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Help us raise funds to further our mission in promoting health through plants and a connection to the earthSunday, May 5, 2024, 10 am-4 pm 2740 Shirley Street, Eugene, Oregon
Plant and Garden Sale
A varied assortment of medicinal plants, edible perennials, and garden starts. Used garden supplies, garden tools, and garden equipment.
Workshops
1-2 pm Herbs for the Zombie Apocalypse
With a focus on growing and making herbal products to have on hand for a variety of unexpected emergencies. Also discussed will be which permaculture plants to grow to increase your self-reliance if there are breakdowns in accessing usual resources. Herbs for emergencies like smoke from wildfires, trauma and stress, first aid, and disorders seen in these circumstances.
Daphne Singingtree is an author, plant and midwifery educator, and water protector. Her debut speculative fiction book, Circle for the Earth, is due out June 2024.
2-3 pm Trash or treasure? Weeds you can eat
Amble through the garden, reassessing everything you thought you knew about weeds. Trusty, sturdy, and indestructible power packs of delicious nutrition: weeds will always be there, even when mass-produced soy and corn fail us. Identification and cooking/preparation tips from botanist and wild food nerd extraordinaire Heron Brae.
Heron Brae is a rogue botanist, herbalist, community restoration practitioner, Indigenous solidarity activist, and educator. She currently offers custom wild plant-related classes and consulting, as well as coaching decolonizing initiatives, as a part of Live Oak Consulting. Regularly seen crying by rivers and dancing in mountain meadows, she hopes that sharing plant knowledge will aid in shifting worldviews, reconnecting with roots, and creating a habitable future for all.
3-4 pm Tending Culture through Food Forests
Learn about permaculture food forests as we examine one in progress on Shirley Street. Discussing considerations in design and planting strategies. How plants interact and how to keep a food forest healthy.
Khyla Allis lives and teaches in the intentional community at Lost Valley Education Center, where she received her Permaculture Design and Ecovillage Design Education certifications. As the Garden Coordinator at Lost Valley, she teaches tree pruning, worms, soil science, compost, farm-to-table, preservation, and edible mushrooms in your garden.
Workshop suggested donation: $20-40 or one-two hour of garden work (done in advance on your schedule)
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
2740 Shirley St Eugene Oregon, 2740 Shirley St, Eugene, OR 97404-1824, United States,Eugene, Oregon