Wild Edible Plants: Summer Session
Welcome! We’re excited to have you join us for an engaging wild plant experience that includes one online session and two in-person weekend field days. This hands-on course will give you the opportunity to learn practical skills while connecting with a community of fellow plant lovers and foragers.
This class is great for the beginner to advanced student—there is something for everyone!
The intentions for this class include:
• Gaining confidence in identifying plants
• Practicing ethical and safe harvesting techniques and wisdom
• Learning to recognize local toxic and poisonous plants
• Exploring wild plant nutrition and proper preparation for health benefits
• Understanding how to process edible plants for long-term storage
• Building foundational Naturalist Awareness
• Developing ecological knowledge and a Forager’s Stewardship mindset
• Creating wild plant recipes that taste good!
• Discovering books, local resources, and teachers to continue your plant journey!
Summer Session Wild Foods Focus:
Each Wild Edibles course focuses on seasonal foods based on what is best to harvest at that time. We will focus on ALL the wild foraging plants available with a special summer focus on:
Wild Berries
Wild Seaweeds
Wild Flowers/Some seeds
Wild Late Season Greens
What to bring:
• Notebook for notes/writing utensil
• Lunch/Snacks and Water (we will have a lunch session that will be 20-30 minutes long)
• Harvesting Bag (can be a cloth or paper grocery bag)
• Scissors or Pruners
Class Details
Friday, July 18th, 7:00pm-8:15pm, Online Presentation
Saturday, July 19, 9:00am-4:00pm, In-person
Sunday, July 20, 9:00am-4:00pm, In-person
Location:
TBA (Port Townsend outlying area)
Instructor:
Lindsay Huettman
Tuition:
$285
Ages:
16+ (minors must be accompanied by a registered adult)
Meet Your Instructor
Lindsay Huettman
Lindsay loves plants of the Pacific Northwest. She brings over 25 years of experience with native plants, organic gardening/farming, plant fibers/dyes, ethnobotany, permaculture, arboriculture, plant science and emotional/physical survival skills. She carries a deep respect and love for the natural world. Her primary passion is connecting humans to wild places through plants as a vehicle to inner awareness, deep connection to the earth and confidence with plants as allies.
Lindsay's deep love of plants, learning about and from Native American Peoples, inspired her to complete a bachelor's degree at Western Washington University in Ethnobotany Stewardship Education in 2006.
Her other passions include leading mindfulness and intuitive tracking expeditions, PNW Geology, birdwatching, playing music, wilderness medicine, homesteading skills and rites of passage/initiation work. She also has a background in native plant landscaping, horse packing/trail guiding, teaching mindfulness meditation and whitewater rafting.
After working in transformational outdoor programs for many years, Lindsay decided to complete a Masters in Counseling Psychology and is an LMHC (Licensed Mental Health Counselor) with a specialization in ecological grief, trauma and anxiety/panic disorders. She combines this therapeutic expertise with her many years as a wilderness guide to provide transformational experiences to support self-realization, community connection and relationship with the earth.