Willow Workshop with Kat High

Discover, enjoy and learn how to grow our native Salix (willow) in this lecture, demonstration and hands-on workshop! Learn about willow harvesting techniques and create your own willow seed beater for gathering seed in your own native plant garden.

Kat High is a Native American of Hupa descent. She lectures widely on the ethnobotany of California native plants. Kat has been trained by traditional elders in Native American land management traditions, now referred to as TEK (Traditional Ecological Knowledge), and is a teacher on adapting those principles to the modern world. Her “gathering garden” was featured in the KCET award-winning documentary “Tending the Wild”.