Michael Pilarski – Friends of the Trees Society
Michael Pilarski, farmer, wild-crafter and educator, has worked with over 1,000 species of plants. He is the founder of Friends of the Trees Society (1978) and the author of books on agriculture, agroforestry, forestry and ethnobotany. He has lived in the Northwest since 1972 and is the most active permaculture teacher in the region. Michael has been studying and teaching Permaculture for 35 years. He has taught 34 Permaculture Design Courses around the US and abroad including Nepal, Belize, Hawaii, and Canada.
Port Hadlock, Washington
United States
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.friendsofthetrees.net
Social Media:
Friends of the Trees Society Facebook Page
https://www.facebook.com/Michael.Skeeter.Pilarski/
Personal Facebook Page
https://www.facebook.com/michael.pilarski.33
Global Earth Repair Conference Facebook Group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/471664256664350/
Workshop(s)
Workshop 1: The role of wildcrafting in earth repair: Restorative and sustainable wildcrafting
Michael has been commercially wildcrafting medicinal herbs for 24 years (as of 2018) and has been observing, recording and writing on how it can be done sustainably. He has studied widely on wildcrafting, ethnobotany, ethnoecology, and earth repair and how they can work together. In this workshop we explored how wildcrafting can help supply the food and health needs of local populations and how to design and implement earth repair projects that will greatly increase wildcrafting gifts from nature. The end goal being a reduction in the need for agricultural lands and a large increase in wild nature that is bountiful in wildcrafting. Similar to traditional, indigenous land stewardship.
