CREATING A BACKYARD APOTHECARY with Gradey Proctor
Would you like to learn how to grow medicine in your own backyard? To create a productive, easy to maintain landscape that attracts both pollinators and health?
Join Gradey from the Medicine Garden as we delve into gardening for medicine! This class will take you on a journey through some of Gradey’s favorite plants that are easy to grow, safe to use, and cover basic health needs. Along the way, we will learn where they like to grow, how to properly harvest, and propagation tips galore.
Discounted plant starts will be available after the class so you can put what you’ve learned in class to use and continue learning from the plants themselves!
About Gradey and the
Medicine Garden
“Our goal at the Medicine Garden is to empower our community through plants. We do this by offering organically grown Medicinal Plant Starts, Seed and Medicine at our Monthly Medicinal Marketplaces, Herb Shops and local Nurseries in the Portland area. In addition, we offer educational community gatherings, classes and garden consultations to help us deepen our relationship with the plants and place. Our small-scale approach allows us to sink into the plants’ needs as well as our communities.
Medicine Garden was started by Gradey Proctor. Gradey is a botanist with a relentless passion for the flora and fungi of Oregon's forests. Born in a place without intact ecosystems Gradey fell hopelessly in love with the Northwest when he arrived in the 90's. Gradey studied at the Columbine’s School honing his botanical skills, and has since worked for Bark, a nonprofit that advocates and protects Mt. Hood. His love of plants spread to nurseries, CSA farms and his own yard where he raises medicinal plants starts. Now Gradey works and lives on 7 acres of Clackamas Land, continually exploring ways where ecology and gardening meet. Gradey has taught gardening, botany and ecology at the Arctos School of Herbal and Botanical Studies for the last 15 years.”
