“One of the first real signs of spring, and one of my favourite wild foods, are the new nettle shoots that start poking out of the ground early in the spring. At a time when we’ve been living on frozen veggies, or cabbage and root vegetables, fresh greens are a welcome sight. Plus nettles are actually good for us! Nettles are extremely rich in vital nutrients, including vitamin D, which is rare in plants; vitamins C and A; and minerals, including iron, calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium.” -Dora Fitzgerald

This foraging workshop will give you a fascinating insight into one of the best wild foods of the season. You will go on a woodland foraging walk with Dora and learn about when and how to pick nettles for a sustainable harvest and the highest nutritional value. You will also learn about other edible greens. We will then go to the South Hall and Dora will share some of her incredible “Green Bull” nettle drink, and you will learn how to make Dora’s Nettle Salt.

We will enjoy a delicious lunch together, based around wild Galiano-foraged ingredients. Participants will also get to take home a nettle plant start, whether to start your own nettle patch in your backyard, or engage in some guerrilla gardening by planting your start in a clean wild place where it can grow unattended. Each workshop participant will also receive a container of nettle salt to take home with them. Please bring: rain gear, gloves, kitchen scissors, and a collecting bag (a cloth grocery bag works fine).

$75 per workshop*.

Early bird special!! Register before April 1 and get 20% off.

Join us for the whole weekend and attend all three workshops for only $180*.