Medicinal Herb Micro-Farming Workshop - Spokane, WA

7213 N. Regal St,Spokane WA 99217

17 April, 2021

Description

This hands-on workshop will show you the possibilities of getting into small-scale medicinal herb production. This workshop will be geared towards small-scale, commercial production and will include hands-on activities and tool demonstrations. Useful for those already growing herbs as well as beginners. Topics Include: Design, planting, species, harvesting, irrigation, weeding, marketing and so much more. We will look at examples of rhizomatous bed crops, annuals, biennials, 4-year root crops, long-term perennials, sub-shrubs, trees, etc. New plots can be worked up with a tractor, a perennial system is planted and it is largely hand tools after that. How to achieve good production starting in year one and every year thereafter. Bring: Brown bag lunchWater bottle / ThermosGarden glovesCome prepared for the weather and getting your hands dirty!This is an outside event. Masks are optional with social distancing. After the Workshop, from 4:00-6:00 pm there will be a Plant Sale with medicinal herbs, trees and shrubs.Pre-Order Here: https://friendsofthetrees.square.site/ About the instructor: Michael Pilarski "Skeeter" is a farmer, educator, author and permaculture instructor who has devoted his life to studying and teaching how people can live sustainably on this Earth.  He grows a diversity of medicinal and food plants in complex, agroforestry systems.  Blending permaculture, restorative ecology and ethnobotany to enhance restorative land practices. His Herb Farm, Friends of the Trees Botanicals, has grown a wide diversity of crops in permaculture and agroforestry systems since 1972. He has been farming medicinal plants for the last 34 years in Eastern and Western Washington with a focus on small-scale and low capitalization. Pilarski’s 1/4 acre micro-farm in Chimacum, WA grossed $45,000 in 2020 (year 3). FriendsoftheTrees.net Plant Sale Pre-Order Herehttps://friendsofthetrees.square.site/