THIS WORKSHOP IS CANCELLED. A good alternative is the Oxbow workshop on April 26th: Go HERE for the 9am workshop. Go HERE for the 1pm option. 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...
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...
THIS WORKSHOP IS CANCELLED due to unforeseen circumstances. A good alternative is the June 28th botanic garden workshop: Go <a 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...
THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL. Registrations are no longer being accepted. Our June 13th Seavegetable workshop is still open: Go HERE for more information. 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...
THIS WORKSHOP IS MOVED FROM HUG POINT TO ARCADIA BEACH STATE RECREATION AREA: Go HERE for a map to the location. Arcadia Beach, Oregon. $35 - $60 sliding scale, children pay their age, see details. Arcadia Beach, Arch Cape, Oregon. Learn how to find, harvest, transport, clean, and prepare Oregon mussels, barnacles, and other edible...
THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL. Other forest workshops around Portland include May 10th and September 26th. In Eugene there is a forest workshop on May 23. Tillamook State Forest, Oregon. $40 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...
THIS WORKSHOP IS CANCELLED. Other forest workshops around Portland include May 10th and September 26th. In Eugene there is a forest workshop on May 23. 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...
THIS WORKSHOP IS CANCELLED. Other forest workshops around Portland include May 10th and September 26th. In Eugene there is a forest workshop on May 23. 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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Eugene, Oregon. $30 - $60 sliding scale, children pay their age, see details below. This is the second of three events taught by John Kallas in Eugene, Oregon over Friday, May 22 and Saturday, May 23, 2026. For this hands-on, Saturday morning outdoor event, learn about the edible wild plants found in Oregon and most...
Eugene, Oregon. $30 - $60 sliding scale, children pay their age, see details below. This is the third of three events taught by John Kallas in Eugene, Oregon over Friday, May 22 and Saturday, May 23, 2026. For this hands-on Saturday afternoon outdoor event, learn about the edible plants found in pacific northwest forests in...
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...
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....
Arcadia Beach, Oregon. $35 - $60 sliding scale, children pay their age, see details. Arcadia Beach, 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 2026. Learn gathering regulations, limits and the modern tools used to gather...
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...
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...
THIS WORKSHOP IS CANCELLED. Other coastal workshops (clamming & Seavegetables) don't begin again until next spring. Get on our mailing list to be notified of those events when they are established. Netarts, Oregon. $35 - $60 sliding scale, children pay their age, see details. Netarts, Oregon. Learn how to find, dig, transport, clean, and prepare...
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...
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...
THIS WORKSHOP IS Cancelled. Considered other remaining workshops. 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...
Portland, Oregon. $30 - $60 sliding scale, children pay their age, see details. We'll wander through Sellwood and Oaks Parks natural areas to find some of Fall's best and diverse delectables. See and sample from plants you pass by everyday. We might see black and red hawthorn, native and large rose hips, red and yellow...