wild greens: forage to feast
Explore, gather, and savor the bounty of early spring at Yakona. As the forest begins to awaken from winter, an abundant diversity of wild edible and medicinal plants emerge, offering the perfect opportunity to deepen your connection to seasonal offerings.
In this immersive foraging experience, you’ll learn to identify a variety of wild edible and medicinal plants while gaining insight into their nutritional and traditional healing benefits. Together, we’ll harvest what the land offers and prepare a unique wild food dish to share, celebrating the flavors of the day and the place that provides them.
Plants that may be ready for gathering include stinging nettle, plantain, dandelion, chickweed, and evergreen tips.
Foraging will take place along forest trails with hilly terrain and sustained grades of up to 12%. This experience will be challenging for those with mobility limitations, balance concerns, or breathing difficulties. Please register only if you are comfortable participating in a moderate to challenging foraging hike.
details:
Instructors: Frances O’Halloran & Rena Olson
Location: Yakona Nature Preserve
Adults 18+
Yakona provides: all class materials
Participants are encouraged to bring their favorite nippers, gloves, and collecting bags or baskets
Carpooling is necessary for the 3-mile drive into Yakona
Event is free; donations are welcome
Give Todayregistration required
artist bio
Frances O’Halloran is an herbalist, wildcrafter, mother, medicine maker, passionate kitchen witch, teacher, reiki master, gardener, baker, and certified yoga instructor. She has been working, playing, crafting, and meditating with plants for over two decades. Her lifelong passion for optimal health, gardening, and crafting, along with a dream of living a more herbally abundant and creative life, led her to create LoveJoy Botanicals. She finds fulfillment in sharing her herbal creations and assisting people in reconnecting with the healing powers of the plant ‘queendom’.
Since 1999 Frances has been living, learning, loving and teaching the herbal way. She feels blessed and grateful to have this connection and calling that is sweetly healing and fulfilling. It is her honor and pleasure to share her knowledge and wisdom with others.