This is a full beginner foraging training program designed to kickstart your foraging journey. With over 5 hours of video training content, you will learn and be guided step-by-step on how to find delicious edibles in the forest, meadows, ocean, and urban areas.
Each video has a comment section where you can ask Chef Robin your trickiest questions. We have also included delicious recipes where Chef Robin will show you just how to prepare wild edibles in a way that will make your dishes shine!
Course Curriculum
- Introduction to Urban Foraging (1:58)
- Important Things to Note When Urban Foraging (21:08)
- Stinging Nettle (3:02)
- Lemon Balm (0:58)
- Clover (1:12)
- Currants (2:48)
- Chickweed (1:07)
- Miner's Lettuce (2:02)
- Bitter-cress and mustard family (1:18)
- Pineapple Weed - Chamomile relative (0:48)
- Wild Rose Petals (1:25)
- Dandelion and Cat's Ears (1:49)
- Cooking Stinging Nettle (2:23)
- Lemon Balm Infused Bread (6:38)
- Urban Weed Salad (4:22)
- Stuffed Chicken with Lemon Balm (3:25)
- Rose Petal Custard (3:50)
- Birch Leaves Tisane (1:15)
- Dandelion Fritters (2:59)
- Where to Find Mushrooms (9:20)
- Introduction to Mushroom Foraging (17:22)
- Morel Mushroom (5:57)
- Chantrelle Mushroom (12:22)
- Porcini Mushroom (9:29)
- Shaggy Mane Mushroom (1:40)
- Preserving Mushrooms (8:34)
- Cooking: Morel and Grilled Pork Belly (4:23)
- Chantrelle Mushroom and Pasta (5:08)
- Grilled Porcini (2:41)
- Thank you and Acknowledgement (0:43)
- Introduction to Forest Foraging (11:23)
- What Not to Eat in the Forest (1:17)
- Ferns (5:18)
- Fiddleheads (1:48)
- Red Alder Tree (0:58)
- Western Hemlock (2:13)
- Douglas Fir (1:45)
- Birch Tree (1:20)
- Fiddlehead Tempura (6:03)
- Fir Tip Rice Pudding (2:07)
- Fir Tip Tea (0:50)
- Introduction to River, Meadow, and Wetland Foraging (1:53)
- Plants to avoid (12:40)
- Thimbleberry and Berry Picking (2:23)
- Wild Blueberry (2:08)
- Salmonberry (2:54)
- Huckleberry and Native Blackberry (1:49)
- Japanese Knotweed (1:40)
- Fireweed (1:24)
- Labrador Tea (3:46)
- Oregan Grape and Oregan Grape Vinaigrette (5:00)
- Making Wild Jelly (8:55)
- Simple preserving: Pickling (6:48)
Hi, I’m chef Robin! Good to see you here.
For the past 10 years, I have been teaching foraging programs from wild mushrooms to winter foraging classes in and around my hometown Vancouver, Canada. My experience spans from being a commercial wild foods supplier for Vancouver's high end restaurants to bringing agrologists and forestry students into the field for lectures on traditional food plants of BC. I am a native Vancouverite who grew up hiking the mountains and swimming the seas of the Pacific Northwest and I would love to share my knowledge of my home with you.
As foraging gains popularity in recent years, I have been lucky enough to be interviewed by many different media outlets, including 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.
I look forward to being your guide on your foraging journey.
Robin is a fantastic educator and she happily shows off her love of edible, and non-edible, mushrooms that are available in our local forests. This course is a must for anyone who wants to find out more about nature's bounty.
Stephen S.
Robin, our guide is an amazing instructor. Tasting huckleberries, thimbleberries and weeds, really made us appreciate what the wild has to offer us as food. I love farmers markets and organic food, but Swallow Tail tours gave me the knowledge to try food even closer to the earth and nature. Looking forward to my next class!
Niki G.
The foraging class is just wonderful. I can guarantee you will learn a great deal and see our beautiful forests and oceans in a whole new way!
Christa D.