Michael “Skeeter” Pilarski
Friends of the Trees Society, Global Earth Repair Foundation – Pacific Northwest, USA
Our founder, Michael Pilarski, has been making waves in the international ecosystem restoration and regenerative agriculture for decades. Michael is a regenerative farmer by trade, teaching hundreds through his example garden at Finn River Cidery in Chimacum, WA. His sustainable herb business, Friends of the Trees Botanicals, shares its name with Friends of the Trees Society, which he founded in 1978.
Since 1988 he has taught 36 permaculture design courses in the US and abroad. His specialties include earth repair, agriculture, seed collecting, nursery sales, tree planting, fruit picking, permaculture, agroforestry, forestry, ethnobotany, medicinal herb growing, hoeing and wildcrafting. He has hands-on experience with over 1000 species of plants. He is a prolific gathering organizer and likes group singing.
In 2019, Michael founded the Global Earth Repair Foundation and gathered over six hundred visionaries, activists, ecologists, indigenous leaders, farmers and other international way-showers to participate in a five-day conference in Port Townsend, WA. Having trained directly in the early days of permaculture with both Bill Mollison and David Holmgren, his permaculture knowledge is legendary, and he’s written voluminously on these and many other subjects. His article, A Carbon Sequestration Proposal for the World, outlines the effort needed to literally repair the Earth, complete with realistic proposals concerning budgets and man hours.
Website: http://www.friendsofthetrees.net/articles…
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/michael.pilarski.33, https://www.facebook.com/FriendsOfTheTreesSociety
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/friendsofthetreesbotanicals/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-pilarski-09734673/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/friend_of_trees
Videos:
1) How to create and Restore Robust Ecosystems – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTf3Auku6mA&t=1939s
2) How to Establish Plants in the Landscape – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BD02ajprGQ
