Medicinal Garden Plants Workshop

And Music Performance

Saturday April 21st

2pm-4.30pm 

Come and learn how to plan your own medicinal garden from planting to final product.

You will learn how to grow, harvest and prepare your own medicine. We will talk about 6 plants in depth and learn their:

-growing requirements

-harvest times and methods

-medicinal and culinary uses

-preparation methods

The speaker Mikaela is an avid plant lover who has travelled extensively, learning about plants from all around the world. She has taken a 2 year wilderness guide course in Sweden, worked as a park ranger and research assistant in Australia, and has taken herbal medicine courses on Vancouver Island. She is now running a business out of Vernon called Herbal Myth, where she does hikes and workshops on plants and their uses.

 

 Combined with the workshop we will hear music from a new album by PM Glimm. He plays thoughtful folk music. His lyrics focus on personal and social responsibility, conscious environmental stewardship and everyday life. Peter is passionate about DIY and self- sufficiency and is in the process of starting up a bio-dynamic farm in the North Okanagan.

Cost: $10 per person. 
Contact: mikicannon@gmail.com or 250-306-1915
                                                       
At Okanagan Centre for Spiritual Living 2913 29th Ave

Marshall field interpretive hike for kids

Come join us for a 2 hour interpretive walk at Marshall field.
During the time with the children we will learn through games and group observation. 

Specifically we will:
-walk along the creek and learn about the vegetation and the animals here.
-talk about the beaver and the muskrat, how to tell them apart, what their tracks look like and what they eat.
-observe a willow tree and the signs of the beaver's gnawing.
-learn more about willow and its uses.
-identify rose and hawthorn by their thorns and learn uses for these plants.
-play a game where we learn about mice and voles and what their predators are.
-take a closer look at cattail and learn about its uses.
-discuss which birds migrate and which ones stay.
-see if we can spot a red winged blackbird and learn to identify it by its call. We will learn more about this particular bird. At the end we reiterate what we learnt and what we enjoyed the most.

Meet at the tennis courts at Marshall field.
Monday March 5th 10.00am- 12.00 pm
Tuesday March 6th 10.00am-12.00pm
Wednesday March 7th 10.00am-12.00pm
Be sure to dress for the weather.
Price: $7 /child ($5 if child brings adult along)
Limited spaces available. Pre-booking required.
Contact Mikaela Cannon at 
Email: mikicannon@gmail.com (please leave telephone number)
Tel: 250 306 1915