This is the registration form for the 2026 Ethnobotany Immersion Course Individual Weekends.

Dates available:

• Weekend #8: Basket Making, Sat, Oct 24 through Sun, Oct 25 SOLD OUT

  Location: Bellingham, WA

• Weekend #9 - Fermentation and Root Processing, Sat, Nov 21 through Sun, Nov 22

  Location: Bellingham, WA

  Instructors: Gabe Garms, Elisha Klco, Theodore Hoss

  • 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

  • Waterbath Canning

• Weekend #10 - 1 DAY Winter Plant ID, Celebration of knowledge, Saturday, December 5, 2026

  Location: Bellingham, WA

  Instructors: Elisha, Jeanette, and Theo

  This final session will be a chance to gather once again as a community, review what we know, and enjoy some time together. It will include a winter plant identification walk, an end of season plant quiz, and a celebration potluck.

Total Cost: $300 per weekend ($270 per weekend if you have a friend sign up as well, 10% referral discount)

Once you have filled out this registration form, we will contact you to set up a short 10-15 minute welcome call to answer any questions you may have, and to ensure that you have all the details you need for the course!

For any further questions about the program, please contact us!

To return to the program webpage to continue learning about the class and what it has to offer, click here!

Under Quantity, please select the number of weekends for which you are signing up.