Instagram live chat on Tues, June 22 at noon with mushroom grower Jon @forager_galley
Lion's mane is a medicinal mushroom that is delicious, tastes a bit like crab meat. Jon from forager galley is a commercial mushroom cultivation expert and a really neat human. We'll be chatting about wild and cultivated varieties of coral fungi that you can grow yourself. Corals are a large group of mushrooms that include cauliflower mushrooms, snow mushrooms and many more. Hope
you can join us, just check my Instagram feed at noon and you'll catch the free talk @swallowtailtours
SEA FORAGING TRIP
August 1 and 28th, join Chef Robin for a day at the beach.
We’ll teach you how to fish for Dungeness Crab and will discuss harvesting seaweed, sea asparagus, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, clams, scallops, oysters, whelk, mussels, gooseneck barnacles in BC.
Share a sunset evening with us and bring all your questions about how to harvest from the seashore. Includes Chef Robin's foraged chowder served on the beach and other sea delicacies.
Book a private foraging trip.
In the Fraser Valley or on Galiano for summer.
Email us to book one. Cost varies depending on group size.
Private field classes...
PLANT FORAGING TRIPS
COASTAL FORAGING
SEA FORAGING
MEDICINAL PLANTS WITH LORI SNYDER
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...
ONLINE SPRING FORAGING COURSE
Learn what you can forage for in spring along the coast of BC/WA. Wildcraft expert Chef Robin Kort will teach you about about tasty wild weeds like stinging nettle, wintercress, elegant edible wildflowers and spring wild mushrooms like morels, prince mushrooms and shaggy manes. We’ll cover any poisonous look alikes, identification techniques and some simple cooking methods for the food you find.
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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