foraging – The Convergence http://permacultureconvergence.com Building Resilient Communities Tue, 14 Aug 2018 20:00:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 http://permacultureconvergence.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/cropped-permaculture-convergence-norcal-logo-32x32.png foraging – The Convergence http://permacultureconvergence.com 32 32 Foraging Adventures: Urban Solutions for an Ecological Economy http://permacultureconvergence.com/foraging-adventures-urban-solutions-for-an-ecological-economy/ Sat, 21 Jul 2018 18:20:33 +0000 http://permacultureconvergence.com/?p=9416 Learn how to shift from grocery store dependence to community resilience through foraging, farming and tending our local ecosystems.

Food is growing all around us. Explore how to tap into the abundance and decrease your dependence on the grocery store through foraging and engaging with local farms. Participants will gain an overall understanding of how to interact in a positive way with the ecology and community around them as well as learning the mental, social and health benefits of this practice. We will enjoy freshly foraged foods together as we deepen our knowledge of how to re-shape the local food economy.

Presented By: Bryan Bramlett

]]> Foraging Adventures http://permacultureconvergence.com/foraging-adventures/ Mon, 04 Sep 2017 19:44:51 +0000 http://permacultureconvergence.com/?p=5667 Foraging connects us to abundance and brings us into meaningful relationship with plants and people. It also releases feel-good chemicals in the brain. We will talk story and ethics behind gathering wild foods as well as learn the nutritional and mental health benefits. Freshly foraged foods will be available to sample as we dive deep into this ancestral art form.

Learn wild food collecting (for urban and rural settings) and sample fresh fruits as we discuss how foraging boosts overall health and connects people with ecology and community.

Foraging gives an easy access point to the world of permaculture by connecting people with the many wild foods that exist around them, whether they live in a crowded city or in the forest. Participants will gain an overall understanding of how to collect, when to collect, and how to interact in a positive way with the ecology and community around them as well as learning the mental, social and health benefits of wild food collecting. This will be presented as a class with encouragement for questions and sharing. We will be sampling freshly foraged fruits that I provide and I will be showing people how to collect seed from these fruits as a hands-on way of beginning their own permaculture plots.

 Sunday Oct 8| 11am| Willow Grove

Presented By: Bryan Bramlett

]]> Bryan Bramlett http://permacultureconvergence.com/bryan-bramlett/ Mon, 04 Sep 2017 18:54:58 +0000 http://permacultureconvergence.com/?p=5660 Bryan’s approach fuses permaculture, ecology and indigenous land tending practices. Growing up in rural Alabama, Bryan was immersed in nature since childhood. After migrating to Berkeley in 2009 to pursue a masters in somatic counseling psychology, he began weaving his rediscovered love for gardening with counseling. He now has an eco-therapy practice alongside his water-wise landscaping business and leads immersive foraging tours in the Bay Area. He has worked on organic farms across the country and now manages a permaculture plot at the Gill Tract Community Farm in Albany, CA. Growing food, habitat and healthy community through permaculture and counseling is a mission he intends to educate the world about.

 

2017 Workshop:

Foraging Adventures

 

]]> Cooking with Acorns: From Foraging to Feasting http://permacultureconvergence.com/cooking-with-acorns-from-foraging-to-feasting/ Tue, 18 Jul 2017 17:40:06 +0000 http://permacultureconvergence.com.webserver.vera.asdf456.com/?p=5388 Acorns are an ancient, pre-agricultural staple food common to indigenous cultures throughout the Northern hemisphere. Join us for a hands-on workshop where participants will engage in the process of preparing food from acorn from start to finish. While we pound and leach acorn we will also discuss land stewardship techniques for managing oaks for acorn production, how to gather and sort acorns, various methods for leaching, a cooking demo, as well as easy and delicious recipes to take home.

Learning to prepare food from acorn is an ancestral skill, universal to anyone with ancestry from the northern hemisphere. Oaks are not only an incredibly abundant native tree that offer a multitude of uses (including nutritious food), they are a keystone species essential for biodiversity, and require human relationship in order to thrive. In addition to offering management tips for oaks, this 3-hour hands on workshop will empower folks with practical foraging and cooking skills. The workshop will include a beautiful display of edible and medicinal native plants and crafts, as well as a full setup of acorn processing for participants to get their hands dirty and engaged in the leaching process, and if possible, a small cookstove where we will fry up acorn fritters with elderberry syrup (if not, we’ll just bring the finished product for folks to taste).

Presented By: Lindsay Dailey

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