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Learn how to find, dig, transport, clean, and prepare butter, steamer, and gaper clams during one of the lowest tides in 2013. Learn gathering regulations and limits. Learn how Native Americans gathered these same clams. The times we meet are dictated by when the tides are low enough to for us to reach the clams.

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Dr Kallas will lead an expedition to the Pacific coast where participants will learn about, identify, and gather samples of wild sea vegetables and seashore edibles during low tide. Find sea vegetables including nori, kombu, sea lettuce, fucus, alaria, laminaria, stir fry seaweed and more. We’ll also find, discuss and gather mussels, barnacles, and other coastal edibles.

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Make arrowheads

Earth Skills Are Easy is a series of one day workshops on earth skills also refered to as “primitive skills”, “ancestral skills”, “survival skills”, or “bushcraft”. These skills are often perceived as something only a hard-core wilderness survival skills expert can produce. This series goes through many of the basic crafts of earth skills and focuses on showing just how easy these skills actually are. We focus on one craft per workshop. Participants will leave class with a finished product after just one day of crafting.

The location, a material’s list and other class details will be e-mailed to you upon completing your registration.

In this hands-on workshop you will learn the basics of spring pest and disease management and fruit thinning to increase the health and abundance of local fruit trees! This fun workshop will be an opportunity to gain a basic understanding of common fruit tree pests and diseases of the Portland area and important springtime management strategies as well as the importance and how-to of fruit thinning.

Click here to visit “Portland Fruit Tree Project” and to register for the event

In this hands-on workshop you will learn the basics of spring pest and disease management and fruit thinning to increase the health and abundance of local fruit trees! This fun workshop will be an opportunity to gain a basic understanding of common fruit tree pests and diseases of the Portland area and important springtime management strategies as well as the importance and how-to of fruit thinning.

Click here to visit “Portland Fruit Tree Project” and to register for the event

All transactions must take place INSIDE the building. NO EXCEPTIONS
 
No loaded firearms, magazines or speed loaders allowed, with the exception of law enforcement and private security officers in contract with C.W.I.
 
ALL FIREARMS MUST HAVE THEIR ACTIONS TIED OPEN. Where that is impractical due to design the action MUST be tied to make it inoperable and conspicuous by visual inspection. All detached magazines MUST be removed from a firearm before it is placed on a table
 
NO bulk gunpowder or explosive bullets. NO loose cartridges or loaded clips near firearms for which they are intended.
 
Any extended bayonets attached to firearms MUST be scabbard. If a bayonet has no scabbard, it must be folded against the stock or removed.
 
No person under 18 of age will be admitted, unless accompanied by an adult, parent or guardian.
 
No audio/visual equipment allowed without permission of show management. Collectors West reserves the right to all audio/visual reproductive equipment used in or around its show property.
 
Show security reserves the right to inspect all bags, packages or containers entering or exiting the show.
 
RV parking in designated RV parking area only and in accordance with the venue regulation.

Learn how to find, dig, transport, clean, and prepare cockle clams during one of the lowest tides in 2013. Learn gathering regulations and limits. Learn how Native Americans gathered these same clams. The times we meet are dictated by when the tides are low enough to for us to reach the clams. This is the last clamming event we offer for the season.

 Visit John Kallas website for full details.

Visit an organic farm and make a delectable wild gourmet salad on the spot with other participants. We’ll harvest traditional European edibles (growing as weeds) that the farmers would be pulling. Learn how to identify common, plentiful, nutritious, and flavorful wild vegetables in this adventure. Get real hands-on experience with plants you’ll see on a farm and in your own garden. Take advantage of these readily available sources of nutrients, and dietary variety. Traditional wild Eruopean edibles (gourmet greens and vegetables) plant themselves, enjoy the rich moist growing environment of the garden, and provide many seasons of foods that can add meal options you never dreamed of before. Once your learn these wild foods you can change from a “weeding” to a “harvesting” mentality in your own garden, yard, and neighborhood……..

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Come join us learn about wild fruits and other edible plant parts found in northwest forests. Summer is when many wild fruits are ripe for picking. See and learn about plants like huckleberry, salmonberry, oregon grape, bunchberry, elderberry, gooseberry, wild current, hawthorne, salal, thimbleberry, fairybells, saskatoons, Indian plum, among others, as well as some poisonous berry producing plants. Explore one of the more beautiful forests in Portland’s own back yard.

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In this hands-on workshop you will learn the basic techniques of bud grafting (budding). This method of grafting will allow you to combine different varieties and species of fruit into a single tree more quickly and with greater success rates than other grafting methods. This fun workshop will be an opportunity for you to gain a basic understanding of different bud grafting methods and when they should be used.

Click here to visit “Portland Fruit Tree Project” and to register for the event