FORAGING TOURS : What's in your Backyard, Neighbourhood or In-Season?
Learn foraging skills and how to identify, harvest, prepare and store your finds.
Let's Go For a Stroll!
Join me for immersive walks through living landscapes in Victoria, BC. This hands-on experience is an exploration of the land and plants that have nourished body and spirit for millennia, through the lens of story, science, and tradition.
Local Learning Tours:
Beacon Hill Park
One of Victoria’s oldest and most sacred landscapes. Learn to identify edible and medicinal plant species, and understand their historical and healing uses. Learn to recognize native and introduced plant species, with instruction on ethical foraging practices where appropriate. Discover Victoria's geology and glacial legacy. It's not just about identifying plants, it's about the relationships that connect us with the living land.
Dallas Rd Beach (Tide Dependant)
Explore Victoria’s dynamic coastal edge along Dallas Road, where land meets sea. Explore the native and non-native plants that call the upper cliffs home, and learn about the archeological sites along the cliff line. Wander tide pools and seaweed beds at low tide while discovering harvesting practices, marine ecology, and the healing gifts of ocean plants.
Custom Edible & Medicinal Plant Walks
Create your personal neighbourhood or park tour. Which are your favourite walks, natural landscapes, and beaches in and around Victoria? I'd love to help you create the perfect educational, hands-on personal walk for yourself, a group, or your organization.
My Edible & Medicinal Plants Walks are an excellent team-building experience for groups of up to 12 participants, ideal for companies with Employee Wellness Programs seeking a unique health and wellness model that extends beyond the garden gate.
Local Learning Tours:
Beacon Hill Park
One of Victoria’s oldest and most sacred landscapes. Learn to identify edible and medicinal plant species, and understand their historical and healing uses. Learn to recognize native and introduced plant species, with instruction on ethical foraging practices where appropriate. Discover Victoria's geology and glacial legacy. It's not just about identifying plants, it's about the relationships that connect us with the living land.
Dallas Rd Beach (Tide Dependant)
Explore Victoria’s dynamic coastal edge along Dallas Road, where land meets sea. Explore the native and non-native plants that call the upper cliffs home, and learn about the archeological sites along the cliff line. Wander tide pools and seaweed beds at low tide while discovering harvesting practices, marine ecology, and the healing gifts of ocean plants.
Custom Edible & Medicinal Plant Walks
Create your personal neighbourhood or park tour. Which are your favourite walks, natural landscapes, and beaches in and around Victoria? I'd love to help you create the perfect educational, hands-on personal walk for yourself, a group, or your organization.
My Edible & Medicinal Plants Walks are an excellent team-building experience for groups of up to 12 participants, ideal for companies with Employee Wellness Programs seeking a unique health and wellness model that extends beyond the garden gate.
What's in your Backyard?
Curious to know what you have in your backyard and how to use it? Book a private session to discover your backyard's edible and medicinal treasures! Once you know what you can use in the kitchen and for your natural medicine cabinet, take it to the next level; I can help you plan your own Medicine or Edible Garden for year-round, fresh, organic vegetables, herbs, and medicinal plants. No garden is too small – you’d be amazed at what you can plant in a small space, in containers, or on your balcony.
Initial Garden Consultation and Plant ID: min 1 hour starting at $125.
Consult includes a list of plants and their edible or medicinal properties, how to harvest and process your plants, and gardening advice for a flourishing garden.
Initial Garden Consultation and Plant ID: min 1 hour starting at $125.
Consult includes a list of plants and their edible or medicinal properties, how to harvest and process your plants, and gardening advice for a flourishing garden.
What's in your Neighbourhood?
Urban foraging is a fun way to get to know the neighbours and your neighbourhood. There are many places to find edible and medicinal plants in your town or city. Whether you want to identify your local plants for fun and knowledge or learn how to harvest for food and medicine ethically and responsibly, we can walk and learn in the neighbourhoods, parks, and beaches of the Greater Victoria area.
Urban Foraging Walks: min 1 hour starting at $125. Group rates are available upon request.
Urban Foraging Walks: min 1 hour starting at $125. Group rates are available upon request.
What's in Season?
Eating for the Season is an approach to health and wellness that emphasizes eating the freshest fruits, vegetables, and herbs at the height of their growing season. As summer comes to a close, many vegetables are ready for harvest, from tomatoes fresh off the vine, carrots, and beets out of the ground, crisp salad green, kale, and char, there is lots to eat at this of the year. Out in the forest, the wild mushrooms are starting to appear with the cooler weather and late summer rains, blackberries, salal berries and hawthorn berries are ready to harvest, along with wild apples and evergreen huckleberries. There is such an abundance to harvest!
Want to know more about Eating for the Season and how to incorporate this approach to wellness into your diet? Book a consultation session and let’s get started!
Learn to Eat in Season Initial Consult: min 1 hour - $75
Want to know more about Eating for the Season and how to incorporate this approach to wellness into your diet? Book a consultation session and let’s get started!
Learn to Eat in Season Initial Consult: min 1 hour - $75