COASTAL FORAGING & FEASTING with Jennifer Hahn

Foraging for wild food, eating between tide and forest, is a passport to place. For Jennifer Hahn, northwest naturalist, Inside Passage solo sea kayaker, Pacific Crest Trail hiker, and teacher of a popular science course at WWU’s Fairhaven College called “Wild Food”—foraging is a way to connect to, monitor and restore the special foods that sustained people for 1000s of years. Enjoy a lively slide talk on the cultural, culinary and ecological uses of sea veggies, land plants and marine shellfish. Jennifer will share stories of her 40 years foraging afoot and afloat, sustainable foraging tips, and words from her Indigenous and nonindigenous traditional food friends. She’ll also share climate impacts based on research and observation and tell you about animals who shelter and eat the foods we also love--all while munching popcorn with Jennifer’s delicious SEA-sonings.

BIO:

Jennifer Hahn is a scientist, award-winning writer, film maker, expert forager, and expedition sea kayaker. She teaches sustainable wild food harvesting at Western Washington University’s Fairhaven College. In the summer, she leads kayak-mothership trips in Southeast Alaska for Sea Wolf Adventures. Jennifer recently did a deep dive into Salish Sea Seaweeds and toxicology with the help of 18 Salish Sea Tribes and First Nations. Her scientific article is published in the international journal PLOS One. She has been featured on NPR and toured with the Washington Commission for the Humanities. Jennifer's first book “Spirited Waters: Soloing South Through the Inside Passage” won an award for Travel Writing. Her most recent book, "Pacific Harvest: A Northwest Coast Foraging Guide" (Mountaineers Books, 2025) is a PNW Indie books best seller. Jennifer divides her time between writing, teaching, sea kayaking, hiking, foraging, and cooking wildy-delicious dishes such as uni carbonara. She lives in Bellingham, Washington with her potter husband and fleet of sea kayaks.

Jennifer's books will be for sale at the event.

Time: 5:30-7:30pm

Evening Details:
5:30pm - Social with Pizza, fingerfood, potluck, appetizers and beverages.
6:00 - 7:30 presentation
Proceeds will be donated to WWTA

ADDRESS:

Good Shepherd Center4649 Sunnyside Avenue North Room #140, Seattle, WA 98103

We will have a Zoom option. The link will be sent out the afternoon of the event.

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