Study Agroecology and Herbal Medicine at Gill Tract Farm

 

Get your hands in the dirt! Check out these in-depth in-person learning experiences offered at Gill Tract Farm in Albany this summer.

Introduction to Urban Agroecology

Learn about the farm’s agroecological practices, such as intercropping, composting, cover cropping, hedgerows, pollinator plants, and building seed banks. Multiple members of the farm community will give demonstrations, instructions, and recipes for ways to apply these practices to one’s growing space, large or small. Community brainstorming will focus on methods and ways these spaces can build solidarity with other social movements and deepen one’s political framework. Keynote speaker Miguel Altieri is a leading agroecologist, professor emeritus at UC Berkeley, and Gill Tract farmer for over 30 years.

Introduction to Urban Agroecology
Friday June 25, 5–8pm and Saturday & Sunday, June 26 & 27, 9am–5:30pm
Gill Tract Community Farm
1050 San Pablo Ave, Albany
Cost: $150. Info and registration: here

 

Introduction to Herbal Medicine and Allyship

Learn to observe, cultivate, harvest, process, honor, and consume medicinal herbs, especially those that support the immune and nervous systems. In addition to providing herbal education, Gill Tract herbalists will instruct on self-consultation, garden design, and hands-on medicine-making techniques using essences, teas, vinegars, tinctures, oils, salves, and syrups. Students are encouraged to share their own experiences and herbal knowledge to build allyship with these sacred herbs. Facilitators offer a spectrum of healing modalities, including clinical and folk herbalism, agroecology, naturopathy, permaculture design, street medicine, community organizing, reiki, and nutrition.

Introduction to Herbal Medicine and Allyship
Friday July 30, 5–8pm and Saturday & Sunday, July 31 & August 1, 9am–5:30pm
UC Gill Tract Community Farm
1050 San Pablo Ave, Albany
Cost: $150. Info and registration:  here

 

Indigenous Lifeways and Two-Spirit Medicine
This course for youth is by invitation only.