Forage your way to well-being

Making Food out of Wild Plants 26th November
(Last kitchen workshop until next winter - there's 2 spaces left)

Come learn how to make nutritious yummy food out of wild edible plants/herbs

Workshop will be held on Sunday 26th of November at 10.30am. South Nelson

Preparation of the plants is important to create good flavors, we will be
• learning about nutrition and health benefits
• Making green smoothies with lots of organic super foods some of which are spices/nuts/seeds/protein powder etc and learning what they are good for
• Making a yummy wild edible plant salad
• Taste testing Wild edible plant pesto and recipes
• Herbal teas
• You will go away with a full belly of goodness (plenty of herbal teas, a smoothie, salad and pesto) and much more

The workshop will take approx 3.5-4 hours (maybe put aside 4 hours as I often run over time) and the exchange will be a minimum of $65

There is limited spaces left for this workshop so if you would like to register please PM me your email and phone number and I will email you my bank details and the rest of the info

Warmly
Cynthia

Making Food out of Wild Plants
(3 spaces left)

Come learn how to make nutritious yummy food out of wild edible plants/herbs

Workshop will be held on Sunday 26th of November at 10.30am in South Nelson

Preparation of the plants is important to create good flavors
We will ID pre picked foraged wild plants
• learn about nutrition and health benefits
• Making green smoothies with lots of organic super foods/spices/nuts/seeds and learning what they are good for
• Making a yummy wild edible plant salad
• Taste testing Wild edible plant pesto and recipes
• Herbal teas
• You will go away with a full belly of goodness (plenty of herbal teas, a smoothie, salad and pesto) and much more

The workshop will take approx 3.5-4 hours (maybe put aside 4 hours as I often run over time) and the exchange will be a minimum of $65 and an optional additional koha if you feel the value of what you have received is worth more to you.

Please PM me if you would like to register with your email and phone number and you will receive the rest of the info needed once you have booked in

Warmly
Cynthia

Hey Keen Foragers, this months Nelson mag has just come out if you are keen for a wee read. I'm running a workshop on Sunday 15th of October at 12.30pm for approx 4 hours in Nelson. If you are interested, check out my FBpage with the info and PM me to register. My article covers 4 pages so hope you can get to read it all from this link below.

Nelson Magazine - October 2023 Nelson Magazine - October 2023

15th October Foraging Workshop and Fun afternoon out
Come learn about wild edible plants/herbs, nutrition, connecting and grounding.
• how to identify them on a lovely walk in the Grampians and in my garden
• learning about some of their nutritional properties and healing qualities
• connecting with them in a honoring way
• Abundance of free food. We will identify about 45+ different edibles
Join us on Sunday 15th of October at 12.30pm
We will meet in the Grampians and then head to my garden in South Nelson
The workshop will take approx 4 hours and in exchange a fee of 50 dollars
Children from 9 years and up are also welcome
There are limited spaces
Please PM me to register with your email so I can send you the full details of location and what to bring etc
I look forward to sharing time with you
Warmly
Cynthia

Foraging Workshop and Fun afternoon out
Come learn about wild edible plants/herbs, nutrition, connecting and grounding.
• how to identify them on a lovely walk in the Grampians and in my garden
• learning about some of their nutritional properties and healing qualities
• connecting with them in a honoring way
• Abundance of free food. We will identify about 45+ different edibles
Join us on Sunday 6th of August at 12.30pm
We will meet in the Grampians and then head to my garden in South Nelson
The workshop will take approx 4 hours and in exchange a fee of 50 dollars
Children from 9 years and up are also welcome
There are limited spaces
Please PM me to register and your email so I can send you the full details of location and what to bring etc
I look forward to sharing time with you
Warmly
Cynthia

The rain is bringing back the mushrooms so keep your eyes peeled foragers. I've just picked a large basket full of oyster mushrooms. They seem to like growing on dead cabbage trees. I'm also seeing lots of new fresh green growth from the plants that have already dropped their seed so I'll be looking to run a summer workshop sometime soon as there are also summer plants here now that aren't around in the autumn, winter and spring . PM me with your phone number if you are keen for me to put you on my wait list

Anyone interested in Sweet Organic Plums $5 per kg freshly picked today. Red skins and golden yellow in the inside. PM me to order and it's pick up from my place.

