Upcoming Public Events
Check out our list of upcoming public forages, tastings and wild food picnics!
June
June opens up a bounty of location-specific forages, from woods and fields to the first coastal and salt marsh edibles. Common harvests include wild grape leaves & tendrils, wild berry leaves, cattail hearts/bloom spikes, burdock flower stalks, day lily flowers/buds, milkweed flowers/buds, Linden (basswood) blossoms, beach pea flowers, salty fingers/marsh samphire, sea beans, mulberries, juneberries, chicory flowers, hop shoots, lambs quarters, orache, angelicas, peppergrass leaves, various tree pollens.
Introduction to Foraging: Edible Invasives, Herbs, Plants, Fruits & Fungi
When: 1:30pm – 3:30pm
Cost: $50/person
Salt Marsh Forage: Salty Succulents
When: 10:30pm – 12:30pm
Cost: $60/person
Foraging Walk & Wild Food Picnic
When: 10:00am – 1:00pm
Cost: $75/person
July
July‘s warm weather welcomes a variety of summer fungi including Chicken of the Woods, Chanterelles, Boletes & Black Trumpets. Berries, herbs and flowers are prime for harvesting like black raspberries, fire cherries, milkweed pods, blueberries, bilberries, huckleberries, strawberries, indian cucumber, young/green black walnuts, yarrow flowers/buds, purslane, mullein, wild mints, bugleweed, sweetgale, sweetfern, bay leaf, may apple fruit and currants.
Foraging Walk: Black Walnuts, Wild Herbs & Summer Fungi followed by Wildcrafted Liqueur Tasting
When: 10:00am – 12:30pm
Cost: $65/person
Foraging Walk: Wild Herbs, Edible & Poisonous Plants and Summer Fungi
When: 10:00am – 12:00pm
Cost: $50/person
Foraging Class: Summer Fungi. Wild Herbs & Edible/Poisonous Plants
When: 10:00am – 12:00pm
Cost: $50/person