All About Tree Care: Tree Tending 101 & Making Tree Medicine

On Saturday, May 30th Wild Potomac is joined by herbalist Emma Taylor from and arborist Dave Yake to lead a workshop about how we can tend to the trees around us, and be tended to by them ourselves.

In this hands-on workshop we will be working with a small section of trees in Cumberland, learning how to assess their health and what is needed to best support their growth. Participants will learn the foundations of tree care and be able to apply those skills to the trees for practice. After we do some tending to the trees, we'll be led in making a few basic medicines from trees that are common to Cumberland. You'll leave with a tree medicine zine created by Emma Taylor that shares more recipes, and some medicine samples of your own!

Join this workshop to build skills around how to assess tree health, perform tree care on small trees, and make medicines from certain species. All ages are welcome. Instructions, tools and samples of tree teas will be provided!

About Emma Taylor

About Dave Yake

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This is one of a series of events Wild Potomac is organizing this year in Cumberland - all dedicated to learning about, planting, caring for, and harvesting food from native trees and shrubs!

Join these events to get more connected to your local ecosystem and share widely with anyone who may want to come, of any age! All events are free and will have snacks and tools provided.

Stay tuned for the next events on Facebook and Eventbrite.

This project has been funded wholly or in part by the United States Department of Agriculture – Forestry Service under assistance agreement 23-DG-11094200-379 to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.

Chesapeake Bay Trust

Maryland Forest Service

Maryland Department of Natural Resources

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