Elderberry Wisdom Farm is recruiting interns for its Summer and Fall Native American TEK Habitat Restoration Internship Project. We are currently recruiting Native American and other under-represented individuals who are pursuing conservation career pathways. This opportunity for culturally tailored habitat...
Elderberry Wisdom Farm Volunteer Opportunities Elderberry Wisdom Farm is welcoming volunteers to work with our team of interns this spring and summer as we repot the remaining 1,000 native tree and shrub species from a 1,500 plant order, and enjoy...
By Mary Lou Mills | 01 May 2025 The Seven Commandments of the Sacred Buffalo Calf Woman is the biography of the Lakota medicine man and spiritual leader Martin High Bear. As the oldest son in his family, Martin High...
We partnered with Oregon Tilth, Rodale Institute and Dry Farm Institute to hold a Field Walk last week. About a dozen guests joined us for a discussion of Sambucus nigra ssp Cerulea (Blue Elderberry) followed by a walk through our...
EWF’s Founding Director Rose High Bear (Deg Hit’an Dine, Inupiaq) has been invited to attend the 19th Annual Elderberry Conference at University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri June 18-20. She will participate on a panel with University of California -Davis...
Our black tailed deer family roams through at least twice a day these days and seems comfortable here. Last Sunday afternoon, three young deer came through nibbling on the blue elderberry patch as they passed through. They paused for a...
We were excited to celebrate our new partnership with Pudding River WC by working with their team at Coolidge-McClain Park. We have been planning projects with their Director Kurt Benning for about 18 months now. Their latest project is building...
By Dawn Lowe (Mohawk, Cherokee, Apache, Hawaiian, Blackfoot) TEK Educator/Mentor They did it! Our Spring 2025 Elderberry Wisdom Farm interns celebrated the conclusion of the Spring TEK Workforce Development Internship on Thursday, May 29, 2025. We asked them for feedback...
By Dawn Lowe (Mohawk, Cherokee, Apache, Hawaiian, Blackfoot) TEK Educator/Mentor Summer is approaching, and Elderberry Wisdom Farm has special opportunities to offer to volunteers who live near our farm south of Salem in rural Marion County. If you want to...
Updated: Sep 21, 2025 Here at Elderberry Wisdom Farm, we are all about blue elderberry and its long summer of gifting its medicinal flowers and berries! The blossoms started to appear in mid-May and continue to expand through the mature...
Learn about our work with the National Tree Equity Coaching Network and teachings from Robin Wall Kimmerer.
Updated: Sep 21, 2025 Renee Dompier (Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Indians) Native Plant Nursery Assistant I’m Renee Dompier, member of the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Indians. I’ve lived in the Willamette Valley of Oregon most of my life....
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By Rose High Bear (Deg Hit’an Dine, Inupiaq) Founding Director Our team at Elderberry Wisdom Farm was excited to greet eight talented young Indigenous interns earlier this summer. They completed their training and prepared their final presentations on August 28....
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Hear from Joaquin about the intern's important work over the summer with our partners.
Renee Dompier (Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians) Native Plant Nursery Assistant When I first became an intern at EWF, I heard that deer that would walk through the yard and nibble on the elderberry plants and anything...
Dawn Lowe (Mohawk, Apache, Hawaiian, Blackfoot) TEK Workforce Educator Mentor Elderberry Wisdom Farm’s organic farm intern team harvested from some of our vegetable beds last week. They were able to take our fourth or fifth round of harvest to the...
Renee Dompier (Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians) Native Plant Nursery Assistant I hate to drive past any kind of furry friend that has been hit by a vehicle and left alongside the road. It seems like it...
By Rose High Bear (Deg Hit’an Dine, Inupiaq) Founding Director Elderberry Wisdom Farm is excited to announce the expansion of our TEK Workforce Development Internships for Native Americans and other interns interested in conservation careers. In 2026 we will offer...
Joaquin Ocana Native Plant Nursery Coordinator The last few months have been some of the most exciting and eventful of the year! Some of our summer cohort loved it so much here that they agreed to extend their internship through...
By Rose High Bear (Deg Hit’an Dine, Inupiaq) Founding Director Last year, we gave cases of the Martin High Bear book to tribal colleges throughout the Northern Great Plains and other tribal locations. The Seven Commandments of the Sacred Buffalo...
Joaquin Ocana (Kaqchikel Peoples), Native Plant Nursery Coordinator Dear readers, As we reach the end of our fall internship and prepare for our first Winter TEK Internship, we have been focusing on 2026 expansion of our Native American Plant Nursery...
By Rose High Bear (Deg Hit’an Dine, Inupiaq) Founding Director First Friday Appearance – Marion Soil and Water Conservation District EWF’s Rose High Bear has been invited to appear on First Friday at the Marion Soil and Water Conservation District...
By Rose High Bear (Deg Hit’an Dine, Inupiaq) Founding Director Elderberry Wisdom Farm Logo We are excited to announce expansion of Elderberry Wisdom Farm’s TEK Workforce Development Internships for Native Americans and other interns interested in strengthening their conservation career...
By Rose High Bear (Deg Hit’an Dine, Inupiaq), Founding Director Elderberry and Immune Health The public is growing increasingly aware that high levels of polyphenols and other powerful plant compounds in blue elderberry support our immune systems and reduce the...
By Rose High Bear (Deg Hit’an Dine, Inupiaq), Founding Director EWF is providing its own brand of locally sourced elderberry syrup, Wisdom of the Elderberry Syrup, at the Salem Holiday Market December 12-14. This will launch Blue Elderberry Farm LLC’s sales...
Joaquin Ocana (Kaqchikel Peoples), Native Plant Nursery Coordinator The last few weeks at the farm have been some of the busiest and most exciting of the year. With all the support and hard work from our team of interns and...
By Rose High Bear (Deg Hit’an Dine, Inupiaq), Founding Director EWF was featured for the second time in 2025 in Civil Eats this month. They are one of those generous publications that offer free access to their articles without requiring...
By Rose High Bear (Deg Hit’an Dine, Inupiaq), Founding Director Becoming an Elderberry Wisdom Farm founding donor means that you make a small monthly donation to Elderberry Wisdom Farm. In return, the funds are used to recruit and provide stipends...
By Rose High Bear (Deg Hit’an Dine, Inupiaq), Founding Director Our newest Urban Forestry team just completed two urban forestry tree planting trainings this month, one with Friends of Trees and the second with Oregon Department of Forestry: Urban and...
Renee Dompier (Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Indians of Oregon) Native Plant Nursery Assistant We are having our first ever six-month Winter TEK Internship and completely filling our classroom with an exciting cohort of gifted and enthusiastic interns!
Photo of Martin High Bear and his horse For the past two internships, we have gifted copies of the Martin High Bear biography to our interns and assigned chapters for them to study. Then during our classes, we......
By Rose High Bear (Deg Hit’an Dine, Inupiaq), Founding Director We released the Elderberry Wisdom Farm 2025 Annual Report in December. Sam, our filmmaker, drove down to the farm to record us and then he drove back home to edit...
Joaquin Ocana (Kaqchikel Peoples), Native Plant Nursery Coordinator As we break into the new year and the plans for our native plant nursery continue to flourish, we are very excited to share our partnership and collaboration with Geercrest Farm, the...
