I am again an apprentice instructor for the Ethnobotany Immersion Course with Raven’s Roots for 2026! This year, we are expanding the course to include more weekends, more trips, and many more hands-on activities. The course runs one weekend a month, March - December 2026. Other instructors include Elisha Klco, Theodore Hoss, Gabe Garms, and Reisha Beck. Follow the link below for more information and to sign up!

https://ravensroots.org/ethnobotany

“The Ethnobotany Immersion Course has been the flagship program here at Raven’s Roots for the last 11 years now and we couldn't be more excited to begin our 2026 cohort of ethnobotany classes. Our passion for plants, harvesting ethics, perennial food crops, utilitarian plant uses and natural medicines specifically, have driven us to spend countless hours in the field studying both Washington's native and naturalized plants and trees. 

Over the course of the 10 months, we'll study plants at every stage of their growth cycle and how they interact with all of the other elements in the ecosystem around them (the soils/soil life, invertebrates, wildlife etc).  We'll learn how to make plant based medicines, personal care products, baskets, primitive tools and how to preserve and store all of our food/medicine once it's been harvested. 

The tuition for the program also includes camping for the field trips and materials for the medicines that you will be taking home from class. You will go home with tinctures, salves, fermentation starter cultures.”