Fall Foraging: Wild Foods Useful Plants (9/23)

Christopher Nyerges, SchoolofSelf-Reliance.com (Wild Food Discovery Meetup); Seven, Ananda, Xochitl, Jen B. (Dharma Buddhist Meditation Meetup) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Autumn Foraging: Wild Food and Useful Plants by Season

Guide to Wild Foods, Plants

This series of workshops, one each season, shows nature through the seasons, from a wild plant forager’s perspective.

The essence of this class is to develop seasonal knowledge and observational skills:

• How to look
• Where to look
• What to look for
• Responsible sustainable gathering
• Seed and cutting collection to grow plants in backyard.

Hoe to Survive Anywhere (2nd Ed.)

Learn to identify and collect foods, medicines, soaps, fire-making materials, and other useful parts of wild plants.

Learn to think like foragers of the past, who had to have an intimate knowledge of the seasons and foresight about what was to come in the future. (For example, sometimes no foraging is done in an area if the plant or seed is not yet abundant).

Join us (School of Self-Reliance) each quarter for an insightful walk into a wild area in Los Angeles, with a focus on interpreting what’s available each season. This is a land of abundance, just as it was for the Kizh/Tongva Indians for thousands of years before colonization.

Each session includes demonstrations, hands on practice, and sampling of seasonal foods. Each session includes a list of what is normally available each season.

AUTUMN

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In early autumn, it is usually dry, and plants are usually in a dormant phase. It’s typically hot and dehydrated. Streams are usually not flowing or running low. What can be found in these conditions?

Only the hardiest plants for eating, such as many varieties of brightly colored mustards and sages. There might still be some manzanitas left to collect. Acorns will just be starting to mature and fall.

Though it’s early for toyon berries, we’ll be able to observe the sort of harvestable crop to come. We’ll be able to take note of what to look for in the next few months. We’ll also share some bushcrafting skills.

• Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023, 10:00 am
• LOCATION: San Gabriel Mountains
• (Meeting location sent on registration)
• Class fee: $65 (student/senior $45)
• Register prior to class: schoolofself-reliance.com/event/autumn-foraging-wild-food-and-useful-plants-by-the-season