Wild Edible Plants: Rainforest Walking Tour with Lunch

Vancouver, Canada

In this 2-hour walking tour, you'll learn everything you need to know to survive in the BC rainforest.This ever-popular foraging 101 trip starts with an easy walk through British Columbia's forests to identify wild berries, edible native ferns and trees, weeds, and plants. Afterwards, you'll enjoy a chef-prepared wild, light lunch with tips and tricks on how best to cook all the dozens of different wild edibles in the forests.

Begin this tour with an easy stroll through the forest. Your local, wildcraft guide will show you how to survive and eat like a king in British Columbia's forests. As you identify all the native plants you come across, your guide will tell you the secrets of how to cook and make their distinctive flavors shine. Learn how to safely gather, prepare and cook unique tastes found only in the Pacific Northwest. You may find fiddleheads, licorice fern, salmonberry, big leaf maple flowers, cloud berry, stinging nettles, or oyster mushrooms.

Following your walk, enjoy a lovely, light lunch made with wild ingredients and a tisane (sun tea) with wild herbs. Please note that this is not a live cooking demo and that the tour is an identification only trip (no harvesting).

Spring and summer tours are held from May to early September. Here, the focus is on shoots, leaves, berries, flowers, weeds, edible trees and dozens more edibles that you will never find in the grocery store!