Delilah Miske

Diversified Vegetable Apprenticeship
Katydid Hill

Farm stat: Helped grow, harvest, and dry about 1,000 pounds of dried medicinal plants
Favorite farm task: Seeding or tractor cultivation
Least favorite farm task: Punching holes in the header of irrigation pipes
Favorite beneficial creature: Praying mantis or swallow tails

Delilah participated in Pasa’s Diversified Vegetable Apprenticeship program at Katydid Hill Farm, learning the ins and outs of running and managing a farm. She got her start making tinctures and working with herbal medicine, prompting her to search for a deeper connection and understanding of where the plants came from. Delilah remembers her time harvesting milky oats by hand and learning how to check the ripeness by squeezing the latex out of the pods.

After graduating, she will be making a pivot and working on copywriting projects, in the hopes of writing for conservation organizations in the near future. In the long term, she would like to obtain land in the Appalachian mountains to grow woodland medicinals such as ginseng, goldenseal, reishi, cordyceps, and so much more.

“I learned how to do things that once intimidated me, confidently.”

For more on Delilah, take a look at this in-depth interview.