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Growing Anti-Viral Herbs with Michael Pilarski "Skeeter" of Friends of the Trees Botanicals. Part of the series Weekly Wednesday Webinars hosted by Finnriver InCider Space.
Bio- Michael has been commercially farming medicinal plants for 24 years. 2020 is his 4th year of farming medicinals at the Finnriver Cidery location. He has also farmed in eastern Washington, Oregon, and Montana. His planting have a wide diversity of species and are based on agroforestry, permaculture and polyculture. friendsofthetrees.net | globalearthrepairfoundation.org
MICHAEL “SKEETER” PILARSKI is a life-long student of plants and earth repair. His farming career started in 2nd grade and his organic farming career began in 1972 at age 25. Michael founded Friends of the Trees Society in 1978 and took his first permaculture design course in 1982. Since 1988 he has taught 36 permaculture design courses in the US and abroad. His specialties include earth repair, agriculture, seed collecting, nursery sales, tree planting, fruit picking, permaculture, agroforestry, forestry, ethnobotany, medicinal herb growing, hoeing and wildcrafting. He has hands-on experience with over 1000 species of plants. He is a prolific gathering organizer and likes group singing.