Workshops

Here you will find workshops I offer each season. Stay up to date through my newsletter and social media for dates on workshops. 

🌿 Spring Salad Forest Forage (Late April–June)

Discover what it feels like to enjoy a meal gathered straight from the land. This immersive workshop teaches you how to confidently identify, harvest, and prepare a vibrant wild salad using the freshest ingredients the forest has to offer.

🥗 What You’ll Experience

  • Guided plant identification of abundant spring greens, herbs, and edible shoots

  • Sustainable harvesting techniques that build confidence and ecological awareness

  • A forest-to-table meal, beginning with a guided hike to gather your ingredients

  • Outdoor salad preparation, where we turn our harvest into a nourishing, flavourful meal

  • A shared feast, enjoying the freshness and vitality of food gathered with your own hands

🍋 Bonus: Simple, Delicious Dressings

You’ll also learn how to make fast, wholesome dressings using nutrient-rich ingredients- easy recipes that will quickly become staples in your home kitchen.

🥣 What to Bring

  • BYOB – Bring Your Own Bowl

  • Foraging bags or baskets you want to harvest with
  • Comfortable walking shoes or none at all!

  • Water bottle

  • Weather‑appropriate clothing

🤝 In Partnership with The Escarpment Corridor Alliance

Learn more about the ECA and their work here: https://myescarpment.ca/eca_learning_series/

 

 Summer Salad Garden Forage: A Gourmet Wild Foods Experience: July-August

Step into the heart of summer and discover how vibrant, nourishing, and delicious a truly fresh meal can be. This hands‑on foraging experience guides participants through identifying, harvesting, and preparing wild plants, all culminating in a beautiful, gourmet salad we create and enjoy together.

🥗 What to Expect

  • Guided plant identification of abundant, easy‑to-recognize summer greens and flowers.
  • Mindful foraging techniques that emphasize safety, sustainability, and confidence
  • A collaborative salad‑making session featuring wild greens, seasonal vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, ferments, and homemade dressings
  • A focus on nourishment, showing how simple ingredients can become a deeply satisfying, health‑supportive meal
  • A shared gourmet experience, where participants sit down together to enjoy the flavors of the landscape

🌱 Why This Workshop Matters

This event blends practical foraging skills with the joy of preparing food as a community. Participants leave feeling energized, inspired, and connected, not just to the land, but to the experience of eating something they helped gather and create.

🍽️ A Meal to Remember

The final salad isn’t just a bowl of greens, it’s a colorful, nutrient‑rich feast layered with textures, flavors, and ingredients that celebrate the season!

📸 What to Bring

  • A bowl and fork
  • Water bottle
  • Sun protection
  • A camera or phone for plant ID

🌿 Summer Pesto Forage: A Wild Greens Gourmet Workshop: July-August

Celebrate the height of summer by turning fresh, foraged greens into a vibrant, nourishing pesto and paired with crisp, homemade raw seed crackers. This hands‑on workshop blends plant identification, mindful harvesting, and delicious food creation, all culminating in a shared gourmet tasting experience.

🌱 What to Expect

  • Guided plant identification of abundant, easy‑to-recognize summer greens.

  • Close‑to‑home foraging techniques that build confidence, safety, and ecological awareness

  • A collaborative pesto‑making session using wild greens, seeds, and wholesome flavorings

  • A focus on nourishment, showing how simple, fresh ingredients can become a deeply satisfying, health‑supportive food

  • A shared gourmet experience, enjoying your freshly made pesto with homemade raw seed crackers crafted in advance for the workshop

🍃 Why This Workshop Matters

This experience brings together practical foraging skills, seasonal abundance, and the joy of preparing food as a community. Participants leave feeling empowered, inspired, and connected; not only to the land, but to the pleasure of eating something they helped gather and create.

🍽️ A Taste of Summer

Your pesto becomes a rich, nutrient‑dense spread layered with the flavors of the season: bright herbs, earthy wild greens and creamy seeds. Paired with crisp, raw seed crackers, it’s a gourmet treat that’s both wholesome and deeply satisfying.

📸 What to Bring

  • A small container for taking home extra pesto

  • Water bottle

  • Sun protection

  • A camera or phone for plant ID

🍄 Mushroom Foraging & Identification (August–October)

Step into the hidden world of fungi and discover how mushrooms shape, support, and signal the health of the forest around us. This hands-on workshop teaches you how to confidently identify wild mushrooms and forage with safety, respect, and ecological awareness.

🌲 What You’ll Learn

  • Mushroom anatomy, and how each feature helps with accurate identification

  • Key identification skills for distinguishing species in the field

  • How to read the landscape, spotting the habitats where mushrooms thrive

  • Tree–fungus relationships, and why they matter for finding specific species

  • Edible and medicinal uses of select fungi, with a focus on safety and sustainability

🚶 What to Expect

This is an educational hike focused on learning the process of mushroom identification. We’ll explore the forest, observe a variety of species, and practice using visual features, habitat clues, and ecological context. A mushroom‑parts handout is included to support your learning during and after the workshop.

📒 What to Bring

  • Weather‑appropriate clothing (sun or rain)

  • Notebook and pen

  • Camera or phone for photos

  • Any field guides you enjoy using