Are you yearning to connect more deeply with Earth? To learn how to harvest the foods and medicines that are growing freely and abundantly all around you? To find your community of like-minded people and break free from the rat race of consumerism?

Foraging School is an opportunity to learn how to identify, harvest and enjoy the abundance of food and medicine that is growing in your region while deepening your connection with Earth and growing your community.

Upcoming Foraging Schools

January 30th-February 1st, 2026 –  Lake Panasoffkee, Florida

**Register for Florida Foraging School here.**

I will be hosting Foraging School along with Eric Joseph Lotus for the Florida community and anyone traveling there! This will be hosted at W.A.N.D.E.R (Wendel & Nancy’s Dream Eden Ranch), a 23-acre food forest sanctuary in Panasoffkee, Florida, the weekend of January 30th-February 1st, 2026. 

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Foraging School Content:

• Identifying, Harvesting and Preparing Wild Food and Medicine
• Foraging Walks and Plant Identification
  • Tips to become a successful forager from me, an experienced forager!
  • Including discussion of toxic plants
  • Identifying plants to avoid and “lookalikes”
  • Timing the harvest and identifying when plants are edible 
• Food Processing and Preservation Experience
  • Including discussing the basics of foraging equipment — drying, freezing, canning and cold storage
  • Including tips for efficiency so you can actually break free from the grocery store 
• Sustainability and Ethics of Foraging
• How and Where to Safely Forage
  • Including discussions on pesticides, industrial pollutants, car exhaust, urban foraging, etc.
• Deepening your Connection with Earth and our Plant Relatives and Living in Reciprocity

We will share communal meals that include some of the foods we forage and I’d like to facilitate our communal food being made from primarily locally grown and foraged foods!

About Foraging School

My focus is to provide you with an opportunity to immerse yourself in a weekend of foraging and return home informed, inspired, motivated and with a sense of community to make foraging a foundational part of your life. I am running Foraging School on a very grassroots level, so that we can focus on foraging, rather than logistics. At the same time, we hope for this to be a practice of connecting deeply with Earth, existing simply and in gratitude for the basics of life, and in breaking free from consumerism and the conveniences of our industrialized lives. 

Weekend Outline. Arrival Friday later afternoon/evening, get settled in, welcome circle Friday evening; classes Saturday morning until Sunday late afternoon; departure Sunday late afternoon/early evening or Monday morning.

Saturday or Sunday attendance is an option as well. See the Welcome Letter for more details on this.

Lodging: Camping on site, with each person being responsible for their own camping gear.

Accessibility for new foragers: I strive for my work to be accessible and open to all. Foraging School will be accommodating even for those who have never foraged a bite of food in their life. In fact, those are the people who stand to gain the most!

Suggested Donation: Sliding scale suggested donation of $100-$300 per adult and $50-$75 per child. Scholarships are available.

For information on food, suggested donations, children, pets and more, please read: Welcome Letter and Community Guidelines.

Rideshare: I have created a community rideshare coordination document for those offering/seeking rides.

Every attendee will receive a copy of my book, Food Freedom: A Year of Growing and Foraging 100% of My Food.

A little about my relationship to foraging: In 2019, I completed a year of growing and foraging 100% of my food and medicine. In 2022, I completed a month of foraging 100% of my food — with no gardens — down to the salt, oil and spices. I began passionately leading plant walks in 2022 and I have a wealth of practical advice to share from experience of how you can truly break free from the global, industrial food system and live happily on the abundance of Earth. At the same time as being a highly experienced forager, I remember what it was like to feel confused and overwhelmed and I am able to meet every new or advanced forager where they are at to be of best service. I would absolutely LOVE to connect with you at Foraging School, sharing my deep experience and relationship with our plant relatives. As of October 9th, 2025, I am immersed in a year of foraging 100% of my food, based in my homeland of Northern Wisconsin.

Apprenticeship/Volunteers

I am seeking an apprentice and volunteers for summer/fall of 2025 in Northern Wisconsin, January-February 2026 in Florida and May-June on the West Coast to assist with my year of foraging 100% of my food. This would be an opportunity for substantial hands-on foraging and food processing/preservation/cooking experience, personal time with me, and to help free up my time so I can be of service and do activism to reach millions with the message of being a steward to Earth and all life we share this home with.

Interested? Learn more here.

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