Urban Foraging Course

Name: Urban Foraging Course
Start: 2024-06-01T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Schedule

Sat Jun 01 2024 at 03:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Montreal, Quebec, Canada | Montreal, QC

Learn how to forage wild food and medicine right here in beautiful and abundant Tiohtià:ke/”Montreal.” Every Saturday in June, nico (they/them) will lead a guided foraging tour in different areas of the city and teach participants how to identify plants, fruits, and even mushrooms. This course is designed to teach you how to become a safe, ethical, and confident forager. You will learn how to: identify, dry and process, cook with foragables, and how to prepare foragables into medicine. If you are Indigenous and wish to enroll in this course, please let us know, we offer adjusted community rates.
DESCRIPTION
Foraging is one way for urban folks to connect to nature, food systems, and build pathways towards resilient food sovereignty. In this course, we will take field trips to different locations around Tiohtià:ke/”Montreal.” Each Saturday we will take a guided foraging tour to identify plants, fruits, and mushrooms. Every week will involve a hands-on activity such as: making simple syrups, tea, drawing and/or recording info about the plants/mushrooms we find, making medicinal oxymels, tinctures, and skin care products. nico will also provide participants one foragable recipe once a week. Join us this summer to learn important foraging tips for harvesting plants like burdock, plantain, yarrow, purslane, ground ivy, bee balm, valerian, nettles, and more! If you are Indigenous and wish to enroll in this course, please let us know, we offer adjusted community rates.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Understand how to identify different plants and mushrooms based on visual, tactile, scent, and other identification methods.
Become familiar with different plant/mushroom/fruit families
Forage ethically in urban areas
How to process or cook foragables
Transform “weeds” into food, tea, and medicine
How to make tinctures, oxymels, and skin care products
Each week the instructor will provide a recipe related to each week’s foraging findings
DATES
5 Saturdays 3-5pm, June 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
PRICE
$175 per person
If you are Indigenous to Tiohtià:ke / the surrounding area and qualify for the reduced course price (apart of CultivAction’s Land Back tax) your course participation is fully covered and thus no payment necessary.
Please visit our website for more info and to sign up.