[Sdpg] Friends of the Trees Society: Internships, Food, Permaculture

Thu May 29 15:10:19 PDT 2008

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May 2008 Newsletter
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* Friends of the Trees is looking for one or more dedicated and
capable person(s) to work for the rest of this season's farming and
wildcrafting. This could be for people seeking long-term community or
for people seeking a one-year apprenticeship in permaculture farming
wildcrafting. Useful skills include: farming experience, marketing,
networking, herbal medicine, wildcrafting, and a friendly, cooperative
attitude. Financial arrangements negotiable. 

* Short term volunteers are also welcome. A few days or a week.
Farming work is continuous while wildcrafting ebbs and flows. Friends
of the Trees Botanicals currently offers 150 different medicinal
herbs, cultivated and wildcrafted. 

* Let us know if you are interested in coming by and lending a hand
and seeing what we are up to. Call or email first to check into our
schedule and get directions. There will be periods when none of us
will be at the farm. 

* I have rented office space in Tonasket and am setting up a Friends
of the Trees Agriculture Library.  My extensive library will be open
one day a week as a reference library. It will open sometime in June.

* No one has showed up (yet) to be part of the Okanogan Biodiversity
Farming Cooperative so the opportunity is still open. I am cooperating
with the owners of both pieces of land I am planting on and with other
local farmers, so a cooperative is happening in a sense.  

Grow food, eat locally, buy food from your friends, hug trees, and
take time to smell the flowers

Organic Farm Internships

Want to learn more about organic food growing?
Looking for community?

A number of Tonasket area organic farmers seek interns and workers to
help on their farms. 

The Okanogan valley is home to diverse cultures including native
American (1.3 million acre Colville Reservation), orchardists,
townspeople, ranchers, Hispanics and a lively back-to-the-land
community. There are a couple dozen, small organic farmers in the
valley. 

My Hood River, Oregon herb farm is still seeking an intern as is Cloud
View Ecofarm in the Columbia Basin. 

Internship possibilities 
http://www.friendsofthetrees.net/internships.htm

Okanogan Crop Marketing

YUMMY FOOD FOR SALE !

OKANOGAN VALLEY ORGANIC FARMERS 
NEED MARKETS 

Eastern Washington grows hot weather crops to perfection.

A number of Tonasket area organic farmers are seeking markets for our
crops. One of our Tonasket organic farm friends is famous for his
delicious melons and heirloom tomatoes and produces tons of both.
Between all of us, we can supply many tons of food this year. Would
you like a shipment? What ideas do you have?

We would love to sell to food-buying cooperatives. Neighborhoods or
friendship circles can pool their purchasing and make a sizable bulk
order with us. We are hoping that some of our visiting workers can
take deliveries back to their home-town or make a drop-off en route.
Or the buying clubs can send members to pick up orders.  

List of crops we can supply 
in relative orders of abundance:
Tomatoes
Watermelons
Cantalopes
Crenshaw melons
Orange melons
Many other kinds of melons
Peppers
Eggplant
Basil
Apricots
Cherries
Winter squash
Potatoes
Summer squash
Plus smaller amounts of other vegetables and culinary herbs. 

If there is a demand, we will send a weekly update of crops ready for
harvest to participating food buying co-ops and customers. 

Bellingham Permaculture Design Course, June 11 - 23

Instructors: Marisha Auerbach, Kelda Miller, Michael Pilarski, Brian
Hindman, David Sansome, Matt Van Boven, Bruce Horowitz, David Zhang,
and special guests! 

Low-cost course. $750. If you can't afford the full price call David
to discuss work trade options.  206-227-7051.

www.bellinghampermaculture.com  http://www.bellinghampermaculture.com

Evergreen State Permaculture Convergence, September 11-14

Sahale Retreat Center 
near Belfair, Washington

A get-together for permaculture people  
around Washington State & beyond. 

For anyone interested in permaculture. 

Sharing solutions, inspirations and insights!

Convergence Goals: 
* Meet face to face with many other permaculture people to exchange
knowledge, ideas and visions.
* Strengthen information flow and cooperation between permaculturists
in the state of Washington and beyond. 
* Have a great time!

In the 1980s and 1990s there were a series of Northwest permaculture
gatherings held in Washington State at the Bullock brother's homestead
on Orcas Island, Pragtree Farm in Snohomish county and Wild Thyme Farm
near Oakville. We haven't had a state-wide convergence for some time
and lots more people are interested in permaculture.  So let's get
together on the banks of the Tahuya River and celebrate!

Sahale Reteat Center is located in southwest Kitsap County near the
lower end of the Hood Canal. Sahale has hosted two permaculture design
courses and is implementing permaculture at their site. Sahale offers
a variety of accomodations and lots of camping space. They have a
large kitchen, and meeting facilities to accomodate 150 people. Sahale
is the rural center for the Goodenough Community, a long-time
community based in Seattle. 

Let's feed ourselves a permaculture bounty. Bring food you have grown,
raised, caught or wildcrafted. 

How can you help?   There are many major and minor roles to play. We
currently have 5 people on the steering committee, but need more as
well as local organizers and volunteers at the event itself. 

email Michael  
mailto:michael at friendsofthetrees.net?Subject=Permaculture Convergence

Sahale Permaculture Design Course

Late February or early March, 2009
Sahale Retreat Center 
near Belfair, Washington

Instructed by Michael Pilarski and Laura Sweany 

For further information contact:
Laura Sweany at 206-369-7590 

email Laura  mailto:lauraflora at msn.com?subject=Sahale Permaculture

Fairy book at the printers

Forty Years with the Fairies. Volume I of The Collected Fairy
Manuscripts of Daphne Charters is at the printers.  

This new book was just compiled by Michael Pilarski. One of the most
detailed works about the lives of the fairies ever written. Daphne's
writings span the time period from 1950 to 1990. Much of this book has
never before been published. Fascinating! Entertaining! Uplifting! We
expect delivery of the first printing in June.  $20 plus $4
shipping/handling. To order a copy send a check for $24 to Friends of
the Trees, PO Box 253, Twisp, WA 98856. Or pick up a copy at the 8th
Fairy & Human Relations Congress on June 27-29 in north-central
Washington. 

Forty Years with the Fairies - Daphne Charters 
http://www.fairycongress.com/Daphne/daphne.htm

Native Plant Restoration with Native Medicinal Herbs

1:30-3:30pm Sunday Aug 3 at the Montana Herb Gathering in Bozeman

Topics covered: Need for native plant and habitat restoration.
Restoration methods. How to incorporate medicinals, native medicinals.
Ethnobotany and ethnoecology (how native tribal people affected the
plant vegetation patterns and abundance in the landscape). Several
dozen native medicinal plants will be discussed.

Montana Herb Gathering  http://www.montanaherbgathering.org/

email Michael  mailto:friendsofthetrees at yahoo.com

Michael Pilarski

michael at friendsofthetrees.net
www.friendsofthetrees.net
360-927-1274

Fairy & Human Relations Congress - Skalitude Retreat Center, POB 74 -
Carlton - WA - 98114

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