Easter Foraging & Outdoor Cooking Class

Grab your foraging basket and let’s go to the woods! Whether you’re new to foraging or have years of experience, Northwest Natura’s Foraging & Cooking classes will introduce you to new recipes, plant wisdom, and outdoor skills.

Learn how to incorporate wild foods into your diet in a meaningful, practical, and sustainable way.

Date: Sunday April 20th, 2025 (Easter)

Time: 1pm to 5:30pm

Location: Northwest Natura Land near Maple Falls

Join Salish Sea Naturalist and Outdoor Educator, Jazmen Yoder on a day of foraging out in the woods and cooking over a campfire with cast iron.

What’s included and what to expect:

The first part of class will be a walk in the woods foraging for various edible plants and mushrooms. For each species, we’ll talk about how to identify it, it’s edibility or medicinal properties, how to prepare it for medicine or food, and how we could use it in our meal.

In the second portion of this course, we will cook together in cast iron over a fire with the plants we foraged.

Recipes we will follow will integrate fresh produce and other ingredients such as cheeses, and elements to make breads, drizzles and dressings with our foraged finds.

Tuition includes store-bought ingredients used in this course.

Key takeaways:

• Edible Plant Identification

• Poisonous Plant Identification

• Honorable harvest methods

• Learn new recipes

• Practice cooking over a campfire

• Learn to incorporate wild foods into meals you can cook at home

• Make friends and find community in a small group cooking workshop

Class size is limited to 12. Group cooking sessions will be done by small groups of 3 or 4 per recipe.

Things to bring with you to class:

1. Dress for the weather (warm outdoor clothing)

2. Snacks and water

3. Foraging Basket or Bag

4. Mess kit (bowl, plate, fork, spoon)

5. Notebook and pen (optional)

6. Camera (optional)

7. Your favorite field guide (optional)

8. Face mask or gaiter.

9. Something to sit on (mat or blanket)

Registered individuals will receive an event-reminder email a few days prior to the event.