Location: Methow Valley (Mazama, Winthrop, Twisp areas). Overnight camp.
Travel to the Methow Valley
Wild harvesting foods and medicines on annual harvest schedule for May
Plant walks in multiple ecosystems on the east side, covering edible, medicinal and wildlife plants as well as utilitarian uses. Focus will be on the foothill and shrub steppe ecologies east of the Cascade Mountains.
Beneficial insects and pests (identification, the plants which attract them and their roles in the ecosystem.
The importance of tending wild spaces and building relationships with ecologies through reciprocal acts.