Location: Deception Pass State Park. Overnight camp just outside of the park.

• Travel to Deception Pass

• Comprehensive plant walks studying coastal ecology, medicinal edible and utilitarian uses.

• Edible seaweeds

• Sit spots

• Workshop on plant succession and invasive plants

• Workshop on permaculture and how nature grows in 7 layers

• Workshop on wild foods. Harvesting ethics, where you can harvest (we won’t be harvesting during class. We’ll bring samples of the wild foods with us to class) and how to prepare the foods.

Location: Methow Valley (Mazama, Winthrop, Twisp areas). Overnight camp.

• Travel to the Methow Valley

• 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.

• Natural medicine making workshop with Reisha Beck.

• Plant sit meditation with Reisha Beck

• Make dinner at camp with wild foods

• 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: Southwestern Washington (Scatter Creek, Nisqually and other locations). 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.

• Plant sits in an old growth forest.

• Workshop on plant propagation

Location: Mt. Baker - Heather Meadows, Hannegan Pass. Overnight camp at nearby location.

• Travel to Mt. Baker - Heather Meadows.

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

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

• Workshop on making wild cordage.

• Seed saving: Cleaning, storing and prepping seeds

• Closing circle: Where to go from here.