I'm taking December off this year and have gotten into an apprenticeship
at MakerLabs in woodworking of all things. If anyone is interested in supporting my latest creative venture, I'm selling some of the charcuterie boards that I designed last week. Email me if you want one of the 5 left - $69, then order some of your favourite cheeses at Les Amis du Fromage et voila. The boards are made of a sustainable ironwood called Ipe and I designed them with a vegetarian
friend in mind. I always wanted a way to clearly separate the meats from the cheeses on a board. Back to Swallow Tail next year, but this has been a really fun break.
Below are a few more gift ideas, happy almost Christmas everyone.
2. Cafe Medina Waffle Lover Gift Boxes & Brunch Kits
If you have a super fancy foodie in your life, here are some sheek eats that can be delivered (within 15km of Medina) or picked up. Can include bubbly, very classy. Check them out here.
3. Swallow Tail Gift Certificates
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!
4. The Buy Nothing Project - Give where you live. I really do like the option of not buying anything this year and instead giving to your local community. It's a bit hard to grasp but check out their website for info. The
idea is that you join a neighbourhood Buy Nothing facebook group and post anything you'd like to give away, lend, or share or ask for anything you'd like to receive for free or borrow.
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.
Shrimp Russula (one of the tastiest edible BC mushroom) hunting with me...
How are you doing?
We would love to hear your feedback on some new Covid friendly food adventure ideas and how the pandemic is affecting your food life, take the survey...
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.
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