Michael Pilarski has been farming and gardening organically since 1972 with medicinal herbs being his main crops for the last 25 years. Michael has been creating medicinal forests for over 40 years and has worked with over 1,000 species of plants. He has taught extensively in the fields of regenerative farming, permaculture, medicinal herbs, native plants, plant propagation, ethnobotany, forestry, agroforestry and related disciplines. He has taught permaculture classes in Washington State since 1981. His publications include: Growing and Wildcrafting Medicinal Plants in the Pacific Northwest, Subtropical and Tropical Medicinal Plants Checklist: 2001, Agroforestry Guide for the Hawaiian Islands, Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology Resource Guide, and Creating New Forests for Medicinal Plants.
