Wild Edible & Medicinal Plants Course 2023 – WA

Wild Edible & Medicinal Plants Course Details:

Learn how to utilize a diversity of native wild plants for food & medicine! This course covers a full range of uses, from quick emergency survival foods to incorporating wild plants into culinary dishes, and the how-to of making salves, tinctures, decoctions, and infusions, as well as using fresh wild plants for first aid situations. Class is a mixture of practical information, slideshows, and hands-on field-based practice with local plants.

Participants learn plant identification, ethical harvesting techniques, cooking, and preserving wild edibles. You create a salve and tincture to take home. Students gain a hands-on knowledge of wild edible & medicinal plants that can be incorporated into everyday life!

The Wild Edible & Medicinal Plants Course covers:

Plant identification techniques
Ethical harvesting and safety considerations
Recipes for making meals from wild edibles
Creating tinctures, salves, infusions, decoctions, etc…
Hands-on practice with harvesting and preparing plant medicines
Detailed information on key edible & medicinal plants in North America