Upcoming Events

Tending the Winter Landscape

Class will meet on the following Saturdays from 10a to 4p:
January 25th, February 8th, February 22nd and March 15th.

This series is a hands-on, deep dive into understanding and tending place during the winter months. Participants will learn the secrets to identifying plants throughout the year and recognizing ecological features that tell the narrative of place. With these basics in mind, we will explore hands-on activities to tend the landscape while also providing ourselves with food and medicine. We will see that we can provide for our needs while also improving the landscape around us!

Class will be held at the beautiful Mahonia Land Trust just outside Oregon City, with carpools available from Portland. Folks will take home a bounty of what the land has to offer: medicinal preparations, a mushroom log, plant starts, and the know-how to better serve the landscape around us. At lunch, a dish using plants grown on the land trust will be shared with participants.

What you will learn:

Winter twig ID

Understanding the ecology of a place

Finding microclimates and planting native plants in ideal spots for them to thrive

Winter tree pruning basics

How to safely fell a tree

Planting mushrooms into a landscape for food and habitat

Harvesting winter plant medicine

Botany of the flower

How to harvest late winter/early spring edibles

Making herbal preparations

Discussing herbal medicine for the winter months

Class will mostly be held outdoors, with an indoor space for lunch. Participants should be ready for a hands-on day outside in winter weather. Class will be taught by Gradey Proctor, Missy Rohs and Mark Bassik

Class cost is: $650, including materials. Early bird discount: $575 if registered and paid by December 15th.

Any questions or to register you can email me at gardeningformedicine@yahoo.com

Community Day

Want to come hang out at the Medicine Garden Farm and see what’s growing?! This year we will host community members to come tour the farm and nursery! we will also take on a larger land project together while we all discuss the magic of plants, learn about growing medicine and grow our community of plant people!

Our next gathering will be on Friday, March 28th from 10 to 2:30. To keep things to a manageable size, I am asking folks to email if they are able to come. I will also work to arrange carpools from Portland and Oregon City. Let me know if you have any questions or ideas.

If this option doesn’t work I will have nursery sales and other events as the year unfolds.

Offerings

Hey Plant People! For the month of February, I am offering a special for those wanting to get going with a Medicinal Garden. For just $120 I will deliver 10 medicinal plant starts, seeds and hang out for 60 minutes in your garden getting you all the know how to be successful with your new plant friends! We can also ID plants or weeds in your space, identify microclimates in your landscape so we can find suitable places for your plant friends, etc. Really, however you’d like to use the time to grow better. This is a great time for this offering as spring is just around the corner!

I have selected 10 plants for their ease of growing in the northwest as well as covering basic medicinal needs of a household. Included in this package you will be getting 4-inch starts of Skullcap, Echinacea, Mugwort, Marshmallow, Comfrey, Arnica, Blue Vervain, Elecampane, Meadowsweet and Yarrow. I'm also colluding a seed pack for some easy to grow annuals that you can just scatter about in the winter. I promise these will come! Here I am including borage, Calendula and California Poppy.

Just let me know if you’d like to schedule a visit or if you have any questions. Check out Medicine-garden.net via the contact page or (503) 489 3483ne-off classes will live here.