Northwest Herbal Fair 2026

Northwest Herbal Fair ~ is back!

Sunday, August 23, 2026
8:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Location: Finnriver Farm & Cidery
124 Center Road
Chimacum, Washington 98325

Located on Washington's beautiful Olympic Peninsula, just outside Port Townsend.

A Special One-Day Gathering

The Northwest Herbal Fair has traditionally been a full weekend event. This year we're keeping things simpler while preserving the spirit of the fair we all love. After taking a pause in 2025, we're excited to gather again and reconnect with our community.

While this year's event is shorter, you'll still find many of the elements that have made the fair a beloved annual tradition.

Join herbalists, plant lovers, healers, growers, and community members for a day of learning, connection, and celebration.

Offering:

  • Herbal product vendors

  • Workshops & guided plant walks

  • Live music throughout the day

  • Community circles, singing, and dancing

  • Food vendors

  • Networking

  • Northwest herbal community reunion

  • Now hosted at Finnriver cidery

Admission: $33 per adult
Work-trade and scholarship opportunities available, stay tuned.

If you are coming from afar and wish to camp the night before/after we will arrange a camping area, (not at Finnriver). 

More info coming soon!

Additional presenters and vendors will be announced as they are confirmed.

  • Keynote Speaker

    Nicole Telkes

    Nicole Telkes, RH (AHG), is an award-winning clinical herbalist, author, and educator with extensive experience in botanical medicine, plant conservation, and community health efforts. Read more…

  • Presenters

    • Scott Kloos

    • Tamara

    • Dr. Jenn Dazey, ND

    • Denise Joy

    • Michael Pilarski “Skeeter”

  • Vendors

    • School of Forest Medicine (Scott Kloos)

    • Bastyr University (Dr. Jenn Dazey, ND)

    • Mountain Spirit Botanicals (Denise Joy)

    • Friends of the Trees Botanicals

    • Ramble Botanicals

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