‘Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food’ Hippocrates

The forest is more than trees and an ecosystem for wildlife. It’s full of food and medicine.

In mid spring, the air is warm. The scent of damp earth and emerging green rises up to meet you before you’ve even stepped off the trail. Leaves opening. The forest floor covered in dappled light – a brief window before the canopy closes in and the season shifts.

Spring reveals her rhythm in these delicate yet hardy first greens. The spring ephemerals are here for a short time, not a long time.
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We’ll wander into the forest and see what’s always been growing around us – wild leeks, stinging nettles, violets, trout lillies, strawberry plants and more – not as plants to be collected and used, but as allies. As friends who have been waiting for us to slow down long enough to notice them.

We’ll identify them, honourably harvest them, and taste them while still in the forest. Prepare a shared wild meal from the harvest. Make handcrafted preparations to take home – and learn ways to preserve the harvest and weave these nourishing foods into everyday life.

You’ll come to know a way of harvesting that is relational – rooted in reciprocity, in the plant’s lifecycle, in leaving things better than you found them. Once you’ve walked this path, it becomes a way of being.
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Spaces are limited – registration required
https://honeybeehomestead.ca/forage-feast

Lunch, snacks, herbal teas & all supplies included