Wild Food & Foraging Courses... Hi. My first wild food and foraging courses of 2024 will be taking place on the weekend of 16th/17th March. I hope you can join me... Saturday 16th: Birch: Food, Medicine, Magic & Myth. 10am - 2pm. Leeds Birch trees were highly respected and held in high-esteem all across the northern hemisphere for millennia, providing our ancestors with a myriad of useful and seasonal resources in both a practical and spiritual sense. This course will explore the multitude of potential resources Birch trees have to offer and hopefully, herald a return to the respectful and intimate relationships we once had with Birch (and wider nature). As a group we will get practical, theoretical and magical with; sap extraction & syrup making, pollen, catkins, edible & medicinal fungi, fire lighting, storage containers, birch tar, withies, habitat, ecology and of course the magic and spirit of Birch. Samples and tasters and a wild spring-time soup are included in
If you would like to learn more about the natural, medicinal aspects of wild mushrooms for maintaining, balancing, optimising and enhancing personal health and/or that of others, then this course is for you. This course will focus on a select range of wild mushrooms that can be incorporated into our seasonal diets and also turned into more potent and powerful forms of natural medicine. Participants will learn how to: . Safely identify a range of specific medicinal mushrooms . Mindfully harvest, prepare and store them . Create simple tinctures . Create double extraction tinctures . Create concentrated extract powders (with long shelf-life compatibility) . Incorporate into diets in very simple ways . Learn about the proven and potential health benefits of those mushrooms We will also explore the theme of micro-dosing with psychedelic and psychoactive medicinal mushrooms. Simple refreshments will also be provided on the day.. Price: £55pp Booking essential: edible.leeds@gmail.com L