Wild Edible Plants Workshop – Southern Ontario
Ever wonder how our ancestors could have possibly survived before the invention of the Supermarket? How did they get plants and vegetables in their diet? This is an introductory course designed start you off with the basics, focusing on species that have few or no poisonous look-a-likes. We will discuss plants that are plentiful easy to find and grow almost everywhere in our area.
| Wild Edible Plants Workshop – Grand River Valley & Brant County, Southern Ontario |
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What you will learnWe’ll teach you how to identify some of the commonly found wild edible and medicinal plants that grow in our area, along with their uses and the different methods to prepare them properly. We will briefly discuss mushrooms as a wild edible, but we will not be identifying or dealing with them in depth. Other topics we will cover:
What’s included
Price$25 per person & $5 per child(13 and under) + HST |
*prices include HST
The human species has lived very successfully for thousands of years as a Hunter-Gatherer society. In order to gather, you needed to be able to safely identify plants that are edible and avoid ones that could cause you harm. Like most primitive skills, it is one that has been lost in most of modern civilization.
Whether you you want to learn about wild edibles as a survival skill for use in an emergency or you just have an interest in foraging, you’ll enjoy this course.
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