$35 – $60 sliding scale, children pay their age, see details.
This workshop covers many of the plants seen in the books: Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods From Dirt to Plate, and Wild Food Foraging to Feasting by John Kallas. Visit an organic farm and make a delectable wild gourmet salad on the spot with other participants. We’ll harvest fresh delicious wild edibles that the farmers would be pulling out as weeds. Learn how to identify common, plentiful, nutritious, and flavorful wild vegetables and fruits in this adventure. Get real hands-on experience with plants you’ll see on a farm and in your own garden. Take advantage of these readily available sources of nutrients, and dietary variety. Traditional wild European edibles (gourmet greens and vegetables) plant themselves, enjoy the rich moist growing environment of the garden, and provide many seasons of foods that can add meal options you never dreamed of before. Once your learn these wild foods you can change from a “weeding” to a “harvesting” mentality in your own garden, yard, and neighborhood.
— Prepare for the weather, we’ll be outdoors the whole time.
— Clothing appropriate for harvesting on a farm, comfortable walking, hiking shoes or boots. No flip flops.
— A salad bowl, a fork, sharp scissors (preferably in a holster), a white plastic grocery bag or light colored reusable grocery bag, and a spray mister (like you would spray house plants with to keep them moist). Salad dressing if you have special food requirements.
— Money if you want to buy John’s books ($25-30 each [sliding scale] list price is $28). We accept cash, check, or CC ($1 extra each book for CC fee). Edible Wild Plants, Volumes 1 and 2 are available after each workshop to look at or buy.
— Any remaining registration materials that you need to hand in.
This workshop is at the Cully Organic Farm behind the Trinity Lutheran Christian Church, 5520 NE Killingsworth St, Portland, OR 97218. Here is a MAP to the church. Park at the very back of their parking lot. The farm is across the soccer field. We’ll meet there.
Sliding Scale Economics
Due to hard economic times for some, sliding scales are offered to support individual financial circumstances. We ask participants to pay what they feel they can afford within the range offered for each workshop. You decide what to pay using an honest assessment of your individual circumstances. We do not ask anyone to explain their very personal decision. The high end is a very reasonable price for these quality workshops for those who are doing well in this economy. Groups must contact us for circumstance-specific rates. Rendezvous have their own rates.
Discounts
$5 Discounts are available on our Registration Form for adult family members that attend together, persons identifying as indigenous, full time college students and scout leaders. Children (17 and under) must be accompanied by their parent(s). Children under 7 are free. Children 7 and above pay their age. Classrooms and teachers with students are not eligible for these discounts and must contact us for circumstance-specific rates.
Refund & Transfer Policies
If you cannot attend a workshop you registered for, and you contact us immediately, or at the latest, the last weekday before the event, you are entitled to a transfer or refund minus a $5 processing fee. If you do not show up the day of a workshop you registered for, you forfeit the full amount paid.
Enrollment Limited! – Advanced registration reserves you a place in the workshop. Walk-ons may be turned away if our size limit is reached. When registering by mail, assume a workshop is open unless you see a “FULL” notice posted above.
Registration
Download the REGISTRATION and WAIVER Forms. Print and fill out these forms and mail them with payment to: Wild Food Adventures, 422 SE 49th Ave, Portland, OR 97215. If there is space and your are a walk-on, bring the forms and payment with you. While you can register many times throughout the year, only a single waiver form is required per person per year (Jan 1 – Dec 31) for all our day events. Multi-day Rendezvous require an additional waiver.