
Feast & Forage: A Wild Foods Cooking Experience
Returning Spring 2025! Pre-Register by clicking the "Notify Me When Available" button below! 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