Foraging School with Robin Greenfield – Summer 2024 in Washington

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 this abundance of food and medicine that is growing in our communities! July 12th-14th in the Port Townsend, Washington area.

Foraging School Content:

• Identifying, Harvesting and Preparing Wild Food and Medicine
• Foraging Walks and Plant Identification (daily)
  • 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 Hands-On 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!

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. 

Location: Port Townsend, Washington

Dates: July 12th-14th. Arrival Friday afternoon or evening, get settled in, welcome circle Friday evening; classes Saturday morning until Sunday late afternoon; departure Sunday late afternoon/evening or Monday morning.

Foraging School is also available as just a Saturday or just a Sunday attendance 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 (tent, sleeping gear, etc.). Camping in your own vehicles will be available as well.

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 in their life. In fact, those are the people who stand to gain the most!

For information on food, suggested donations, service trade, scholarships, children, pets and communal chores, please read the Welcome Letter and Community Guidelines. Please make sure to read this prior to registration.

Register Here

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

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

A little about my relationship to foraging: In 2019, I completed an entire 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. I would absolutely LOVE to connect with you at Foraging School, sharing my deep experience and relationship with our plant relatives.

Foraging inspiration:

Visit My Foraging Guide for New Foragers!

Go on a plant walk with me from your seat at home: