Forage Club

Do you want to get more tuned in with the plants, animals & fungi growing around you? Would you like to eat from the wild and learn more about foraging and wild tending in a supportive group? Are you desiring to make a positive ecological impact? This is what Forage Club is all about.

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Join us for twice-monthly meetups around Asheville, NC to harvest wild edibles and tend our ecosystem. One meetup per month will focus on identifying, harvesting and processing wild plants, mushrooms and more into food, medicine and materials. This is not a typical foraging class. It will be a hands-on experience where we focus on the collaboratively gathering from our landscape and preserving our harvest.

The other monthly meetup will focus on wild tending, planting fruit trees in collaboration with local organizations and taking care of our ecosystem. This is a way to pay it forward to those who will come after us and to see how we as humans can positively effect the land, as our Creator meant for us to.

If you are an organization interested in getting involved, please email healingecosystems@gmail.com

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Forage Club is supported by a donation-based membership model as well as funds from grants, donors and product sales. If you’re interested in joining, you can sign up here and leave a donation amount. Emails will be sent to active members at the start of each month with plans on where and what we are foraging as well as the plan for our monthly stewardship project. Join for whichever you can.

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Friends processing a huge flush of Chicken of the Woods (Laetiporous cincinnatus) at our 4th annual mushroom camp.



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Showing off a healthy specimen of one of the most poisonous plants in North America - Poison Hemlock (Conium maculatum). From Foraging Adventures class in Bay Area, CA 2019

Participants in our Bioregional Solutions workshop digging up Japanese Knotweed (Reynoutria japonica) root for medicine making.

The flower buds of Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) are among 4 distinct vegetables that come from this plant at different stages of it’s development. These buds can be steamed or sauteed and taste like a more floral version of broccoli.