Congratulations to the first 5 students to receive The Resiliency Institute Edible Wild Plants Certificate!
These students dedicated themselves to learning 220 local edible wild plants over the course of one year, prepared edible wild plant recipes, and passed four exams to earn their certificate. On Tuesday, we enjoyed a wild plant potluck and graduation celebration in their honor.
At the potluck we enjoyed so many delicious foods - wild spinach bake, wild lasagna, wild rice and mushroom casserole, sauteed wild greens, wild green salad, hazelnut banana bread, stinging nettles ice cream, elderberry brownies, lemon balm tea, stinging nettle infusion, and many other scrumptious creations. The potluck was so satisfying, we would love to continue to host them. Keep your eye on our emails and calendar to see when the next one is and be sure to come.
The graduates received a certificate and a recipe book filled with all of the recipes prepared during their four courses. We have a few for sale at $10 each. Be sure to ask for one at our next class or event.
"Harvesting wild food is the oldest and most basic subsistence activity of humankind, but today we live in a world where these skills are almost lost. Foraging is the missing link in modern civilized cultures - it is this direct physical connection, in the form of sustenance, which brings us to our deepest appreciation and understanding of the natural world." ~Sam Thayer
Registration has begun for the Summer Edible Wild Plants course - Feast on Flowers - which begins Wednesday, June 25th. The course is open to everyone who has basic plant identification skills and is not limited to people pursuing a certificate.
