Wild Foods of Northwest Forests, 1-4pm
Portland, Oregon.
$30 - $60 sliding scale, children pay their age, see details.
Choose either this afternoon session or the morning one from 9am-noon on the registration form. Learn about the edible plants found in deep pacific northwest forests. Spring is when wildflowers are blooming and wild greens are ripe for picking. See plants like wild violet, Solomon's seal, fairly bells, licorice fern, various fiddleheads, wild ginger and more. Learn the many ways they can be used as food. Explore ...
Wild Foods of Oxbow’s Old Growth Forest, 1-4pm
Gresham, Oregon.
$30 - $60 sliding scale, children pay their age, see details below.
Come join us to learn about trees, shrubs, and herbs of North America that are found at Oxbow Regional Park off the Sandy River Gorge. Find a diversity of edible wild plants including edible ferns, elderberries, Solomon's seal, fairly bells, nettles, red huckleberries, salmonberry, and more. Explore one of the more beautiful habitats just east of Gresham.
This workshop has about a 85% content overlap ...
Wild Foods of The Oregon Trail
Oregon City, Oregon.
$30 - $60 sliding scale, children pay their age, see details.
Join us as we meander through a variety of habitats similar to those traversed by the Lewis & Clark expedition on their way to the Pacific coast. Most of these plants can be found in your own local forests, fields, and neighborhoods. Learn identification, use, and preparation.
Oregon City itself was best known for the settlers that followed Lewis & Clark in the mid 1800s. Artifacts and exhibits featured at ...
Wild Foods of Northwest Forests, 9am-Noon
Portland, Oregon.
$30 - $60 sliding scale, children pay their age, see details.
Choose either this morning session or the afternoon one from 1-4pm on the registration form. Learn about the edible plants found in deep pacific northwest forests. Spring is when wildflowers are blooming and wild greens are ripe for picking. See plants like wild violet, Solomon's seal, fairly bells, licorice fern, various fiddleheads, wild ginger and more. Learn the many ways they can be used as food. Explore ...
Wild Foods of Vancouver Greenways
Vancouver, WA.
$30 - $60 sliding scale, children pay their age, see details.
Visit one of the many beautiful greenways snaking through Vancouver. Learn plants you pass by everyday. Most of these plants can be found in your own neighborhoods, fields, and local woodlands. See plants like sumac, cherry, rose, saskatoon, black haw, cascara, wild cucumber, nettles and more. Learn identification, use, and processing.
What to Bring
— Prepare for the weather.
— Any remaining registration ...
Wild Foods of the Springwater Corridor – Part 1
Portland, Oregon.
$30 - $60 sliding scale, children pay their age, see details.
Learn at one of Portland's favorite walkways and bike trails meandering along side of and often crossing Johnson creek with quaint bridges. This is a spring workshop that is different from Part 2 in August. This area is complete with many spring plants. See plants you pass by everyday. Most of these plants can be found in your own neighborhoods, fields, and local woodlands. Learn identification, use, and process...
Wild Foods of the Springwater Corridor – Part 2
Portland, Oregon.
$30 - $60 sliding scale, children pay their age, see details.
Learn at one of Portland's favorite walkways and bike trails meandering along side of and often crossing Johnson creek with quaint bridges. This nature trail has many tributaries which we will explore for wild edibles. This area is complete with cattail, butternut, wild rose, thimbleberry, wild currents, hawthorns, fireweed and much more. This August workshop is different from Part 1 in April. See plants you pass ...
Wild Foods of Native Americans
Portland, Oregon.
Not Offered in 2016.
Explore traditional foodways of Native North Americans. Discover foods that were used and how they were prepared and stored. Food caches, berry collecting techniques, pemmican, fruit leathers. The workshop is about how Native North Americans made a living off of the abundance of food they found in nature. How was it possible, what they did and how they managed their foods to support a complete diet for many people all year long. This core workshop ...
Nature Wonder Wild Food Weekend
Cairo, West Virginia. Join the longest running annual wild food event in North America. Held every Fall since it's inception in 1968, this event provides education and experience finding, processing, and feasting on edible wild plants and other forageables in a beautiful park setting in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. Founded by Edelene Wood, the long running president of the National Wild Foods Association, this event was inspired by followers of Euell Gibbons. Nature Wonder ...
Wapato Island Wild Food Expedition
Portland, Oregon.
$30 - $60 sliding scale, children pay their age, see details.
We'll investigate wild foods from marshes, fields, and woods -- including arrowhead (known as wapato), wocas, elderberry, Oregon grape, blackberry, wild peas, and many other plants. Sauvie Island was originally named Wappatoe Island by the Lewis and Clark expedition for its abundance of the wapato plant. While it is still early, wild blackberries might be ripe for picking while we are there. Here is a history of ...
Wild Foods in Wilderness Survival
Portland, Oregon.
Not Offered in 2016.
Learn how to determine if and when wild foods are desirable to use, which plants to seek, what are your priorities in both recreational and unplanned survival situations. See major poisonous plants. This core workshop provides information you can use in anything from normal camping and hiking to real survival situations and provides a deeper understanding of the real potential of today's use of wild foods. Anyone genuinely serious about wild foods ...
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Waubun, Minnesota.
$100, Application deadline is March 10th.
The Wild Food Summit is a multi-day, hands-on, wild food teach-in involving edible wild plant identification, harvesting and preparation. With the guidance of skilled practitioners, participants forage for food and prepare meals and learn all kinds of skills in the process.
Learn about, gather and help prepare wild foods in an outdoor encampment with access to many diverse habitats. Eat a mix of wild and conventional foods.
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Jessup Bluff’s Fennel Forest
Portland, Oregon.
$30 - $60 sliding scale, children pay their age, see details.
Visit Portland's only fennel forest, complete with plenty of salsify, wild carrot, chicory, wild sweet pea, mint, Oregon grape, elderberry, black mustard and much more. See and sample plants you pass by everyday. Most of these plants can be found in your own neighborhoods, fields, and local woodlands. Learn identification, use, and processing. Learn poison oak and poison hemlock.
What to Bring
— Prepare for ...
Wild Foods of Oxbow’s Old Growth Forest, 9am-Noon
Gresham, Oregon.
$30 - $60 sliding scale, children pay their age, see details below.
Come join us to learn about trees, shrubs, and herbs of North America that are found at Oxbow Regional Park off the Sandy River Gorge. Find a diversity of edible wild plants including edible ferns, elderberries, Solomon's seal, fairly bells, nettles, red huckleberries, salmonberry, and more. Explore one of the more beautiful habitats just east of Gresham.
This workshop has about a 85% content overlap ...
