Permaculture Herb Gardening Series at Wolf Camp in Puyallup

Winter Series focusing on Permaculture Design:

January 10, 2010: Winter Is - The Most Important Time for Gardens. Meet at 1:00 PM at the Wolf Camp home office, 1026 14th St. SW, Puyallup WA 98371, and receive a tour of our property (and harvest a winter plant medicine from trees on our property) before reviewing the basic tenets of permaculture. In the second hour of the afternoon, we will again walk the property, mapping a cursory permaculture design, and deciding where to place our herb gardens. In the third hour, we will stake out the garden, take soil samples to send in for testing, and conduct some initial work on the plot in order to set up observe how water, soil, and naturalized plants will respond over the coming month. $15 for one person, $10 per additional friend/family. Simply RSVP at 425-248-0253 or email us and we'll set a place for you!

February 7, 2010: Time to Lay Down Roots in the Lowlands. Meet at 1:00 PM at the Wolf Camp home office, 1026 14th St. SW, Puyallup WA 98371, and observe how the work we completed during the last class effected the property (and harvest a medicine from a trees or shrub growing on the property) before receiveing a deeper review on the tenets of permaculture. We will also review the results of our soil samples, and discuss which kinds of plants will do well without changing soil composition. In the second hour of the afternoon, we will again walk the property, adding detail to our permaculture design, and make changes based on observations of water, soil, fauna and flora over the past month. We will also discuss various methods of organic gardening, including the fucuoca and biodynamic methods. In the third hour, we will start working the land in order to cultivate our herb gardens. $15 for one person, $10 per additional friend/family. Simply RSVP at 425-248-0253 or email us and we'll set a place for you!

March 7, 2010: Sprung to the Earth. Meet at 1:00 PM at the Wolf Camp home office, 1026 14th St. SW, Puyallup WA 98371, and observe how the work we completed last month effected the property before receiveing a summary review on the tenets of permaculture, on which plants do well in which kinds of soil, on the various philosophies of organic gardening, and on the permaculture design we've set for Year One on our new property. In the second hour of the afternoon, we will work to complete our herb garden preparations, and harvest an emerging medicinal plant naturally growning in our lawn. In the third hour, we will decide which plants to begin cultivating, separate and exchange seeds that participants may have stored over the past year, and look over various places from which to order and wildcraft seeds and plants. We will also transplant some herbs into the garden from our prior residences, and make plans for what topics of permaculture and herbalism to cover in the next three months. $15 for one person, $10 per additional friend/family. Simply RSVP at 425-248-0253 or email us and we'll set a place for you!

Spring Series focusing on Herbal Gardening

April 11, 2010: Herbal Medicine "98101". Meet at 1:00 PM at the Wolf Camp home office, 1026 14th St. SW, Puyallup WA 98371, and receive a summary review of the lessons learned over the past three months, and harvest a medicinal plant naturally growing in our lawn. We will also overview our plans for these three months to come, which will focus on herbal medicine as part of a permaculture lifestyle. In the second hour, we'll plant the herbs which are best to put in the ground at this time of spring, discussing their gifts: to the earth, and to us. In the third hour, we'll take a look at the herbal certification courses available online, discuss various herbalists in the region, and define our version of herbalism. We will also look at hand-outs on herbal vocabulary, flip through various books on herbal medicine, see a catalog of herbs within taxometric order, and identify some of the herbs which most interest us. $15 for one person, $10 per additional friend/family. Simply RSVP at 425-248-0253 or email us and we'll set a place for you!

May 2, 2010: May Day & Beltaine Celebration. Meet at 1:00 PM at the Wolf Camp home office, 1026 14th St. SW, Puyallup WA 98371, and receive a summary review of last month's work, especially our overview of herbalism whose details are a life-ling learning pursuit, and help us harvest a medicinal plant growing in the wetlands around our property. In the second hour, we will plant more the herbs which are best to put in the ground right about now, and discuss their gifts of nutrition, medicine, utility, and ecology. Finally, this weekend is a special moment in the year, as it's a traditioinal celebration of fertility (see beltaine, may day, etc.), so we'll spend the third hour planting a May Pole in the center of our new herb garden, walking the traditional ribbon up its spiral path, and celebrating with song and hors d'oeuvres that participants bring using ingredients from their home gardens, or from traditional May Day faire. $15 for one person, $10 per additional friend/family. Simply RSVP at 425-248-0253 or email us and we'll set a place for you!

June 4, 2010: Summertime ... and the Livin' is Easy. Summer is fast approaching, so after a review of the knowledge we've gained over the spring, we'll need to weed the herb garden (which is actually just harvesting and storing medicinal plant that naturally come up in our garden which we want to minimize) before spending the second hour planting the heat-loving herbs we hope to have in our gardens this year, discusiing their gifts of nutrition, medicine, utility and ecology. In the final hour, we will strategize how to take care of the herb garden over our busy summer season, and write an outline for next academic year's permaculture herb gardening series, which will take place twice a month! $15 for one person, $10 per additional friend/family. Simply RSVP at 425-248-0253 or email us and we'll set a place for you!