Wild Edible Food and Medicine Series

This workshop is part of an immersive foraging series offers a unique opportunity to slow down, step outside, and reconnect with the living landscape while learning practical, time-honored skills in plant identification and herbal medicine-making. Each seasonal workshop is shaped by what the land offers in that moment. Whether you starting your foraging journey or wanting to go deeper, you will have the opportunity to build on your skills, as well as opportunities to enter and engage in the identification and harvest of wild edibles for the first time.

Winter Foraging: Roots, Bark, and Evergreens

Have you ever wanted to know what wild edibles you could find when many of the plants are dying back, losing their leaves and setting their seed?

Winter may seem like a time of scarcity, but it can actually be a season of great abundance. In this workshop, we explore the theme of food as medicine through hands-on harvesting, cooking, and shared meals. We will focus on roots, inner barks, evergreens, and other food and medicine plants that are available in winter- a time not often recognized for its foraging potential. Join us for a rewarding day of gathering nourishment from the land and finishing with a feast prepared from our harvest.

We’ll gather around a large fire to stay warm while making teas and cooking our wild food harvest. Dishes often prepared during this workshop include inner pine bark chips, sautéed wild roots, and an all-time favorite: traditional stone soup, rock-boiled inside a pumpkin—a winter classic.

Come share good food, warmth, and community as we celebrate the abundance of the winter season

You will leave with

• Understanding of how to rock boil soup in a pumpkin!
• Other creative, delicious ways to cook with wild foods from the winter season
• Knowledge of how to identify wild plants, including winter-specific identification tips
• Foraging tools and techniques
• Having processed and harvested plants for food and medicine
• Knowledge of Health-supporting properties of the plants we harvest
• An Understanding of Safe and ethical harvesting practices

Meet your instructors:

Renata Atkinson is a clinical herbalist with over 15 years of experience. She is dedicated to making herbal knowledge accessible and, in addition to her clinical practice, leads hands-on workshops in foraging, wildcrafting, and medicine making.

Joe Murray has been mentoring nature connection since 1997. Over the years, he has mentored thousands of children and supported experiential, land-based education initiatives that deepen relationships between people and the natural world.