Tag: <span>workshop</span>

Fall Workshops/Deadlines and Fall Fairs and Markets

We are a couple days away from the Rock Creek Fall Fair, a regional fair in the Boundary area of BC, showcasing the area’s agriculture, cottage industry, skills and more. We will be among the various handcrafted vendors with Ashley’s Ashtree Wildcrafting, featuring all 17 of her wildcrafted tea blends, …

End of July Update: Foraging, markets, textbook, and Fall Calendar

Looking back over July, it has been quite the month! We were at the Fintry Bat Festival and a couple mini markets as well. The mini-markets outdid themselves in the sales we made. Just because it’s small, doesn’t mean it isn’t worth one’s time, and these two did not disappoint …

Spring Wellness Fair and 3 Days Crammed Into One for a Home School Workshop Adventure!

Well, well, well. . . if that weekend wasn’t another knock-em-out-of-the-park whirlwind! We attended both the Vernon Wellness Fair on Saturday and Sunday, as well as put on a concatenated version of my 3-day Make Your Own Trailkit Advanced Foraging Workshop on Monday! What made the wellness fair successful wasn’t …

A Flea Market Out Front, Drama Out Back! Welcome to February!

February began with concerns around household income, everyone asking God to intervene in our finances, when a flea market in Rutland jumped off the screen at me.  Ashley said sure, we could try, so I contacted the guy.  We missed the first week of February, but got in yesterday. Initially, …

Dates Set and Registration Open for 2025 Advanced Foraging Workshops

Thanks to those of you who have shared that, in general, you are interested in these workshops. I’ve been looking at behind-the-scenes todo lists, and brainstorming ways to offer the advanced foraging workshops. Such brainstorming has led to something I am very excited about!!! The Field Kitchen!!! This weekend, I …

Working Draft of 2025 Advanced Foraging Workshops

This went out first to my newsletter subscribers and is now posted here as well. To get on the newsletter, fill out the form to the left of this article, or click here if on a small screen that doesn’t show the left hand sidebar.  You’ll be automatically notified whenever …

Late Fall/Winter Foraging Workshop/Trail Tour Fun and Discoveries! Smiles All Around!

Today we held a very successful, upbeat, fun, and informative late fall/early winter foraging workshop and trail tour. We chose a trail we haven’t been on before, in a new regional park in the area. To my surprise, a fair bit of ground-based foraging was still to be found to …

Today’s Foraging Workshop and a Lightning Strike!

So we ran our first foraging workshop today with one attendee, taking her to a trail often frequented by other foragers, but that we hadn’t scouted out yet for what is growing there this year. The workshop portion took roughly 30-35 minutes. But by the time we were done with …