Start Date: March 1, 2021

End Date:  Nov 1, 2021

Location: Chimacum, WA (plus commuting between Irondale & Port Hadlock)

Schedule:  2-3 times a week 10am - 5pm.  Days to be agreed upon.

Number of Positions Available: 1

Episode 18: Michael "Skeeter" Pilarski
Produced Feb 3, 2021

We talk with esteemed permaculturist Michael Pilarski about Bill Mollison, science & "woo", working with nature spirits, "Restore the Earth" party, restoring the earth, and making money from growing herbs in a regenerative way.

Some Crop Categories and Crops

For North Temperate Climates

Friends of the Trees Society, February 18, 2015 Version

Compiled by Michael Pilarski for the workshop series

1000 Crops for Northwest Growers

Avid wildcrafter and medicinal herb farmer Michael Pilarski shares how to process Lomatium dissectum.

Step 1. Spray wash roots. We sometimes dry brush roots before shipping and sometimes we thoroughly spray wash them. If they are not spray washed, that is step one. A hose with a good nozzle will work.

Ho Shou Wu Root "Fo-ti root". 2 years old. Scientific name- Reynoutria multiforia. Formerly known as- "Fallopia multiflora" and "Polygonum multiflorium" Filmed Dec 9th 2019 near Port Townsend, Washington

Permaculturist and avid medicinal herb farmer Michael Pilarski "Skeeter" talks about Joe Pye Weed (Eupatorium purpureum).  Filmed near Port Townsend, Washington. Nov. 19 2019  *Correction- "Queen of the Meadow" is a nickname for Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria).

June 2, 2018.

Recently, I was approached by a company looking for wild tree pollen to incorporate into products which would expose babies born in sterile hospital environments to natural substances. This is to reduce their allergy load during life. So I was looking for an opportunity to harvest alder catkins.

Skeeter shares how to harvest Hawthorn flowers. Filmed May 15th 2018 near Port Townsend, Washington.