On January 13, Marty Wingate will present a lecture titled:
Gardens and Gardeners Abroad
Want an International slant on gardening? Marty Wingate is a writer and speaker on gardens and travel who shares her love of Britain in two mystery series – the Potting Shed books and Birds of a Feather. Her garden books include Perennials for the Pacific Northwest and Landscaping for Privacy. She leads garden tours to England, Scotland and Ireland, spending free moments deep in research for her mysteries. Or in pubs.
January 20, Michael Pilarski will discuss:
Medicinal Herbs-How to Grow and Use Them
Herbalscaping is landscaping with a medicinal plant emphasis. The main object of herbalscaping (at the family level) is to provide herbal medicines specific to the family’s needs. Michael Pilarski is a plant enthusiast whose farming career started in 2nd grade. He has been commercially farming and wildcrafting medicinal herbs for the last 22 years. He has worked with over 1,000 plant species during his years of experience with farming, horticulture, wildcrafting, seed collecting, tree planting, nursery sales, permaculture, forestry, agroforestry, and ethnobotany.
The January 27 presentation focuses on the gardening medium: soil.
1st Hour: Growing a Revolution—Bringing our Soil Back to Life
2nd Hour: The Microbial Roots of Life and Health
The Hidden Half of Nature
Nicole Larson discusses ethnobotany on February 3.
Ethnobotany of the Olympic Peninsula
Nicole Larson is a naturalist, educator, herbalist and lover of ethnobotany. She has been teaching classes on ethnobotany, herbal medicine and nature connection within her local community to youth and adults for over 15 years.
On February 10, Kelly Dodson and Sue Milliken discuss:
Shade Gardening in Jefferson County
Our favorite shade gardens are like an exciting walk through an especially rich forest with surprises and delights at every turn of the path. For that great shade garden, we will look at key design elements and exciting plant possibilities.
On February 17, Judi Stewart will tell us how to:
Grow Great Fruit Locally
Judi Stewart was born and raised in New York City and traded the business world and city life for big dogs, chickens and gardening. When she’s not cooking, Judi has been raising poultry, growing small fruits and grafting fruit trees. Whether planting in a container or in the ground, Judi will be sharing the innovative and sustainable technologies she uses today in order to produce healthy, superior and abundant fruit harvests.
