Day Workshops, access to information one day at a time! Open to everyone. All workshops include a local, whole foods lunch. For all your herbal needs, the RavenCroft Garden Herb Shop will be open the day of class.

• Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
• Place: RavenCroft Garden
• Fee: TBA
• Early Bird Registration TBA when full payment received 2 weeks prior to class.
• To Register: Mail check or credit card # with registration form to RavenCroft Garden PO Box 170 Startup, WA 98293 Or call 360/794-2938 and register over the phone using your credit card, MC/VISA accepted
• Refund Policy: deposits refundable up to 2 weeks prior to event, minus $10 office fee; within 2 weeks of the event, deposits may be transferred to another course within the year.

Create an ideal garden space wherever you live. Meet a variety of plants with a multitude of uses to bring food, medicine, fiber, fencing, habitat and beauty into your yard. It’s easy and fun. A good design saves a thousand steps. Learn simple design techniques; stacking functions, zonation, the recycling of energy and plant guilds. Work with existing influences on your site, mineral and water cycling and your specific intentions and green dreams to create your unique garden.

Healthy plants are the natural outgrowth of healthy soil. At RavenCroft, see examples of sheet composting, worm bins, bacterial & fungal compost systems and compost teas. Use herbs to engage cosmic and earthly forces in the garden. Explore photosynthesis & propagation methods. Use natural fertilization, capture heat & light, build season extenders, greenhouses, cloches, cold-frames; see how to increase space with trellises, arbors, walls. A great opportunity to meet a wide variety of plants and learn to grow them.

Learn skills to create your own herbal home pharmacy. Make safe herbal preparations: tinctures, vinegars, infusions, decoctions, oils and honeys. Explore the world of plant chemistry/alchemy. Your kitchen will be forever changed!

Transform herbal preparations into an array of home remedies. Create a salve, cream, cough syrup, poultice, compress, massage oil, soak, bath and much more!! Use them for daily health, first aid, acute or chronic situations, bath, beauty and home care products. Your life will be forever changed! ood Camp is a grassroots look at what food is & where it comes from. Learn how people the world over have allied with local micro-organisms and nature to preserve food, increase digestibility and improve nutrient uptake. Find out why these time-honored methods are being lost and how you can keep them alive!

Celebrating Ourselves & Our World One Bite At A Time!

Food Camp celebrates the home cook, small organic farmer, kitchen gardener, food manufacturer and restaurateur who join in a common vision and action to bring safe food, excellent flavor and restored, life generating environments to our communities.

Food Camp teaches people to capture the harvest with artisan techniques, from the world over, employing local culture, nature and tradition for preservation, increased digestibility and improved nutrient uptake. Create a foundation of health using these time-honored methods of food preparation. Keep alive artisan skills and bring delicious foods to your table!

Learn lactic fermentation skills for preserving vegetables, what to expect from the ferment and how to tend the crock for optimum safety. You’ll create sauerkraut, dill pickles, kimchees, herbed miso, tsukemono and gain an appreciation for worldwide fermented foods. Naturally fermented dandelion leek miso for lunch! Culture rises from the earth.

What magic turns milk to cheese, yogurt, keifer and buttermilk? You will make & taste a variety of cultured milk-based foods and learn the tradition and science behind their creation. Come and meet the cultures.

EagleSong, CCH: “Chief Fermenter”, Founder of RavenCroft and Kitchen Garden Goddess for The Herbfarm Restaurant.

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