A Wild Food Experience

                                                                                       A Wild Foods Experience

How to use wild plants in every day life

Learn to Identify, forage, prepare, cook and ferment wild plants

Wild foraged snacks provided

Join us for a day in the garden, learning various types of common edible plants and how to use them.

This workshop will give you the knowledge needed to forage ethically & incorporate these wild greens into every day cooking in a way that tastes delicious.

The day will look like this

·  Arrival and introduction on the philosophies of using wild foods in daily living

·  Guided plant walk & forage, how to ID common plants that you can use for food & medicine, experiential learning & foraging

·  Tea & snacks provided using foraged plants (learning cooking & preparation methods for wild foods)

.  Lessons on how to make medicine balms and wild ferments

What you will you learn?

·  How to identify common wild plants

·  How to make medicinal healing balms with wild plants & beeswax

·  An array of wild foods that you can eat

·  How to prepare & cook with wild foods & make them taste delicious

·  Ethical foraging practises to ensure you are strengthening your local ecology rather than harming it

·  How to make wild food ferments

·  How to make wild mead

·  How to be in relationship with your local ecology

What will you taste?

·  Freshly foraged wild plant leaves

·  Sauteed Wild Greens

·  Bush tea

·  Wild Honey Mead

·  Bunya nuts

·  Wild Greens Pesto

·  Home cooked sprouted buckwheat sourdough

What will you take home?

·  Information sheet on Wild Greens & how to identify

·  Home made Wild plant healing balm

·  Bush Tea from locally foraged plants

·  Dried Wild Herb Mix

·  An abundance of new knowledge on how to be In relationship with your ecology

When? 26th March Saturday

Location: Fanelli Organic Farm Mangrove Mountain

Cost: $100

Facilitators

Will Bettison (Wild Beings) has a passion for deepening his relationship with the ecology around him. He uses wild plants in daily life as food and medicine & through experience has built a strong friendship with many of the plants we see around us. He has experience treating his own wounds using various bush medicines that he has either been shown or researched himself & making healing balms to treat close friends. His enthusiasm for Wild plants has inspired those who have attended previous workshops he has facilitated.

Eva (Wild Beings) has been delving into bush foods & medicine for the past few years. With a passion to live simply in symbiosis with the land around us & achieve optimal wellness & health through what nature provides. Eva has delved into the world of wild fermenting recently & is excited to share the art of wild mead fermenting.

We acknowledge the traditional custodians on the lands we walk upon & the age old wisdom of the earth that has been passed down. This knowledge is not new knowledge, we acknowledge the ancient roots of this earth based culture & wish to inspire others to connect with the earth.