Wild Foraging Intensive Mushrooms Medicines and Edible Foods of the Forest Class!
Schedule
Sat Jul 18 2026 at 09:00 am to 02:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Stackhouse Park | Johnstown, PA
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MUST SIGN UP WITH LINK IN COMMENTS TO ATTEND! (NOT JUST WITH FB EVENT)With Dana Driscoll (Pennsylvania School of Herbalism) and Daniel Foshee (Mushroom Nerds) Do you want to start or deepen your wild food, mushroom, and/or medicine foraging practice? Are you interested in learning how to identify, harvest, and prepare food and medicine from our local ecosystem? If so, join Daniel and Dana for a full day immersed in the living landscape of Central Pennsylvania at the beautiful 277-acre Stackhouse Park in the Laurel Highlands, where you will learn to recognize, harvest, and prepare wild foods and medicines of the summer season.
The morning will be spent in the woods, where we will search for edible and medicinal mushrooms and wild plants while developing essential skills in identification, safe and ethical harvesting, reading the landscape, foraging ethics, nature stewardship, and observation. Our focus is on helping you build confidence in identification and foraging skills.
In the afternoon, we will identify, prepare, and wildcraft with the plants and mushrooms we’ve, learning practical methods for transforming wild harvests into usable forms. Participants will have the opportunity to create their own plant medicine—such as a tincture, infused vinegar, or wildcrafted salve (depending on what is abundant and in season)—to take home. This hands-on experience will help empower you to continue your herbal and mushroom foraging practice.
There will also be reasonably priced foraging gear, mushroom hunting knives, intro books, and cute mushroom merch available for purchase from Daniel’s company, Mushroom Nerds!
Schedule:
9am – 11:30 – Foraging in Stackhouse Park
11:30 – 12:30 – Lunch and Break (please bring your own lunch)
12:30 – 2pm – Plant and mushroom ID, edible preparations, and medicine-making demos.
Location: Stackhouse Park in Cambria County, situated on 277 acres of forest. 998 Luzerne St, Johnstown, PA 15905. Note: we will send you specific directions before the event with a map to reach the pavilion where we will gather.
Preparation: Good footwear is essential for this class; please wear a closed toe hiking shee with good tread–foraging often includes rough terrain and off-trail walking. Bring bug spray and tick repellent. Bring a notebook to document and take notes. An open weave basket is also recommended.
Lunch: All participants should bring their own lunch (lunch is not included in the cost).
Cost: Sliding scale $50 -$90. Sliding scale means that you pay what you can afford to pay, so please pay what you can afford. Those who make more can pay more.
Credits: This program also qualifies for 4 hours of stewardship and identification credits with the Pennsylvania School of Herbalism (applicable toward the 50-hour and 100-hour certificate programs.
About your instructors
Daniel Foshee is an ardent mushroom hunter and amateur mycologist. He’s been teaching an ‘introduction to safe mushroom hunting’ for multiple years in parks and at mushroom festivals and events in Pennsylvania. A member of the North American Mycological Association, the Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club, as well as several others. Daniel excels in cooking mushroom meals and loves teaching all of this to others in an education and experience based manner. In a good year he may eat as many as 20 species. He also operates a business called ‘Mushroom Nerds’ selling foraging gear at events up and down the East Coast. As an Amateur Mycologist Daniel collects specimens for DNA sequencing and aids in building the science of fungi. Socials:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mushroom.nerds.2025
Instagram @mushroomnerds
TikTok @https://www.tiktok.com/@mushroomnerds
Dana Driscoll has been teaching about wild food foraging, wildcrafted medicinal plants, and herbalism and leading plant walks in Western and Central Pennsylvania over a decade. She is the co-founder of the Pennsylvania School of Herbalism, and she practices Traditional Western Herbalism and Appalachian Folk Herbalism, rooted in the medicines of our beautiful Allegheny Mountains. As an herbalist and avid wild food forager, Dana is committed to working with local, abundant, and opportunistic plants and focusing on nature education that allows humans to reconnect and relearn reciprocal relationships with our ecosystems. She recognizes that humans and herbs have evolved together, and plant and mushroom food and medicine can work in profound ways on our physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. She is a member of the Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club, the American Herbalist Guild, and the North American Mycological Association. She is also a botanical and whimsical nature artist, permaculture practitioner, and homesteader currently residing in Indiana County. Socials (on the bottom of the page for PA herb school!) www.paherbschool.com/event/summer-wild-foraging-intensive-mushrooms-medicines-and-edible-foods-of-the-forest/
Please wear appropriate pants and footwear! Rain dates scheduled for following day! More information to follow closer to event
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