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Author Archives: mulysa
Echos in Time
Oregon’s oldest ancestral skills gathering is coming up July 22-28th in the Willamette Valley. I’ll be teaching a plant drawing class there. We’ll be exploring plant families in the shady flood plain and river banks and sunny meadow to learn … Continue reading
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Plant Sale at Marisha’s Nursery
Plant Sale at Marisha’s Nursery – Woodstock Neighborhood, Southeast Portland Saturday, June 23, 10 am – 3 pm 4816 SE 50th Ave., just north of Raymond St. (Please avoid alley, turn onto 50th from Raymond) Join us for our last plant sale … Continue reading
Drawing Plants: Summer Session
My next workshop is coming up in June though the Portland Underground Graduate School. It’s blend of art, science and medicine. We’ll be celebrating midsummer and learning about local, edible and medicinal plants (from my food forest guilds plus cool … Continue reading
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Spring Plant Sale!
Spring Plant Sale ~ A Fundraiser for Beach School Garden Beach Elementary School, 1710 N Humboldt St, Portland, OR 97217 Fri. May 11, 3 to 6 pm Sat. May 12, 10 am to 6 pm Resilience Design’s spring plant sale … Continue reading
Posted in Edibles, Events, Food Not Lawns, Grow Your Own, Native Plants, Permaculture, Pesticide Free, Pollinators, Seasons, Trees, Wildflowers
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Design Your Own Yard Workshop
Design Your Own Yard! Create a plan for your yard using permaculture design principles. A series of 6 collaborative work sessions will guide you through the design process, plant selection, budgeting and making a plan of action. Starting with a … Continue reading
Permaculture Workshop at Xera Plants
Planting the Multi-functional Garden: A Permaculture look at the Xera Plants catalog Update: The workshop is full! Thanks for all your interest. Check the events pages for more upcoming courses. Sat. March 24, 10 am – noon Xera Plants Retail … Continue reading
Design Your Own Yard ::: Landscape Design Coaching
Do you have ideas about how you’d like to use your yard, how it could look, feel and what kinds of plants you might like to grow – but you’re not sure how to plan it out? Resilience Design offers … Continue reading
Drawing Plants: Winter Meditation
Join me for a winter drawing retreat on Wednesday evenings in January. Unplug for a couple hours and tune-in to the often overlooked beauty of winter in Portland. Using simple materials like pencil, charcoal, and ink, we’ll trace the arc … Continue reading
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Tagged Botany, drawing, Local plants, Meditation, Mulysa Melco, Portland Underground Graduate School, Winter
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Fall Planting Time – Fruit tree sale!
This is a great time of year to get trees and shrubs settled in to the ground and I’m extending my fall planting time sale till the end of November. All Fruit Trees 20% off! Includes Asian pears, European pears, … Continue reading
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Tagged Fall planting time, Fruit Trees, Micronursery, Plant Sale
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Decoding Plants: Seeing Urban Trees with New Eyes
I’m excited to be teaching a botany/ecology course with the Portland Underground Grad School in October. This is the next course in my Decoding Plants series – this time a schedule-friendly weekend workshop! Please join us! Details below. Saturday and … Continue reading