Sat, October 29, 2016 1:30 AM - 3:30 AM UBC FARM. $39 ($32 for registered students -- valid student ID is required) + GST. How would you survive without a grocery store? This trip teaches you how to SAFELY identify wild mushrooms like porcini, chanterelle, honey, wild oysters and more edibles that you will never find in the grocery store! Our ever-popular “Wild Edible Identification Trips” are 2-hour trips with a wilderness expert that include an easy walk through the forest to identify whatever we find and they book up fast!
Please note: this is an identification rather than a harvesting workshop.
About the Instructor: Chef Robin Kort is a professional wildcraft guide and owner of Swallow Tail Culinary Adventures. She’s worked alongside some of the cities best chefs from Hawksworth to Chef Andrea Carlson of Burdock & Co. She is a member of the Vancouver mycological society and has been running wild mushroom foraging trips and cooking classes for 6 years. Chef Robin has been interviewed for her food and wine expertise on the Food Network with Bob Blummer, CBC with Steven Quinn, Montecristo Magazine, Vancouver Magazine, the Huffington Post, Conde Nast Traveller and the Globe and Mail.
Contact: carly.koenig@alumni.ubc.ca