Foraging Adventures: Wild Food Walk & Tasting

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Where? A serene hiking spot within 15 minutes drive of Downtown Berkeley - easily accessible by public transit.

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Winter rains bring plentiful foraging opportunities from choice greens to delicious mushrooms. Our foraging adventure will teach you where to collect edible plants & fungi and how to identify them safely as well as poisonous specimens to be aware of. Our relaxed hike will end with a sampling of deliciously prepared locally-foraged food.

Many choice greens like Miner's Lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata), Chickweed (Stellaria media) & Thistle (Cirsium spp.) (just to name a few of the species we will encounter) are in their immature stages at this time of year. Some species can be foraged as microgreens right now, which are in some cases more nutritious and succulent than their older counterparts. Plants are predictable but mushrooms are not - we will do our best to find some fungi during the walk. Either way, there will be examples to identify and you will learn habitat considerations for finding edible fungi.

The class is hands-on, in field and provides a perfect chance to directly connect with your local landscape. The class will focus on identification so you can forage your own foods - we will not be actively foraging in the park as a group. Come be a part of the ancient tradition of collecting your own food & getting better acquainted with the species around you.

About the facilitator:

Bryan is an avid forager and permaculturist who leads events on wild food foraging, land stewardship and ecotherapy. He holds a master’s degree in counseling psychology which he fuses with his passion for Earth-care to facilitate therapeutic nature-connection experiences. He has worked on regenerative farms across the country and currently manages a budding food forest at the UC Gill Tract Community Farm in Albany, CA. His mission statement is to build healing ecosystems to bring communities into a balanced relationship with the Earth and one another.

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