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Wild Food Adventures
Provides expertise in wild edible plants and foraging
through workshops, expeditions, teaching events,
presentations, outdoor guiding, and outfitting anywhere in
North America. Technical advising, curriculum development,
and custom research services are also available. Emphasis is
on the past, present, and future uses of wild edible plants
and other foragables. We also offer publications: the Wild
Food Adventurer newsletter, a national periodical on wild
foods. The Wild Food Primer, a guide to studying wild foods.
And a bookstore complete with reviews of the best books
available.
Our Mission
Is to help people connect with the Earth, Earth culture,
human history, and the future through the study of edible
plants in natural settings. People who genuinely make these
connections will live more sustainable lifestyles and be
better caretakers of the environment.
Our mission is also to partner with and assist original
North Americans in their efforts to restore and revitalize
traditional foodways. Foodways involve the identification,
collection, transportation, processing, storage, retrieval,
and use of traditional wild foods. We strive to honor and
preserve the wild food knowledge, experiences, and wisdom of
original North Americans.
Edible Wild Plants Defined
Edible wild plants are wild plants with one or more parts that can be used for food if gathered at the appropriate stage of growth, and properly prepared. Edible wild plants could be weeds growing in urban areas to native plants growing in deep wilderness. Foraging Defined / Foragables Defined
Regarding humans and wild foods: Foraging is the process of searching for and gathering food or provisions. As opposed to hunting or fishing. The distinction can be seen in how Native American tribes had a division of labor. The women and children foraged while the men hunted and fished. Foraging can be done to obtain plant products as well as animal products like shellfish, insects, and honey. Foragables are those things that are gathered.
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Areas of Expertise
Edible wild plants and other foragables of North America.
Wild foods of Native Americans. The role wild foods play in
recreational and unplanned survival. Wild Gourmet Garden
Vegetables. Plant identification. Poisonous plants. Sea
vegetables. Processing wild foods. Nutrition of wild foods.
Research in these areas is continually being conducted.
Workshops and Rendezvous involve
trips to a variety of habitats. We visit city streets,
parks, forests, mountains, coastal habitats, farms, lakes,
swamps and more. Some times we look, sometimes we process
foods, sometimes we snack, and sometimes we feast. We always
have fun with wild foods!
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e-mail:
mail@wildfoodadventures.com
