Location: Olympic Peninsula (Hoh Rainforest and Lake Ozette). Overnight camp.

• Travel to Hoh Rainforest (Leave Friday evening)
• Harvesting plants on the annual harvest schedule for May
• Mushroom harvesting
• Plant walks focusing on the old growth rainforest and coastal ecologies
• Edible seaweed harvesting
• Beneficial insects and pests (identification, the plants which attract them and their roles in the ecosystem.
• Making medicines using harvested plants

Location: Student designed trip. Suggested by the 2015 Ethnobotany Immersion students. At this point in the year, students have a pretty good grasp on the plants in Washington and are allowed to pick the ecologies that they would like to visit as a group). Overnight camp.

• Travel to group destination
• Harvesting plants on the annual harvest schedule for April
• Making and processing medicines
• Making primitive utensils over the evening campfire
• Plant walks in designated location
• Sustainably growing mulch plants for soil building
• Plant propagation (division, layering)

Location: Deception Pass State Park. Overnight camp.

• Travel to Deception Pass
• Harvesting plants on the annual harvest schedule for March
• Plant walks studying coastal ecology
• Edible seaweeds
• Grafting
• Making medicines from harvested plants
• Phytoremediation
• Transplanting seed starts

Location: Raven's Roots Campus

• Harvesting plants on the annual harvest schedule for February
• Basketry (using various materials)
• Fish hooks and fish baskets
• Making yarn from natural fibers
• Natural dyes
• Making paper 

Location: Raven's Roots Campus

• Harvesting plants on the annual harvest schedule for January
• Microgreens
• Season extension techniques 
• Greenhouse construction and management
• Soil building and garden preparation
• Composting systems
• Compost tea
• Swale design and construction. Water catchment systems.
• Plant propagation from seed (scarification, stratification and using compost teas)

Location: Raven's Roots Campus

• Pruning
• Plant propagation (hardwood cuttings)
• Personal care products (soaps, lotions, toothpaste deodorant and more)
• Harvesting plants on the annual harvest schedule for December
• Winter tree and shrub identification
• Introduction to the Soil Food Web
• Studying soil microbiology using a microscope
• Making lye

Location: Raven's Roots Campus

• Introduction to natural medicine making
• Tinctures, salves
• Teas, decoctions and infusions
• Comprehensive natural medicine cabinet. Using herbs and mushrooms harvested from the Pacific Northwest we'll build this cabinet for you throughout the course of the year
• Harvesting plants on the annual harvest schedule for November
• Fermentations (Lactoferments, kombucha/jun and more)
• Food preservation (canning, drying and smoking)
• Processing and storing herbs
• Biochar and it's role in building healthy soils

Location: Southwestern Washington (Ridgefield and Nisqually). Overnight camp.

• Travel south to Nisqually
• Plant walks covering edible, medicinal and wildlife plants as well as utilitarian uses. Focus on oak and prarie ecosystems
• Harvesting plants on the annual harvest schedule for October
• Making plant based, natural ink
• Processing and storing acorns
• Harvest edible and medicinal mushrooms
• Natural medicines: Understanding human physiology

Location: Methow Valley (Eastern Washington). Overnight camp.

• Travel to the Methow Valley
• Cordage
• Wild harvesting foods and medinces on annual harvest schedule for September
• Seed saving
• Introduction to plant/nature sit spots. Learning how to observe not only the plants, but how they interact with the ecology around them.
• Plant walks covering edible, medicinal and wildlife plants as well as utilitarian uses.
• Botanical terms and plant family identification tips
• Microclimates

Location: Mt. Baker - Heather Meadows. Overnight camp.

• Introductions and overview of the course
• Permaculture tour of our campus farm
• Travel to Mt. Baker - Heather Meadows
• Harvesting ethics
• Primitive cooking techniques (utilizing plants)
• Make a wild dinner harvested during the day at the evening camp fire
• Annual harvest schedule (outlining our harvests for the entire immersion course)
• Harvest plants on the annual harvest schedule for August
• Subalpine plant walks where we'll discuss edible, medicinal, wildlife attracting and utilitarian uses for plants
• Introduction to plant based medicine: Emphasis on safety