. 2010 Methow Valley. Two-week Permaculture Design Course.
Skalitude Retreat Center, Michael Pilarski and other instructors. All of the above topics will be covered and much, much more.
The main focus is learning permaculture principles and design methodology. The principles and methodology, once learned, can be applied and adapted
to any site. Each site and each client are unique. No cookie-cutter solutions. The course covers the traditional Mollison permaculture curriculum as
well as lots of local knowledge. The species and techniques will be aimed at the interior Pacific Northwest which includes North-central Washington,
Eastern Washington, Eastern Oregon, Idaho, Western Montana and southern Interior British Columbia.
September 3-5. 2010 (dates to be confirmed) Washington State Permaculture Convergence. 3rd annual - Venue to be announced.
In addition to the above I expect to line up teaching gigs in Missoula and Hot Springs, Montana, Sandpoint,
Idaho and elsewhere in north-central Washington in the winter/spring months of 2010.
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