Instructor: Gabe Garms
Cost: $25

Come join us on a 3 hour plant walk starting at the main parking lot of the Bagley Lake trailhead.  We'll help you identify all of the mountain trees, plants, ferns and shrubs along the trail system We’ll also teach you which plants are good for food, medicine, tools and attracting wildlife. We'll also look at the relationships that the plants have with the birds, invertebrates and other elements of the natural world.

The blueberries should be starting to get plentiful at this time of year so bring along a bucket to harvest. We’ll learn about a myriad of mountain plants such as elephant’s head lousewort, parnassia, sitka valerian, pasqueflower, arnica and many more. This is one of the prettiest walks in the state and is even prettier when you know what all of the plants are. We’ll walk the loop at Bagley Lake and if we have time, we’ll head 1 mile up the road to the Fire and Ice Trail where we’ll study a slightly different ecology. I take my students on this walk for my immersion class and almost all of them come back to this spot often.

We’ll meet at the Bagley Lake parking lot at 10am.

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Instructor: Gabe Garms
Cost: $25
A Discover Pass is required for this walk

Come join us on a 3.5 hour plant walk at Deception Pass State Park near Oak Harbor, WA. We'll help you identify seaweeds, trees, plants and shrubs along the trails at Bowman Bay and Rosario Beach. We’ll also teach you which plants are good for food, medicine, tools and attracting wildlife. We'll also look at the relationships that the plants have with the birds, invertebrates and other elements of the natural world.

We’ll meet at the boat launch parking lot at Bowman Bay at 10am. We’ll loop around Lighthouse Point and then make our way to Rosario Beach via the trailhead just past the campground. On Lighthouse Point we’ll learn about seaweeds, camas, grass widow, grindelia, sea plantain, yerba buena, wild onions and so much more. Definitely bring along a camera and notebook because we’ll be learning about quite a few different plants.

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Instructor: Gabe Garms
Cost: $25
A Discover Pass is required for this walk

Come join us on a 3 hour plant walk starting at the main parking lot of Rockport State Park.  We'll help you identify trees, plants, ferns and shrubs along the trail system at Rockport State Park. We’ll also teach you which plants are good for food, medicine, tools and attracting wildlife. We'll also look at the relationships that the plants have with the birds, invertebrates and other elements of the natural world.

We’ll walk through both old and second growth forest ecologies and learn about their plant communities. The forest in bountiful with food and medicine. Come join us on this walk and learn all about these amazing plants.

We’ll meet at the main parking lot of Rockport State Park at 10am.

To register, click here.

Instructor: Gabe Garms
Cost: $25
A Discover Pass is required for this walk

Come join us on a 3.5 hour plant walk at Deception Pass State Park near Oak Harbor, WA.  We'll help you identify seaweeds, trees, plants and shrubs along the trails at West Beach and Goose Rock. We’ll also teach you which plants are good for food, medicine, tools and attracting wildlife. We'll also look at the relationships that the plants have with the birds, invertebrates and other elements of the natural world.

We’ll meet at the Goose Rock parking lot on the west side of the Deception Pass bridge at 9am. This parking lot usually fills up by 10am, which is why we are meeting at 9am. From there, we’ll walk about 1 mile to a little known part of Deception Pass known as the Balds. It’s a place on Goose Rock where glacial ice receded thousands of years ago and took all of the topsoil with it, right down to the bedrock. Now, only a select number of plants can grow in it’s topsoil. We’ll see plants such as naked broomrape, paintbrush, camas, Menzie’s larkspur, gold-backed fern, chocolate lily and so much more. The Balds light up with color this time of year. I’ll show you how to identify them all.

Then we’ll head back to the parking lot and drive 1.5 miles to West Beach where we will spend the remainder of the walk on the loop trail. On this part of the walk we’ll learn about sea blush, beach carrot, sea rocket, Pacific yew, kinnikinnick, sand verbena and more. Bring your notebook and camera because we’ll be learning about A LOT of plants.

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Instructor: Gabe Garms
Cost: $25
A Discover Pass is required for this walk

Come join us on a 3.5 hour plant walk at Deception Pass State Park near Oak Harbor, WA. We'll help you identify seaweeds, trees, plants and shrubs along the trails at Bowman Bay and Rosario Beach. We’ll also teach you which plants are good for food, medicine, tools and attracting wildlife. We'll also look at the relationships that the plants have with the birds, invertebrates and other elements of the natural world.

We’ll meet at the boat launch parking lot at Bowman Bay at 10am. We’ll loop around Lighthouse Point and then make our way to Rosario Beach via the trailhead just past the campground. On Lighthouse Point we’ll learn about seaweeds, camas, grass widow, grindelia, sea plantain, yerba buena, wild onions and so much more. Definitely bring along a camera and notebook because we’ll be learning about quite a few different plants.

To register, click here.

Instructor: Gabe Garms
Cost: $25

Come join us on a 3 hour plant walk at Northern State Recreation Area in Sedro-Woolley, WA. We'll help you identify trees, plants and shrubs along the trail system at Northern State. We’ll also teach you which plants are good for food, medicine, tools and attracting wildlife. We'll also look at the relationships that the plants have with the birds, invertebrates and other elements of the natural world.

There are quite a few native plants at Northern State and a fairly wide diversity of tree species. We’ll walk through wetland ecologies, second growth forest and open meadows. If we’re lucky, there still might be some cottonwood buds still on the fallen branches that we can harvest for medicine.

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