Upcoming Public Events
Check out our list of upcoming public forages, tastings and wild food picnics!
August
August features an incredible array of mushrooms like Maitake, Milk Caps, various Boletes, Puffballs and more! Wild edible berries, herbs and nuts are also perfect for picking, including purple flowering raspberries, black cherries, blackberries, elderberries, ground cherries, sumac, hazelnuts, beach pea pods, beach roses, wild mustard flowers/buds, peppergrass, purslane, wood sorrel, amaranths, sweetgale, sweetfern, bay leaf and gooseberries.
August 2 – Needham, MA*
Foraging Walk: Summer Fungi, Berries, Trees and Herbs* (SOLD OUT)
When: 10:00am – 12:00pm
Cost: $50/person
Mushroom Walk: Edible, Medicinal and Poisonous Fungi
When: 10:00am – 12:00pm
Cost: $50/person
Foraging Walk & Wild Food Picnic: Summer Fungi, Berries and Herbs
When: 10:00am – 1:00pm
Cost: $75/person
Mushroom Foraging Walk: Edible, Medicinal and Poisonous Fungi
When: 10:00am – 12:00pm
Cost: $50/person
September
September features a wide variety of delicious wild nuts, berries and mushrooms. Beach plums, paw paws, fox grapes, riverside grapes, cranberries, hickory nuts, crab apples, autumn olives, cow parsnip seeds, spicebush berries, chokecherries, wild pears, dogwood fruit, sassafras leaves, and crabapples are all ripe for the taking. Hen of the woods/maitake, hericium/lion’s mane, beefsteak polypores, oyster mushrooms, lobster mushrooms, hedgehog mushrooms, blewits, honey mushrooms, shrimp of the woods and a large array of gilled mushrooms – russulas, brittle gills, etc make for excellent mushroom hunting.
Mushroom Foraging Walk: Edible, Medicinal and Poisonous Fungi
When: 10:00am – 12:00pm
Cost: $50/person
Mushroom Foraging Walk: Edible, Medicinal and Poisonous Fungi
When: 10:00am – 12:00pm
Cost: $50/person
Mushroom Foraging Walk & Wild Food Picnic: Edible, Medicinal and Poisonous Fungi
When: 10:00am – 1:00pm
Cost: $75/person