BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Boise X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Boise BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:MST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:2723460:Event:104801 DTSTAMP:20260509T002402Z SUMMARY:Medicinal Plant Permaculture Design Workshop DESCRIPTION:Herbalscaping is landscaping with a medicinal plant twist. The main object of herbalscaping (at the family level) is to provide herbal medicines specific to the family’s needs. One of the hallmark s of permaculture is complex polycultures, often multi-layered canopie s. This workshop will discuss trees, shrubs, berries, vines, herbaceou s perennials and annuals. What grows well together? How do we design, plant and manage polycultures?Medicinal plants can serve multiple func tions, as well as producing medicines and food. Medicinal plants can b e used for stunning ornamental landscaping. Herbalscaping can provide hedgerows for visual and/or animal barriers and/or windbreak protectio n. It can include long-term planting of medicinal trees for botanicals , shade trees, specialty wood products, timber, fruits, etc. They can also function to feed pollinators and wildlife food and habitat. Medic inal plants lend themselves well to polycultures, forest farming, perm aculture guilds, agroforestry and urban landscaping. Medicinal tree ar boretums and herbal botanic gardens are still all too few. Michael wi ll discuss where to site and how to plant and grow many medicinal herb s. Students are encouraged to ask for specifics if they have particula r herbs they want to know about. We will look at native and non-native plant species adapted to Whatcom and Skagit County conditions. Home u se and commercial. Plants for shady sites, sunny sites, dry, wet, seas hore, rocky, various soil types, etc. An “herbalscaping” business partnership includes a clinical herbalist who interviews families and comes up with a list of plants that meets each family’s specific he alth needs (and that can grow in this climate). The landscaper/designe r part of the team would design medicinal plants into the family’s y ard to meet the aesthetic and functional desires of the client. This c an involve integrating plants into already existing landscapes or star ting from bare soil. The client could hire the designer to install the plants, hire in a crew, or have a do-it-yourself project.Fragrancesca ping. During the workshop we will also touch on how herbalscaping can be integrated with “fragrancescaping” which I define as landscapin g with fragrant plants so that there is fragrance throughout the year. During the growing season we have flowering plants which are fragrant during daylight hours and a different set of species which are fragra nt at night. In winter we have plants with fragrant bark or evergreen foliage such as spicebush (Lindera benzoin) or Japanese pepper-tree (X anthoxylum piperitum). Luckily both are medicinal plants so fit into b oth categories.A one-day workshop for home-owners, gardeners and lands capers.MICHAEL “SKEETER” PILARSKI is a plant enthusiast whose farm ing career started in 2nd grade and whose organic farming career began in 1972 at age 25. He has been commercially farming and wildcrafting medicinal herbs for the last 20 years. He has worked with over 1000 pl ant species during his years of experience with farming, horticulture, wildcrafting, seed collecting, tree planting, nursery sales, permacul ture, forestry, agroforestry, and ethnobotany. Since 1988 he has taugh t 36 permaculture design courses in the US and abroad. He is the found er of the Northwest Herbal Fair, the Montana Herb Gathering.We will de sign an herbalscape for a residence’s yard in Bow Washington.Bring y our own lunch.\n \n\n\n\nFor more information visit https://transitio nwhatcom.ning.com/events/medicinal-plant-permaculture-design-workshop DTSTART;TZID=America/Boise:20160221T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Boise:20160221T170000 CATEGORIES:workshop LOCATION:Bow, WA WEBSITE:http://www.wildrootbotanicals.com URL:http://www.wildrootbotanicals.com CONTACT:360 724 7668 ORGANIZER:Leslie Lekos ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg": ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Heather K":https://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/HeatherK ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Leslie L ekos":https://transitionwhatcom.ning.com/profile/LeslieWilliams END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR