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  • March 2026

  • Sat 21

    Edible Wild Plants on the First Days of Spring, 9am-Noon

    March 21 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
    Sauvie island Sam's Cracker Barrel Grocery, 15005 NW Sauvie Island Rd, Portland, Or, OR, United States

    Portland, Oregon. $30 - $60 sliding scale, children pay their age, see details. Make a choice between attending this or the 1-4pm workshop. We'll explore several areas on Sauvie Island to inspect this spring's early green delectables near the Vernal Equinox. See and sample from plants you pass by everyday. The earlier you start in […]

  • Sat 21

    Edible Wild Plants on the First Days of Spring, 1-4pm

    March 21 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    Sauvie island Sam's Cracker Barrel Grocery, 15005 NW Sauvie Island Rd, Portland, Or, OR, United States

    Portland, Oregon. $30 - $60 sliding scale, children pay their age, see details. Make a choice between attending this or the 9am-noon workshop. We'll explore several areas on Sauvie Island to inspect this spring's early green delectables near the Vernal Equinox. See and sample from plants you pass by everyday. The earlier you start in […]

  • Sun 22

    Introduction to Wild Foods

    March 22 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    Wild Food Adventures 422 SE 49th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

    Portland, Oregon. $25 - $60 sliding scale, children pay their age, see details. In a walk through several habitats around Mt Tabor Park, learn essentials of wild food use and study, the best books, resources, and field guides. Be a successful forager early on, sample plants, get expert advice. This core workshop provides a deeper […]

  • Sat 28

    Wild Foods of Northwest Forests, 9am-Noon

    March 28 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
    Forest Park Germantown Road, Portland, OR, United States

    Portland, Oregon. $30 - $60 sliding scale, children pay their age, see details. 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 […]

  • Sat 28

    Wild Foods of Northwest Forests, 1-4pm

    March 28 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    Forest Park Germantown Road, Portland, OR, United States

    Portland, Oregon. $30 - $60 sliding scale, children pay their age, see details. 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 […]

  • April 2026

  • Sat 4

    Wild Foods of The Oregon Trail

    April 4 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
    Oregon City 485 Warner Milne Rd, Oregon City, United States

    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 […]

  • Sat 11

    Wild Foods of the Springwater Corridor – Part 1

    April 11 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
    Springwater Corridor 4515 SE Johnson Creek Blvd, Portland

    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 […]

  • Sun 12

    Wild Food Adventures Botanic Garden — Part 1

    April 12 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    Wild Food Adventures 422 SE 49th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

    Portland, Oregon. $30 - $60 sliding scale, children pay their age, see details. Learn about the edible plants in our wild food teaching, research, and demonstration gardens. See a great diversity of both native and non-native edibles all in the same place. Many sustainably return year after year. The land is managed and designed to […]

  • Sat 18

    Sea Vegetables and Other Seashore Edibles of the Pacific Coast

    April 18 @ 7:40 am - 11:00 am
    Parking area south of Lumbermans Memorial Park 206 American Ave, Garabaldi, OR, United States

    Garibaldi, Oregon. $35 - $60 sliding scale, children pay their age, see details. Dr. Kallas will lead an expedition to the Pacific coast where participants will learn about, identify, and gather samples of wild sea vegetables and seashore edibles during low tide. Find sea vegetables including nori, kombu, sea lettuce, fucus, alaria, laminaria, and more. […]

  • Sun 19

    Mussels, Barnacles and Coastal Wild Foods

    April 19 @ 8:15 am - 11:30 am
    Hug Point State Recreation Site Beach Access Rd, Arch Cape

    Hug Point, Oregon. $35 - $60 sliding scale, children pay their age, see details. Hug Point, Arch Cape, Oregon. Learn how to find, harvest, transport, clean, and prepare Oregon mussels, barnacles, and other edible wild plants during one of the lowest tides in 2025. Learn gathering regulations, limits and the modern tools used to gather […]

  • Sun 26

    Wild Foods of Oxbow’s Old Growth Forest, 9am-Noon

    April 26 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
    Oxbow Park 3010 SE Oxbow Parkway, Gresham, OR, United States

    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, […]

  • Sun 26

    Wild Foods of Oxbow’s Old Growth Forest, 1-4pm

    April 26 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    Oxbow Park 3010 SE Oxbow Parkway, Gresham, OR, United States

    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, […]

  • May 2026

  • Sat 2

    Butter, Steamer and Gaper Clam Dig

    May 2 @ 7:45 am - 11:30 pm
    Tillamook Safeway Parking Lot Safeway, 1815 4th St., Tillamook, OR, United States

    Netarts, Oregon. $35 - $60 sliding scale, children pay their age, see details. Netarts, Oregon. Learn how to find, dig, transport, clean, and prepare butter, steamer, and gaper clams during one of the lowest tides this year. Learn gathering regulations, limits and the modern tools used to dig them. The times we meet are dictated […]

  • Sun 3

    Mahogany & Softshell Clam Dig

    May 3 @ 8:00 am - 11:30 am
    Siletz Bay Park 5289 S U.S. 101, Lincoln City, United States

    Lincoln City, Oregon. $35 - $60 sliding scale, children pay their age, see details. We will have gobs of fun and gather some of the tastiest, most tender clams you’ll eat. Their shell colors are amazing and worthy of collecting on their own. Mahogany clams are also known as purple varnish clams. Learn how to […]

  • Sat 9

    Wild Foods of Vancouver Greenways

    May 9 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
    Salmon Creek Trail, Vancouver 13851 NW 36th Ave, Vancouver, WA, United States

    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 […]

  • Sun 10

    Wild Fruits of Pacific Northwest Forests – Part 1

    May 10 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    Archery Range SW Kingston Dr, Portland, United States

    Portland, Oregon. $30 - $60 sliding scale, children pay their age, see details. Join us to learn about wild fruits and other edible plant parts found in northwest forests. Summer is when many wild fruits are ripe for picking. See and learn about plants like huckleberry, salmonberry, oregon grape, milkweed, elderberry, gooseberry, wild current, salal, […]

  • Sat 16

    Jessup Bluff’s Fennel Forest

    May 16 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
    Jessup Bluff 3105 N Willamette Blvd, Portland, OR, United States

    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 […]

  • Fri 29

    Pacific Shores Wild Food Rendezvous

    May 29 - June 1
    Basecamp 882 N Miller St., Rockaway, OR, United States

    Rockaway, Oregon. This 23rd Annual Pacific Shores Rendezvous is an intensive on the role and use of wild harvested seavegetables, shellfish, and coastal edible wild plants in everyday life, recreational foraging, re-connecting with nature, self-reliance and survival. Go HERE for a video of one of our early Rendezvous. Rockaway, Oregon. $445, Early registration discounts are […]

    $445
  • June 2026

  • Sat 13

    Sea Vegetables and Other Seashore Edibles of the Pacific Coast

    June 13 @ 5:40 am - 9:00 am
    Parking area south of Lumbermans Memorial Park 206 American Ave, Garabaldi, OR, United States

    Garibaldi, Oregon. $35 - $60 sliding scale, children pay their age, see details. Dr. Kallas will lead an expedition to the Pacific coast where participants will learn about, identify, and gather samples of wild sea vegetables and seashore edibles during low tide. Find sea vegetables including nori, kombu, sea lettuce, fucus, alaria, laminaria, and more. […]

  • Sun 14

    Mussels, Barnacles and Coastal Wild Foods

    June 14 @ 6:10 am - 9:30 am
    Hug Point State Recreation Site Beach Access Rd, Arch Cape

    Hug Point, Oregon. $35 - $60 sliding scale, children pay their age, see details. Hug Point, Arch Cape, Oregon. Learn how to find, harvest, transport, clean, and prepare Oregon mussels, barnacles, and other edible wild plants during one of the lowest tides in 2025. Learn gathering regulations, limits and the modern tools used to gather […]

  • Fri 19

    GingerRoot Wild Food Rendezvous

    June 19 - June 22
    Silverton Grange 201 Division Street, Silverton, OR, United States

    Silverton, Oregon. This 23rd Annual GingerRoot Rendezvous is an intensive on the role and use of edible wild plants in everyday life, recreational foraging, re-connecting with nature, self-reliance, and survival. Silverton, Oregon. $445, Early registration discounts are listed below. A multi-day, hands-on wild food adventure and teach-in, learning natural wonders in the context of current […]

    $445
  • Sun 28

    Wild Food Adventures Botanic Garden — Part 2

    June 28 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
    Wild Food Adventures 422 SE 49th Ave, Portland, OR, United States

    Portland, Oregon. $30 - $60 sliding scale, children pay their age, see details. This workshop goes beyond part 1 to see more plants, as well as plants covered in part 1, but that are now at another stage of growth with additional foods at their prime for gathering. Learn about the edible plants in our […]

  • July 2026

  • Sun 12

    Butter, Steamer and Gaper Clam Dig

    July 12 @ 5:45 am - 9:30 am
    Tillamook Safeway Parking Lot Safeway, 1815 4th St., Tillamook, OR, United States

    Netarts, Oregon. $35 - $60 sliding scale, children pay their age, see details. Netarts, Oregon. Learn how to find, dig, transport, clean, and prepare butter, steamer, and gaper clams during one of the lowest tides this year. Learn gathering regulations, limits and the modern tools used to dig them. The times we meet are dictated […]

  • Sat 18

    Wapato Island Wild Food Expedition

    July 18 @ 9:00 am - 12:30 pm
    Sauvie island Sam's Cracker Barrel Grocery, 15005 NW Sauvie Island Rd, Portland, Or, OR, United States

    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 […]

  • Sun 19

    Farm to Table Wild Food Salad

    July 19 @ 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
    Cully Organic Neighborhood Farm 5520 NE Killingsworth St, Portland, OR, United States

    Portland, Oregon. $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 […]

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About John

Dr. John Kallas
John Kallas and Wild Food Adventures provide expertise in wild edible plants and foraging through workshops, expeditions, teaching events, presentations, outdoor guiding, and outfitting anywhere in North America. Technical advising, curriculum development, and custom research services are also available. Emphasis is on the past, present, and future uses of wild edible plants and other foragables....

Book: Volume 1

Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods From Dirt To Plate Vol. 1 by John Kallas
The book “Edible Wild Plants” Vol 1 provides what you really need to know to have your own wild food adventures. Whether a beginner or advanced wild food aficionado, gardener, chef, botanist, nutritionist, scientist, or a dieter with special needs, this book is for you. Author John Kallas gives you unprecedented details, maps, simple explanations, and multiple close-up photographs of every plant covered at every important stage of growth. 416 pages.

Book: Volume 2

Edible Wild Plants: Wild Foods From Dirt To Plate Vol. 1 by John Kallas
The book "Edible Wild Plants" Vol 2 goes further to help you have even more wild food adventures. All new plants, new concepts, and additional nutrient data. Author John Kallas continues to give you unprecedented details, maps, simple explanations, and multiple close-up photographs of every plant covered at every important stage of growth. 416 pages of more fun filled user friendly information.
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