Intro to Foraging Wild Foods & Medicine

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 outside, 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 of using wild foods in daily living. Ethical & safe foraging. 

·  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)

.  Lesson on how to make wild 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

·  Processing and cooking with Bunyas

·  How to be in relationship with your local ecology

What will you taste?

·  Freshly foraged wild plant leaves

·  Sauteed Wild Greens

·  Bush tea

·  Wild Greens Pesto

·  Bunyas

What will you take home?

·  Information sheet on Wild Greens & how to identify

·  Home made Wild plant healing balm

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

·  Bunyas to eat & plant

When? 15th March Sunday

Location: Wild Feather Studio, Holgate.

Cost: $100

Facilitators

Wild Beings, run a nature-based organisation focusing on educating folks on earth-based skills & practises. 

How can we align our life & values on decisions that conserve the ecology rather than destroy it?

Rewilding has the answers to much of the ecological-disconnect we face in modern times. 

Learning an earth-skill like foraging is a great intro into learning how to be more self sufficient & empowered with food & medicine choices. 

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.