This seminar will be held at the Bastyr campus in the filed, check in in room 184.
Description: This is a field-based, hands-on workshop, exploring Bastyr’s herb gardens and the surrounding Saint Edwards state park. During the course of the day participants will be introduced to, touch, smell, taste and discuss 15-20 wild-growing plants that can be used for food or medicine. The focus will be on edible plants but medicinals will also be explored. Proper identification, ethical harvesting, when and where to harvest, preparation and processing of the plants will be discussed. Also included: aboriginal, traditional and contemporary ethnobotany. Recipes and resources for learning more about foraging will be provided as well.
Course Notes:
This is a field-based workshop that will take place rain or shine, so participants need to be prepared for a day outdoors.Below is a list of materials that participants should consider bringing: * Lunch and water. * Notebook and pencil/pen.The instructor recommends an artist's sketch pad with heavy paper, at least 5" x 9" in size. * Roll of scotch tape for taping plant specimens into notebook. (This is the reason for the heavy paper of the artist's sketch pad. * A hand-lens (also known as a loupe), recommended: a 10 power (10X) lens, available in the Bastyr bookstore and any place that sells scientific educational supplies.They are also sold in gem and mineral shops and online. A decent lens can be purchased for $10-15.00 and can be a valuable identification aid. * Sturdy scissors or pruning shears. * A small digging tool, like a garden trowel or dandelion digger. * Light-weight gloves. * A few plastic bags for collecting plants: quart or gallon zip-locks work great. * A camera.Good photographs are one of the best memory aids for plant identification. * Plant field guide; either a personal favorite or one that a participant wants to learn how to use.
Instructor:Evert Broderick has been leading workshops on edible and medicinal plants for the past twelve years. His primary interest in foraging for food and medicine grew out of his passion for wandering the backcountry of the Great Basin Desert and Sierra Nevada Mountains, where he has spent most of his life. His many years of personal experiences and study have been enhanced through the guidance of several influential teachers in botany, herbology and primitive living skills. Evert teaches the Plant Identification course at Bastyr University and he and his wife teach a week-long course in herbal medicine at Headwaters Outdoor School in northern California. He is the vegetable field manager at the South 47 Farm in Redmond, a local organc farm with public farmstand.
