Not offered in 2018, possibly 2019. If you have an abundant cattail patch (hundreds of plants) within a 20 minute drive of Portland, contact us.
Not Offered in 2016
Get hands-on experience on how cattail rhizomes and other underground parts can be processed into flour for breads, ash cakes, muffins, and pancakes. We’ll see how to identify, gather, peel, process and cook cattail cores so that they transform into a flour-like food source. By the end of the workshop we’ll have gone from swamp roots to delicate pancakes that any normal human would enjoy. See Portland Tribune article here.
We will be venturing into a swamp, bring cloths you can get dirty in from head to toe (our location and weather conditions will determine whether we are in a dried mud bed or in an open shallow pond to our knees and how warm your cloths should be. The full list of items to bring:
Note: Waiders are overkill unless the area is flooded, which has not happened yet at this time of year.
* The kitchen or butter knife MUST HAVE a straight dull side opposite the blade. A curved dull edge will not work, the dull edge opposite the blade must be straight no matter what kind of knife you bring.
Wild Food Adventures, 422 SE 49th Ave, Portland, OR 97215. We’ll car pool to the swamp from this location and end up back at Wild Food Adventures to clean, process, and cook up the cattail pancakes.
If you live close to Scappoose, meet us in Scappoose in front of the Dairy Queen parking lot – see map. Be there by 9:25am and wait patiently until we drive by to pick you up. If meeting us YOU MUST LET US KNOW where you will be meeting us – Portland or Scappoose – and must provide a cell phone number! If no one calls us, we will not be stopping at the Dairy Queen.
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.
Discounts
$3 Discounts are available on our Registration Form for adult family members that attend together, Native Americans, 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 refund minus the following administrative handling fees: switching to another workshop = $3; sending you a refund check = $5. If you do not show up for 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.
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.