Guide Lines for a Honorable Harvest

- Know the ways of the ones who take care of you, so that you may take care of them
- Introduce yourself. Be accountable as the one who asks for life
- Ask permission before taking. Abide by the answer
- Never take the first. Never take the last
- Take only what you need
- Take only which is given
- Never take more than half. Leave some for others
- Harvest in a way that minimizes harm
- Use it respectfully. Never waste what you have taken
- Share
- Give thanks for what you have been given
- Give a gift, in reciprocity for what you have taken
- Sustain the ones who sustain you and the earth will last forever

written in a beautiful book and a highly recommended read
Braiding Sweetgrass
Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and Teachings of Plants
by; Robin Wall Kimmerer

Is any one interested in some nettle plants for their garden? If so please PM me as they have been dug out and are ready to be picked up

Making Food out of Wild Plants

Come learn how to make nutritious yummy food out of wild edible plants/herbs

Workshop will be held on Sunday 14th of August at 10.30am in Nelson

Preparation of the plants is important to create good flavors we will be
• learning about nutrition and health benefits
• Making green smoothies with lots of organic super foods/spices and learning what they are good for
• Making a yummy wild edible plant salad
• Taste testing Wild edible plant pesto and recipes
• Herbal teas
• You will go away with a full belly of goodness (plenty of herbal teas, a smoothie, salad and pesto) and much more

The workshop will take approx 3-4 hours ( put aside 4 hours as I often run over time)

There are limited spaces available

To register/ book in Please PM me and send me your email address so I can send you the location and rest of the details for the workshop.

I look forward to sharing the goodness with you
Cheers
Cynthia

What a great afternoon we had with all the children and some of the parents learning about lots of wild edible plants and getting to taste them all. They got to experience opening up all their senses and connecting in to themselves and their environment in a deeper way. They were with the true beauty of the plant and saw that we are the same as the plant on so many levels. Two children expressed that what they had common with the plant is that they are both LOVE. True wisdom there!!! Many thanks to Valma for the lovely photos to share 🥰

Foraging Workshop and Fun afternoon out
Come learn about wild edible plants/herbs, nutrition, connecting and grounding.

• how to identify them on a lovely walk in the Grampians and in my garden
• learning about some of their nutritional properties and healing qualities
• connecting with them in a honoring way
• Abundance of free food. We will identify about 45+ different edibles
Join us on Sunday 5th of June at 1.00pm
We will meet in the Grampians and then head to my garden in South Nelson
The workshop will take approx 4 hours
Children from 9 years and up are also welcome
There are limited spaces
Please PM me your email for more details and to register.
I look forward to sharing time with you
Cheers
Cynthia

The Foraging workshop for the children aged 5- 8yrs is happening. Sat. 11th June at 1pm for 2hours. view post below

I''ve just harvested Fathen seeds to use as grain and cooking them tonight for dinner. I would have shown many of you the plant while we have been out foraging. Now's the time as it's going into seed in NZ. Found this awesome wee video made by a fellow forager in the UK that you might like to watch :)

Collecting and using Fat hen (Chenopodium album) seeds "Wild Quinoa" How to collect and use the nutritious seeds of Fat hen (Chenopodium album)A close relative to quinoaHow to identify Fat hen, it's the first plant I look at i...

