Wild Food Feasting & Foraging

Come outdoors and explore the fascinating world of wild edibles, Discover the optimum nutrition and delicious tastes provided by plants you usually weed and throw in the compost pile. We’ll start with an herb walk to identify common tasty plants. Use these plants to create refreshing teas, nutritious salads, savory soups, and delicious additions to pasta, veggies and side dishes. Discover how to locate, identify, harvest, and prepare wild edibles. Enjoy a wild foods lunch which will include refreshing tea, wild foods salad, creamy nettle pesto with Manchego cheese and sun-dried tomato, and a delicious nopales salsa with cojita cheese and chips. We will finish up with lavender and dandelion petal shortbread. Experience the fun, health benefits, and self-reliance of eating on the wild side! Lunch, handout with plant information, resources, and recipes included.