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Our carefully researched Seasonal Wild Edible Plant courses, our new Tree and Plant Identification courses, and our Primitive Cooking course provide us with a way to share our local botanical expertise and years of wilderness cooking experience.  We are the first school to offer Edible Plant classes for each season and a specialized course on Primitive Cooking.

Plant and Cooking Courses

Seasonal Wild Edible Plants

Organic Gardening

Primitive Cooking

SEASONAL WILD EDIBLE PLANTS

 
Fall Wild Edibles  - Summer Wild Edible Plant Class

Our Seasonal Wild Edible Plant courses focus on the different plants and plant uses of each season.  These are one day classes.  Each course is a guided walk through different habitats, identifying, collecting and frequent sampling wild plant foods, and pointing out harmful plants to avoid.  Each course will cover approximately 40 plants, shrubs and trees, depending on the season.  We will cover proper identification and use of these plants, whether plants are native or introduced, when and where to safely collect plants and conservation techniques.  Each student gets an Earth Connection plant handout with full color photos and written plant information.  A wild edible snacks are a part of each course.  The wild plant snacks are prepared ahead of time, using some modern ingredients and the menu may contain some items with dairy, eggs and/or meat.

Dates and Pricing

These classes are not a haphazard stroll through the park.  A lot of preparation goes into each class, for each person.  Sorry, but NO LAST MINUTE SIGN UPS.

ORGANIC GARDENING 

Our new Organic Gardening course will show you the ins and outs of certified organic gardening for the home gardener.  Whether you have a farm, backyard or just a sunny patio or balcony, you can grow your own food in the safest way available.  Learn about location, soils, soil amendments, composting, animal free gardening (no blood, crap or ground up bones in your soils), tools, garden beds, container gardening, irrigation, seed selection, growing your own seedlings, transplanting, garden plans, crop rotation, pest control, seed saving and much more!!! Each student gets an Earth Connection gardening handout with full color photos and written plant information.  If you care about the food you are eating and want to grow your own, then this class is for you.  

Dates and Pricing

PRIMITIVE COOKING

Deer ribs on green wood grill  -  Heating a Stone Oven

Join us for the ab-original cooking class; often imitated, but never duplicated!  Our Primitive Cooking course will teach the food preparation skills of our ancestors as we use traditional cooking skills to create a feast for the mind and belly.  Basic cooking techniques will be taught and during the course students will construct and use a stone fireplace with reflector, a stone oven and a steam pit.  Other cooking methods to be covered are rock frying, coal baking, rock boiling in wooden bowls and a deer hide, clay baking and an Algonquin style green wood grill "Barbecue".  Eating utensils, cooking containers and other subjects will be covered. A lunch, snacks and a big dinner will also be part of this course.  The menu for this course uses some modern ingredients; and will include many kinds of meat prepared in different ways.

Not recommended for Vegans, vegetarians, those with high cholesterol or those with heart problems.

Dates and Pricing

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