Spring is definitely around the bend, flowers are popping up and the air has a whiff of hope in it. When the crocus start blooming, you can start looking for Spring Kings (Porcini style mushrooms). Dungeness crab tastes the best right now, so start fishing! March is when shellfish is the freshest and
fattest. If you want to learn to fish for crab we will be running private trips (fishing from a dock, no boat) starting in April hopefully, email us if you want to join.
I also wanted to share a weird and wonderful forest find from a class I ran for BCIT on winter edibles yesterday. Ever heard of 'poor mans gumdrop'.. check out the video below at the 1 minute mark to learn about it.
What's happening with our outdoor tours this year?
We're just waiting for outdoor small group activities to open up, all our tickets are still available for spring, so feel free to book one (we'll give you a full refund if we are still in lockdown). Our online foraging classes are bookable at anytime here.
SPRING FORAGING TRIPS
Infield trip will focus on how to SAFELY identify wild edible trees, roots, herbs, shoots and leaves and dozens more edibles that you will never find in the grocery store! Our ever-popular “Wild Edible Identification Trips” are 2-hour wild plant identification trip and they book up fast!
Learn tips and tricks on how best to cook and preserve tons of different wild edibles from burdock root to birch leaves. (note: this is not a live cooking demo or a harvesting trip, ID only).
Where: Vancouver, location tbd
When: April/May - Check the ticket link
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.
Where: Jericho Beach
When: Tickets in March and April, check the ticket link
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.
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.
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!
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