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Midwest Wild Harvest Festival

September 12, 2025 - September 14, 2025

Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin.

$100 – $200 for Full Event. For Options Visit Web Site.

This multi-day, hands-on wild food event provides education and experience finding, processing, and consuming edible wild plants and other foragables in a beautiful camp setting. Founded by wild food author and teacher Sam Thayer and now run independently by his wife Melissa Price. The Midwest Wild Harvest Festival is open to anyone from beginning to advanced foragers. This event is designed to be a wild food conference. A group of diverse instructors provide workshop options for registrants. And like all these wild food weekends, there are ample opportunities to make friends, discuss wild foods, learn and play.

The Weekend is filled with outdoor workshops and activities, a keynote speaker on Friday evening and a two-hour open forum where participants share their wild food experiences and knowledge. There is a wild food potluck dinner on Friday night prior to the Keynote presentation. Participants can enter a contest for the best wild food dishes. There is general playfulness and music after dinner on Saturday night.

John Kallas of Wild Food Adventures taught there last in 2015.

Check the official Midwest Wild Harvest Festival website for current pricing and informational updates: https://www.wildharvestfestival.org/.

Instructors

Each year wild food educators and enthusiasts gather to teach, facilitate and learn at this three day event. Wild food educators teaching at this event typically include Sam Thayer, Mike Krebill, Ellen Zachos and others.

What is Provided

Training, hands-on experiences, field trips, meals, and camping or dormitory space.

Five meals are provided starting with the Friday evening wild food potluck and ending with Sunday morning breakfast. The Friday potluck is all about wild foods, the remaining meals are healthy organic conventional foods peppered with wild foods when possible. Meals are prepared by staff and served in an indoor dining hall.

Participants can choose to camp or stay in a dorm at the facility at no extra charge.


Costs

For people 15 on up registration is $200.
Children 12-14 range is $125.
Children 5-11 range is $100.
Children under 5 attend for free.

Details

Start:
September 12, 2025
End:
September 14, 2025
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Organizer

Midwest Wild Harvest Festival: Melissa Price
Phone
715-354-9936
Email
melissa@foragersharvest.com
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Venue

The Wisconsin Badger Camp
11815 Munz Ln
Prairie du Chien, WI 53821 United States
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Phone
608-988-4558
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