Food From the Forest:
Utilizing woodlands for dependable food supplies with Chris & Kat Parker
Wooded areas historically are an important source of food, as well as useful for many other purposes. Join experienced forest farmer Chris Parker on a hands-on workshop finding and harvesting food from the forest. Learn new and ancient methods for increasing the food capacity of your forest or woodland. The workshop will cover trees and shrubs that produce edible parts (leaves, flowers, shoots, seeds, nuts, pods, bark, needles, fruits, saps, and roots) with a strong tilt toward mycology and reading the landscape and polycultures of plants, trees and shrubs to know what mushrooms should be growing on this land throughout the year. If fungi are missing from the land, strategies will be covered on how to reintroduce them. The workshop will also cover the many additional species in a woodland that also are important sources of food including, herbaceous plants, spring ephemerals, vines, animals, insects, and roots. Additionally the workshop will cover the importance of reciprocity as we explore the mutual benefits we and the forest provide each other.
Additional Workshop Info:
Join us for lunch (included), from noon-1pm
All workshop materials are included.
This workshop is eligible for use with a season pass.
Youth under 18 may attend free with an adult registered for the same workshop (1 youth per adult).
Early-bird pricing ($55) is available through March 7. After that, the cost is $75.