Wairarapa Foraging Workshop - Carterton - held once a year in the Wairarapa, Nov 23 sold out, sign up to my newsletter to hear about any upcoming Foraging Workshop dates.
Held on an offgrid permaculture property situated in Carteton, Wairarapa. Complete with vegetable gardens, fruit trees, a natural pond etc, you'll love this rural workshop setting.
Join Felicity for a wander around the edges of the garden to learn about commonly found, wild, edible weeds. Build a relationship with a natural world that is overflowing with abundant, wild, edible, nutritious, medicinal plants. Learn their names & get to know them, along with folklore & stories from the past.
By the end of the workshop you will:
- understand the basic principles of foraging, including sustainable harvesting
- feel confident in identifying 10-15 wild edible plants
- know about their nutritional & medicinal benefits
- know about common toxic/dangerous plants to avoid when foraging
- know about the best ways to prepare your foraged greens for maximum nutritional benefit & flavor
- feel empowered to include foraged greens in your everyday diet
Walk away with hands on, practical skills & knowledge that you can use in your own life.
Investment includes hands on wild weed walk & discussion, cup of foraged herbal tea & wildly delicious foraged snack.
New ZealandPerfection!!!
Loved this workshop so much, learnt so much! Invaluable info. Can't recommend these workshops enough. Thoroughly brecommensed. AAA++++
New ZealandBrilliant experience
A brilliant, interactive way to learn about what underrated, nutritious ingredients are widely available in your own backyard. Felicity shares her wealth of knowledge in a relaxed and fun way that gives you the confidence to identify and eat plants you never knew you could. I particularly enjoyed tasting the "weeds" and hearing their stories. Thank you Felicity and Lucia (host) for the awesome experience!
New ZealandGreat workshop
Very relaxed and informative session, as a newbie to foraging i really enjoyed learning about some of the more common edible weeds. The workshop has given me the confidence to dive more into the wonderful world of foraging, and getting more in touch with the land. Highly recommend!!
New ZealandWairarapa Foraging workshop
When my friend Marian and I drove from Eastbourne "over the hill" to attend this Wairarapa workshop on 7 August, we weren't quite sure what it would entail. Well, it totally surpassed our expectations! Enjoyable and very informative. After a warm welcome by Felicity in the cosy workshop of New Forest School founder Hella Coenen, we set off on a wander outside. Over the next 2 hours, Felicity shared some of her extensive knowledge with us, showing us how to identify several commonly-occurring weeds and telling us about their culinary or medicinal uses. These plants included Lemonwood, watercress, dandelion, plantain, yarrow, chickweed, miner's lettuce, borage, puha, calendula, stinging nettle and dock. Afterwards, we gathered to sample Felicity's vibrant green chickweed pesto and a salad of miner's lettuce - both delicious! I would definitely recommend this workshop to anyone interested in learning more about foraging in our local environment.
New ZealandGreat experience
It was an amazing firaging workshop with Felicity. I am very much looking forward to going to the intermediate workshop!