Wild Edibles Trip Details
Public Tour
Private tour groups of 6+: Email us to pick your date
Time
2 hour tour
Cost
$45 pp+ tip/tax
Private tours available (contact us for pricing)
Region
Wild plants: Vancouver
Wild Mushrooms: Usually the lower Seymour conservation reserve at rice lake gate gazebo
Meeting point changes seasonally – we’ll email details prior to the tour
ONLINE – Mushroom Foraging Trip
You’re invited to join Chef Robin Kort on a virtual mushroom foraging trip. Learn how to safely identify and collect mushrooms in the Pacific Northwest We’ll start with learning about poisonous mushrooms and then describe how, when and where to find culinary mushrooms like chanterelles and one of the most expensive mushrooms on the globe, the prized matsutake.
Spring & Summer Plant Trip
Learn how to identify traditional BC coastal wild foods; berries, edible trees, shoots and leaves, great for food nerds and hikers. Fiddleheads, licorice fern, big leaf maple flowers, nettles, oyster mushrooms and wild camomile to name a few. BOOK PUBLIC TOUR HERE
Mushroom Foraging Trip
Trips focus on how to identify traditional edible mushrooms like porcini, chanterelle, oysters and dozens more. Our ever-popular “Wild Edible Identification Trips” are 2-hour trips that include an easy walk through BC’s forest to identify whatever we find and they book up fast!
(This is not a harvesting trip, identification only).
Foraging Survival: Online Program
You’ll learn how to find food in a pinch and where to safely forage in the Pacific Northwest. Chef Robin Kort will show you how to find sustainable edible wild weeds, nutrient rich plants for survival and beach forage superfoods like seaweeds and shellfish. We’ll cover any poisonous plants you should avoid and simple cooking methods for the food you find in this online program. One year access: BOOK HERE
Edible Medicinal Plants:Online Program
June 15th, this online program will focus on how to SAFELY identify wild medicinal plants and how to make them into beautiful herbal medicines. Join us for 2 hours with aboriginal herbalist, Lori Snyder, in her garden covering edible medicinal plants both native and invasive. Learn how to identify, care for and prepare these powerful plants into simple medicines like tinctures, teas and balms. She’ll cover which parts of each plant to use for healing and which to leave for the bees. You’ll have 1 year access to this video series: BOOK HERE
Reviews:
“We thoroughly enjoyed hunting for mushrooms on that glorious fall day. It feels good to know more and we are excited to keep learning. “ –Andy from Burnaby
BC Living Magazine – On Tour: “I’m surprised – nay, delighted – at the shapes and sizes to be found in just this one patch of West Coast forest. Nature is amazing!”
The Globe & Mail – “Tour gives people one up on wild plant & fungi knowledge”
Infield Classes Itinerary
Day Trip
We start with an easy stroll in the forest, your wildcraft guide will show you how to identify different traditional wild food. There are tons of plants and mushrooms to discover in BC forests; a feast awaiting those who know its secrets. . Please note this is an identification only trip (no harvesting).
Tour length – 2 hours.
Please note that there is a minimum of 6 guest to run a Wild Edibles Public Tour. We reserve the right to cancel a Wild Edibles Tour date should it not have the minimum number of attendees.
All tours will practice social distancing and take all Covid related precautions.
