The Giant Pacific Chiton is also called a gumboot chiton and is indeed edible, so if you haven't yet there's hope. Westcoast First Nations would eat them as a massive protein source in winter. They move real slow so it's easy fishing, the only thing you have to be cautious of is red tide or other toxic
algae blooms that would render them inedible. Gumboot chitons can be eaten raw (skinned and gutted) or traditionally cooked in steam pits.
If you have ever tried one, I'd love to hear from you. I'm currently researching and writing a coastal foraging cookbook which will include some of my favourite recipes with wild coastal ingredients. I've been cooking and harvesting in the Gulf Islands this summer and have found some new, weird and wonderful treats to eat. Any suggestions for neat wild ingredients that you can find on the
coast? Feel free to drop me a line.
Join us for a sea foraging tour to try out some of the food that I've been experimenting with for the cookbook, there are a few tickets left, info below.
SUMMER FORAGING TOUR
July 31(Sold Out) and Aug 29th
Join Chef Robin to learn about summer foraging. There are so many fun things to harvest in the summer like this wild sea asparagus or tons of neat native berries. Cook jams and make syrups for cocktails or just eat the wilds fresh from the field. Take a 2 hour easy walk with a chef to learn about how to safely identify them and how she gathers, prepares and cooks them.
Or if you prefer, email us to book a private group.
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 FOR SURVIVAL
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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