Fall Foraging at Foxfire
Sat, Oct 03
|Foxfire Museum & Heritage Center
Join us for a wild foods foraging adventure at the Foxfire Museum & Heritage Center in Southern Appalachia - one of the most botanically diverse regions of the world! Build confidence identifying useful plants in the wild and gain valuable resources and recipes to advance your foraging skills.
Time & Location
Oct 03, 2020, 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Foxfire Museum & Heritage Center, 98 Foxfire Ln, Mountain City, GA 30562, USA
About the Event
The multicolored autumn forest provide an abundance of wonderful wild food medicine including roots, leaves, flowers, bark, seeds, and nuts. Many herbaceous fall plants help to strengthen our respiratory and immune systems in preparation for winter. Learn to make kitchen medicine with wild and immune-boosting ingredients. We’ll also whip up a batch of goldenrod cornbread to celebrate this wonderful time to be outdoors in the North Georgia Mountains.
What you might expect to see: goldenrod, sassafras, sumac, oak, chestnut, persimmon, rosehips, spicebush, black walnut, wild grapes, wild asters, rabbit tobacco.
Participants should bring a bagged lunch, water bottle, and wear closed-toe shoes with socks. Long pants are preferable. Other suggested items include a backpack, journal and pen, bug spray, suncreen, hat, and anything else you need to be comfortable outdoors.
Please note: this workshop takes place in a wilderness setting. There will be access to restroom facilities. When walking on…