Northwest Herbal Fair 2026
August 23 -- 8:00 am to 6:00 pm
Finnriver Farm & Cidery
124 Center Road, Chimacum, WA
Olympic Peninsula (near Port Townsend)
* Lots of herbal product vendors.
* Workshops and Plant Walks
* Keynote Speaker: Nicole Telkes, Bastyr University and Wildflower School of Botanical Medicine
* Circles, singing & dancing
* Musicians
* Food vendors
* Networking galore,
* Northwest herbal community reunion.
* On-site bar of Finnriver ciders and beers. New feature!
$33/adult
Worktrade and scholarships available.
Northwest Herbal Fairs are usually a whole weekend. This year we had to scale back, but we didn’t want to miss another year of seeing our friends and networking. We skipped 2025 after 4 years of gathering in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.
This means we have the flavor of our usual fair, but much less expense. If you are coming from afar and wish to camp the night before/after we will arrange a camping area, (not at Finnriver).
Contact: Skeeter Michael Pilarski,
friendsofthetrees@yahoo.com 360-643-9178
Workshops by (as of 1/30, 2026):
Scott Kloos
Tamara
Dr. Jenn Dazey, ND.
Denise Joy
Michael Pilarski
Vendors: as of 1/30, 2026
School of Forest Medicine, Scott Kloos
Bastyr University, Dr. Jenn Dazey, N.D.
Mountain Spirit Botanicals, Denise Joy
Watch this Podcast with co-founder Michael Pilarski explaining the value of the Northwest Herbal Fair, offering remedy recipes, and much more:
A love letter to herbalists
Let me count the ways that I love you. I love you because you are primary caretakers of people’s health. Because you carry on the millennia-old traditions of healing. Herbs were the first medicines and they still work today. You are the current editions of the shaman, medicine-women and medicine-men of the past. You are tradition carriers. You serve the people.
Most of the herbalists I know ply their trade out of love for people. You truly care about others and want to help them. Love is why I grow herbs for people, for herbalists and for the herbal trade. Herbs are my main income and money is an incentive for me, but underlying it is love. Love for herbalists, love for people, love for plants and love for this beautiful planet.
I love the plants I grow, wildcraft and work with.
Love for the herbalists is why I organize the Northwest Herbal Fair and other herb gatherings. I have organized hundreds of herbal events, large and small. I do it as a service to the herbalists and through them to the community in general. Putting on gatherings is a lot of work, stress and risk of financial loss. I certainly don’t do it for the money. Most often I break even and sometimes lose money. I try to keep admission costs low, but there are a lot of expenses to cover.
I have met thousands of herbalists over the years through putting on herbal events, trainings and as clients of my herb business. Many of you have become friends. That is one facet of the Northwest Herbal Fair. It is a reunion of hundreds of herbal friends.
Weaving the network that serves us all. There is no substitute for getting together in person, shaking hands, hugging and looking into each other eyes and reading body language. Zoom, phone calls and social media help us to communicate but getting together in person is the best of all. It feeds our spirit. Feeds our hearts. I offer the Northwest Herbal Fair to you as a gift, as a service, out of love.
A friend of the herbalists,
Michael Pilarski
Co-Founder & Lead Coordinator
From Michael “Skeeter” Pilarski
