Public Food and Medicine Walks (April- September 2025)
Join me for free monthly plant walks happening in Bend parks this Spring and Summer! We will introduce ourselves to the many food and medicine plants growing right in town, sharing about their identifying characteristics, nutritive qualities, folkloric histories, and some medicinal ideas for bringing them into our lives. Learning will be as much through the senses as will be through fun facts.
April 22nd: Blakely Park, 5pm
May 20th: Sawyer Park (meet on bridge), 5pm
June 17th: First Street Rapids (meet on bridge), 5pm
July 22nd: Miller's Landing, 5pm
August 12th: Blakely Park, 5pm
September 23rd: Shevlin Park, 5pm
Bring your dog, bring your children, bring your friends!
Ponderosa Pine Slow Study (May-May '24-'25)
This yearlong course is for those who wish to deepen their relationship with Ponderosa Pine, the iconic, red-barked conifer standing on the eastern slopes of the Cascades. Do you ever wonder about their story here, or the medicine within them? Ever wish to spend a little more time getting to know our most prevalent tree in Bend?
Each month we bring Ponderosa Pine a little closer to our hearts, be it through basketweaving, storytelling, medicine making, or studying local logging history and wildfire ecology, their historic magic, and seasonal edibility. I can assure you, the way you see the Pines and more so, our place, will change.
The commitment is 2-3 hours, once a month.
All ages welcome.
One Sunday (time varies) of every month
May-May
Drop ins welcome. Regularity encouraged.
Suggested donation, $25-55 per class
Pop Up Classes!
Come along for spontaneous wildcrafting classes and foraging field trips in the Central Oregon area. The intention is to nurture community-building while preserving our memory of the seasons with handmade folk medicines, foraged foods, woven fiber crafts, and botanical illustrations, bringing us closer together with our plant kin.
These classes are donation based and casual~ more of planty hang outs with a little education and experimentation sprinkled in!
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