What Christmas, are we going to have one even? I certainly hope
so, but at the least I'm going to send some fun gifts. Here are some creative local ideas that won't break the bank for food loving friends and family.
Make it yourself:
One thing some of us have right now is time, so have some fun baking or making your own gifts. I bought some lovely BC pottery at the Eastside culture crawl virtual event that I'll
fill with my spruce shortbread cookies. $40 for the pottery piece + your baking time.
Buy local:
Cheese is the best gift in Vancouver it is a treat because of our prices. Some of my favourite Canadian cheese that won't break the bank and will send your tastebuds around the moon from Les Amis du Fromage.
- Grey Owl ash rind goat cheese from Quebec
- Avonlea clothbound cheddar P.E.I.
- Kootenay alpine cheese - Alpindon
Wrap it up on a gorgeous cutting board from locals: Union wood co. to make it extra special.
I recently went to Published Restaurant and had spruce infused dessert, it was a revelation. Their chef Gus Brandson is offering culinary excellence and their dining room is really spacious and relaxing. A gift certificate for $50 should cover a little treat
drink & dessert for someone you love.
Grab a Swallow Tail Gift Certificate for our 2021 season of food & foraged events and online culinary courses and let your friends chose their own food adventure.
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.
If there is a covid lockdown at the time, we'll reschedule any sessions or issue refunds if you can't make the new date.
How are you doing?
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SWALLOW TAIL
Online Foraging Education
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...
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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