Instructor Erin VanHee – Herbalist of Trillium Medicine
Feral Foods of Whidbey Island
Saturday May 13 2023
10 am – 4 pm
Fee – 95.00
Location – 7568 Cultus Bay Rd Clinton WA
Class maximum – 20
All supplies included plus homemade pie and beverage
Reclaim the lost art of foraging wild plants for nutritious and delicious meals in this day long field based course exploring native and non native edible plants. Eating wild foods is not new.
Indigenous people around the world still thrive using the diversity of wild foods passed down generation to generation. Whidbey Island has over 100 edible plants growing in your backyard, the beach, farms and woodlands.
Learning about wild foods is just as much about the plant ID, gathering protocols and harvest techniques as it is the re-igniting of traditional foodways and story into your daily life and diet.
In this class, you will identify wild greens, flowers, trees and roots that are common on Whidbey and throughout the northwest. We will discuss ways to prepare wild food as condiments, entrees, grains and delicious drinks. We will gather greens and prepare a wild food salad to include in our lunch break and make a wild greens infused salt for each to take home.
Bring your lunch to include with our wild salad. Pie and beverages included.
