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Join us for an immersive experience to use local and foraged wild foods creatively!
We will take the day to forage and glean locally, then learn how to make wonderfully wild foods through fermentation, pickling, cooking, preserving, and creatively adding the weedy wonders under your feet to add healthy vitality to your daily life.
We will enjoy the abundance of edible plants in the Blue Ridge with Herbalist, Cook, and Forager Colleen O'Bryant.
We'll be in the forest, rivers, and mountains near Sperryville to identify local wild edible plants. You'll learn sustainable and ethical harvesting through practical techniques, preservation, and cooking.
We will walk along fields, rivers, and streams to gather and then head back to the outdoor kitchen along the river for a collective and hands-on cooking experience. We will have at least one foraged concoction(ferments, spoon salt, vinegar, and more) that you intuitively put together, plus a recipe guide for you to use at a later date.
Our foraging areas are mainly on the indigenous land of the Manahoac and Shawnee tribes. We will donate 10% of the ticket to support indigenous healers and the BIPOC community through our gardens and herbs.
Join one or all of our seasonal adventures. Classes hosted April-June and September -October 2024.
Spring & Early Summer Workshops
Explore plants like Dandelions, Cattails, Sassafras, Violets, Nettles, Clovers, Wild Onions, Garlic Mustard, fantastic fungi, Mimosa Tree, Wild Flowers, Berries, Elderflowers, Milkweed, Day Lilies, Mugwort, Purslane, and Quickweed and more.
Late Summer & Autumn Workshops
Explore plants like Sumac, Juniper Berries, Spicebush, Dandelion Roots, Chestnuts, Burdock, Paw Paws, Black Walnuts, Primroses, Field Garlic, Wild mustards, Persimmons, Autumn olives, Acorns and more.
For the forage, we will explore around the apothecary and then make our bounty delicious with easy preps and brews, infusions, and playful recipes that you can take home with you.
Each workshop is limited to 12 participants. Please leave a note on your order oremail us as soon as possiblewith any questions, concerns or dietary information you'd like to share with us.
Your Guide and Teacher,
Colleen O'Bryant is a practicing herbalist, creative forager + cook, teacher, and owner of Wild Roots Apothecary in Sperryville. Her goal is to help people deepen their connection to the plant world by experiencing the plants in their natural surroundings and opening the door to both traditional and transcending herbal experiences. When she's not working, she enjoys jumping into all the rivers and ponds around, hunting for mushrooms, exploring astrology and intuitive magic, fly fishing, and traveling to other places that have excellent plants and more magic.
