CLOSED: SOLD OUT The Foods and Medicines of Spring
Schedule
Sat Apr 11 2026 at 10:30 am to 02:00 pm
UTC-07:00Location
1202 West Snoqualmie River Rd NE, Carnation, WA, United States, Washington 98014 | Carnation, WA
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Join Ethnobotanist Renee Fredrickson at First Light Farm and spend a few hours in early spring exploring local plants that offer nutritional benefits as food and healing benefits as medicines. We will walk the farm to see what is popping up and forage for plants that can be used in a variety of foods, drinks, and medicines. Our exploration will include learning the principles of ethical harvesting, plant identification, understanding which parts to use and the time of year for collecting.
We will prepare and taste some of the foraged foods on site, and you will have the opportunity to try some that will be prepared ahead of time. Possible preparations include teas, tinctures, fritters, salads, pesto, and whatever our culinary imaginations can dream up! Participants will leave with recipe cards for preparing foods from foraged plants as well as information on the nutrition that these plants provide to us, which plants can be used to maintain and promote the health of different areas of the human body.
Plants typically available in early spring include dandelion, nettle, mustard, maple blossom, conifer needle. As the season progresses, find elder flower, borage, rose flower, and so many more as summer comes. The hope is that everyone who comes will feel empowered to use plants that are always always around you, often in the most unlikely places, often the plants that others call useless "weeds."
$60 fee. Limited to 12 participants. Register here: https://firstlightfarm-upick.square.site
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Where is it happening?
1202 West Snoqualmie River Rd NE, Carnation, WA, United States, Washington 98014Event Location & Nearby Stays:
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