June Foraging Events: Group Walks, Tastings & Picnics
The spring foraging season is off to a fantastic start! With May’s early rains, the ground is lush with delicious edible greens, fragrant herbs and tasty flowers.
Last week’s public forage in Weston produced the first fungi of the year – Dryad’s Saddle. With so many wild foods available over the next few weeks it can feel a bit overwhelming choosing what to focus on.
My kitchen is clustered and bursting with new concoctions, from ramp kimchi and ramp sauerkraut to spruce tip molasses, wild sodas, shrubs and quick pickled everything! I can’t wait to share some of my favorite dishes with you at June’s tastings, social hours and picnics.
June welcomes more delightfully edible flowers like daylily, milkweed, linden and beach roses, along with the first fruits of the season in mulberry and juneberry. For the first time I will be offering a salt marsh forage in late June up on the seacoast of NH where we will explore all of the succulent, salty treasures from marsh samphire and sea beans to beach peas and orache.
Last year’s Pride Month forage and social hour was such fun that I am bringing it back again this year! With the weather warming up and the kid’s finishing up their school year, June is the perfect time to get outside and enjoy.
June Forages:
- May 31: Foraging Walk: Edible Shoots, Tendrils, Tips, Flowers & Herbs (Newton, MA)
- June 1: Spring Mushroom Foraging Walk (Wakefield, MA)
- June 14: Pride Month Foraging Walk & Social Hour with Tasting (Waltham, MA)
- June 29: Salt Marsh Foraging Class (Hampton, NH)
Featured at this month’s wild food picnic – Wild Ramp Caprese topped with quick pickled red buds, doused in beer and mugwort vinegar.
