Our short courses range from 3 hours to one day, weekend or week long classes on topics such as permaculture, wilderness survival, herbalism, ethnobotany, hunter/gatherer lifestyle, wildlife tracking, bird language, homesteading and more. We're always adding new courses so check for updates either on this page or feel free to subscribe to our Facebook page, which is updated frequently. If you'd like to create a custom course for a small group, fill out the form here and we'll get right back to you. Below you’ll find all of our short courses for 2025. Check back regularly for updates.
Cattail and Tule Harvesting Workshop
$45.00
Date: Friday September 12th, 2025
Time: 4-6pm
Location Twisp WA (Exact location will be given after registration)
Join us for an afternoon of harvesting cattail and tule for basket making! Learn how to harvest both of these wild wetland plants and how to process and store for future basket weavings!
Participants will join Reisha on a wild harvest and process their own cattail and tule to take home and dry/store for their own basket weavings.
For more information and to register click here.
Cattail and Willow Bark Basket Class
Date: Saturday, September 13th, 2025
Time: 10am to 4pm
Instructor: Reisha Beck
Cost: $100
Location: Twisp WA (Exact location will be given after registration)
Join us for a day of basket weaving! In this hands-on workshop participants will learn the basics of twined and plaited cattail and willow bark basketry. We will also cover how and when to harvest cattails and willow bark, display and demonstrate other types of materials used in twined basketry and cover the Ethnobotanical traditions of cattail and bark baskets. Students will go home with a finished basket!
For more information and to register click here.
Fall Root Medicine Making Workshop
$60
Date: Friday September 26th, 2025
Time: 1-4pm
Instructor: Reisha Beck
Location: Twisp WA (exact location will be given after registration)
Come process wild medicinal roots with me and turn them into medicine for you and your community! In this very hands-on workshop participants will learn how to: process the wild medicinal roots that I harvest, when and how to harvest with reciprocity, and how to create a relationship with these plants while preserving them into herbal medicines.
Basic tincture and glycerite making instructions will be given, this is not an in-depth tincture/glycerite making class. If you’ve never made a tincture/glycerite or oxymel before, you will go home with basic understanding of folk medicine making.
To register and for more information click here.