Making Food out of Wild Plants

Come learn how to make nutritious yummy food out of wild edible plants/herbs

Workshop will be held on Sunday 8th of May at 10.30am in Nelson

Preparation of the plants is important to create good flavors
• learning about nutrition and health benefits
• Making green smoothies with lots of super foods and learning what they are good for
• Making a yummy wild edible plant salad
• Taste testing Wild edible plant pesto and recipes
• Herbal teas
• You will go away with a full belly of goodness and much more

The workshop will take approx 3 hours (maybe put aside 4 hours just in case we run over time)
Please PM me with you email if you would like to book in and for the location of the workshop

Forage your way to Well-Being

Come learn about wild edible plants/herbs, nutrition, connecting and grounding.

A fun day building community connections and resilience

• how to identify them on a lovely walk in the Grampians and in a private garden in South Nelson
• learning about some of their nutritional properties and healing qualities
• connecting with the plants in a honoring way
• Abundance of free food. We will identify about 45+ different edibles
Sunday 10th of April at 1.00pm
The workshop will take approx 4 hours
The invite is open so feel free to invite your friends and family (children can also join if they are 9years old and over)
Please PM me with you email if you are interested in booking in and I will send you all the info and details for the workshop. Numbers are limited

Summer Wild Food Foraging Workshop
Sunday 20th Feb @ 1pm
PM me if you are interested and I'll send you more details

Hey keen foragers, I'm running a workshop this Sunday the !7th of Oct and have one space left. If anyone is interested to book that space please PM me with your email and phone number and I'll send you the info 😄

Building Community Resilience and paying it forward. I'm grateful the wonderful opportunity; To be supported by Neighborhood Support to gift a free foraging workshop to some of the people that volunteered their time planting fruit, nuts and berries in the Cattle Market Reserve. It's important that our communities can forage for free nutritious food.

It's the the perfect time of year to be out Foraging. After all this rain new growth coming on. This winter I ran an introductory workshop at Tim's Gardens. There was a great turn out of 25 enthusiastic beautiful people. Now it's time to run some more workshops out on the field. If anyone is keen or have friends that want to create more resilience in their life by learning more about wild edible plants PM me and we can create space to explore together. 😀

I'm feeling super grateful to have shared yesterday afternoon with so many beautiful people, building community resilience / learning and connecting with the plants and everything around us.
A big thank you to Tuia Marama for taking all the photos

It's the the perfect time of year to be out Foraging. After all this rain new growth coming on. This week I ran an introductory workshop at Tim's Gardens. There was a great turn out of 25 enthusiastic beautiful people. Now it's time to run some more workshops out on the field. If anyone is keen or have friends that want to create more resilience in their life by learning more about wild edible plants PM me and we can create space to explore together. 😀

What an incredible weekend !!! Thanks to all those who came to my workshops on Saturday and Sunday, I feeling so grateful to have met you all. Thank you for sharing parts of yourselves and your knowledge, it makes it so much richer when we can co create within the workshop. We ID'ed over 50 plants/flowers along with fruit and nuts trees. I advertised the workshops to be 2 - 2.5 hours long.....and I'm sorry for running way over time on both. I have learnt 20 new plants since last season and had no idea that it would take another 1.5 hours to share them with you out on the field and still had heaps to share in which we didn't have time for. If you feel moved to write your experience under the review section on my page that would be much appreciated :)
Please feel free pass on my details to spread the word to the people you think might enjoy a workshop. Cheers Cynthia PS. Someone lost their beanie on Saturday and I have it, so please PM me so you can keep on keeping your head warm :)

One place left....for this Sunday's workshop at 11am "Making food with Wild Edible Plants"

Hi everyone,
Welcome to my new page :)
It's a great time for foraging and soon I will be running workshops again. In the mean time I thought I would share a video that I produced some years ago. This is it's first time to be up loaded live on the internet and it has also gone up on YouTube. It feels like now is such a potent time to be creating resilience within our selves, our communities and a deeper connection with mother earth.
If you are interested in joining one of my workshops or keeping updated about wild edible plants and nutrition then please follow/like this page and feel free to message me.
I am based in Nelson and look forward to sharing and connecting with you.
Cynthia

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