Why do we eat so much seafood in summer? It's so strange as that's when seafood is the least fresh and the most funky tasting from spawning and muddy river outflow. Winter is the true time to eat from the offerings of the sea like crab, seaweed, oysters, clams, uni and mussels. Water
quality is at it's highest, you can see 100 feet straight on a dive, it's crystal clear and you can taste it.
Chef life: On Dec 14, there is an extreme low tide, so I'll be out freezing my 'toes' off, harvesting uni in the Southern Gulf Islands and will report back on the harvest with some new cooking videos with urchin. One will be my recipe tests for a fresh seaweed stock based uni chowder and we'll be serving more lovely chowder at our winter foraging series next year...
WINTER COASTAL FORAGING LUNCH
Meet us at the beach to lunch and learn what delicious foods are harvested in winter with our chef & foraging team. This trip is for people that want to learn to survive on coastal food. Chef Robin will teach you how to sustainably gather her favourite winter foods like seaweed, shellfish, crab and nutty winter roots like cattails and burdock. Trip includes a big, steaming hot bowl of her famous chowder with fresh
bread and butter for lunch. We’ll meet at the beach for this adventure, bring your own beach chair (so we can distance appropriately) and a hot cuppa, bundle up and we’ll do something fun to start the new year.
SECOND FLUSH OF FUNGI
The weather is so mild that many areas are seeing a second crop of fungi this year. On our mushroom trip Sunday, we found lobster mushrooms, chanterelles, oyster mushrooms, witches butter, fluted elfin saddle and even hideous gomphidius - all edible. It must be seen to be believed, so come out this Sunday for our last trip to teach about edible forest fungi.
WILD MUSHROOM TRIP
Nov 22nd - Last chance
Come out with us this year and learn about edible and poisonous BC mushrooms in North Vancouver with our myco-experts.
Details: $45
Meet up in North Vancouver
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ONLINE WILD MUSHROOM FORAGING COURSE
Learn about mushrooms from Chef Robin from the comfort of your own home. She's been putting together videos of her mushroom foraging travels in BC this fall covering matsutake, lobster, chanterelle, shrimp mushroom, comb tooth and 20+ more edible and poisonous Pacific Northwest fungi. To learn how to safely forage this long wet November, check out the course...
SWALLOW TAIL
Online Foraging Education
Virtual Foraging Survial Trip
2 hours with foraging expert Robin Kort
A fun way learn some useful food foraging survival tips in case of emergency covering forest to seashore ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest. From sustainable edible wild weeds to nutrient rich plants for survival and beach forage superfoods like
seaweeds and shellfish. Learn about any poisonous plants you should avoid and simple cooking methods for the food you find in this 2 hour video collection. I've been teaching wild foraging classes for over a decade in BC and would love to share my knowledge with you.
FULL FORAGING 101 ONLINE COURSE
If you want more than one class, we have our full foraging 101 online course. In this video collection, I can show you how to safely forage for edible plants and mushrooms in all types of ecosystems; forest, meadow, river and even urban foraging in way more detail ...
MEDICINAL EDIBLES
Online Course with herbalist Lori Snyder
Our online video series featuring two hours with aboriginal herbalist, Lori Snyder, in her garden covering edible medicinal plants both native and invasive. She teaches us that food is our medicine, how to listen and get to know the plants that surround us. Learn how to identify, care for and prepare these powerful plants into simple medicines like edible
tinctures, teas and balms. She'll cover which parts of each plant to use for healing and which to leave for the bees.
GIFT CERTIFICATE
Available in any value. For our wild mushroom trips, sea foraging workshops, outdoor summer secret supper club featuring star chefs from around the city.
Note: a lot of our trips are outside and can be purchased as private tours.
We love our city and making fun food events in it, so see you soon!
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