Eat Your Medicine: A Wild Food Foraging and Dining Experience
Eat Your Medicine: A Wild Food Foraging & Dining Experience
Are you interested in learning to use the wild plants around you as food and medicine to support good health?
In this hands-on workshop, clinical herbalist Oren Hercz will teach you to identify, harvest, store, and eat some abundant local medicinals. You'll gain tools for foraging safely and ethically, while also learning about the plants' health benefits in a hands-on sensory way. This means we'll smell, touch, and taste the plants to intuitively grasp their healing properties.
Along the way, we’ll harvest medicinals to make a nourishing wild salad and wild pesto. From the forest to the fork!
About the Instructor
Oren Hercz RHP (HANS) has been in practice as a Clinical Herbalist since 2010, working in holistic health clinics, a family medicine office, and in private practice online.
He helps people living with chronic health issues who want to feel a greater sense of ease and wellness in mind and body. Oren also teaches classes and workshops, empowering people to become their own home herbalists, and is the cofounder of the Maritime School of Holistic Herbalism.
He is a Registered Herbal Practitioner (RHP) with the Herbalist Association of Nova Scotia, where he currently sits on the board of directors. Oren is passionate about building healthy relationships between people and the earth.
He cares deeply about bringing this traditional wisdom to today’s world, where we need it more than ever. You can learn more about Oren at www.orenhercz.ca.
About the Four Course Luncheon in Celebration of Nature
This vegetarian and gluten free luncheon is served el fresco. With collected wild greens, participants create a pesto of foraged greens on flatbread as the main course.
A Peek at the Menu from Foraged Florals
Fresh harvested mixed greens with garlic & olive oil dressing
Pickled dandelion capers
Gluten free flatbread baked in our wood-fired pizza oven, served with roasted garlic
Foraged pesto made of pumpkin seeds, garlic, olive oil, lemon & salt
Chocolate dipped daylilies
Chocolate avocado fudge
Seasonal cordial
Make It a Weekend of Foraging
Foraged Florals is happy to host this workshop with Oren Hercz on our 32 acre forest and permaculture flower farm.
We have a tiny off-grid cabin on our farm, that sleeps two to four, if you want to make a party of it. Or simply stay, enjoy the quiet of the cabin and star gaze. You can book through AirBnB or Hipcamp.
July 14, 10 am - 2 pm / Rain date: Saturday, July 20
Cost $75 plus $11.25 HST
Total Cost $86.25
Please register by July 7th. Minimum of 8 participants required to run the workshop.
