Location: Bellingham, WA

• Botany basics

• What is ethnobotany?

• Medicine making basics: tincture, tea, salve

• Forest succession

• 7 layers

• Plant adaptations

• Perennial vegetables

• Wild foraging in the spring

• Intro to permaculture strategies

• Plant propagation (division, seeds)

• Recommended reading

• Garden tour

Location: Deception Pass State Park. Overnight camp

• Coastal ecology

• Seaweeds

• West side plants (edible, medicinal and utilitarian uses)

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.

Location: South Puget Sound (Billy Frank Jr. Wildlife Reserve, Millersylvania State Park, Garry Oak Prairie). Overnight camp.

• Travel south to Olympia area

• Plant walks covering edible, medicinal and wildlife plants as well as utilitarian uses. Focus on oak prairie and wetland ecosystems

• Focus on the role fire plays in habitat restoration. As well as discussing how traditional people’s relationship with fire to tend the land.

• Ecological impacts of fire suppression and colonization 

• Sit spot in Garry Oak Savannah

• Indigenous land management with fire

Location: Olympic Peninsula (Lyre River, Hurricane Ridge and 1 other location on the North Coast). Overnight camp.

• Travel to The Olympic Peninsula.

• Plant walks in three very diverse ecologies. Focusing on Medicinal, edible and utilitarian uses. 

• Old Growth ecologies

• Coastal ecologies

• Alpine Meadow ecologies 

• Edible berries 

Location: Mt. Baker (Horseshoe Bend Trail, Fire and Ice Trail, Bagley Lakes). Overnight camp.

• River walk in the mount baker national forest

• Carnivorous plants 

• Travel to Mt. Baker - Heather Meadows on Sunday. 

• Subalpine plant walks where we'll discuss edible, medicinal, wildlife attracting and utilitarian uses for plants.

• Berry Harvesting 

Location: Bellingham, WA

• Infused oils

• Salves 

• Tinctures 

• Oxymels 

• Elixirs

• Lotions 

• Syrups  

• Tea Blends 

• Seed saving

Location: Bellingham, WA

• Make a small basket using ponderosa pine needles.

• Make a small basket using cattail.

• Multiple types of natural cordage and techniques to make it

• Discuss how to harvest cattail for basket making

• Growing other basketry crops.

  
  

Location: Bellingham, WA

• Lactofermentation - Beyond kraut and kimchi.

• Fermented beverages from around the world. Students go home with kombucha and jun scoby and milk kefir grains.

• Fermenting with wild ingredients and perennial vegetables.

• How to make tempeh. Students go home with tempeh spores.

• Fermenting seeds, legumes and grains from the garden.

• Medicinal vinegars, honeys and syrups with plants grown in our gardens.

• How to build incubators at a low cost to make yogurt, koji, tempeh and more.

• Drinking vinegars: oxymels and shrubs.

• Root processing and harvesting 

• Fall tending of gardens 

• Cottonwood bud harvest