with Forage River Outfitters
Hands-On Sustainable Foraging Education.
Learn how to identify, harvest, and utilize Maine's wild edibles!
Taste-Test Foraged Finds!
Discover delicious flavors hidden among Maine's forests and how to safely prepare them!
Take-Home Tinctures to Share with Loved Ones!
Make your very own tincture starters and leave with the knowledge of next steps!
Foraging Maine Workshop
- Maine Foraging Skills -
Forage edible and medicinal plants of Maine with Master Maine Guide Gregory Sarnacki.
**Class Limited to 8-10 Students**
Make your own natural medicinal tinctures and sample foraged foods from the wilderness of Maine!
Includes:
- Top notch instruction on foraging edible and medicinal plants and mushrooms from a Master Maine Guide
- Traditional Maine Guide Lunch
- Materials to forage and make tinctures!
- Creating medicinal tinctures to bring home!
**Must be able to comfortably walk 2-3 miles on trails and through the woods!
This training gives you the knowledge and foraging skills to find, identify, gather, and harvest edible foods and medicinal plants safely and sustainably.
Are you intrigued with the idea of foraging but intimidated by where to start?
This hands-on workshop is designed for those with interest to know and understand edible plants/fungi as well as deepening your relationship with the abundance nature has to offer.
- Understanding edible and medicinal plants/mushrooms.
- Hike through the Maine woods and along the river, identifying and foraging for known plants/mushrooms that are beneficial to our sustenance and well being.
- Prepare and eat some of the edibles the class has gathered!
- Make and take-home medicinal plant/mushroom tinctures
Greg is thrilled to share his bountiful knowledge that takes you into sustainable practices of foraging in the wilds of Maine.
Details
Foraging Maine with Forage River Outfitters
Location: Winn, Maine
Parking: M.O.L.C Mattawamkeag River Field Site
$135 p.p. | 10 person max.
(Inquire for private and large groups)
Time: 9:00am - 3:30ish pm
Includes:
- Professional Instruction
- Maine Guide Lunch
- Take-Home Tinctures
2023 DATES:
- JUNE 17th
- JULY 9th
- JULY 29th
- AUGUST 13th
- SEPTEMBER 17th
**Be sure to bring a notebook and pencil for this class! There's a lot to learn!
Contact:
Greg Sarnacki
Master Maine Guide
(207) 217-1641
Private Foraging
We currently forage a wide variety of mushrooms, berries, and forest herbs. We are able to ship foraged goods fresh, dried, pickled, or tinctured upon request.
Available Choices
Chanterelle Mushroom
Chanterelle Mushroom
Chanterelle Mushroom
Fresh or Dried
Lobster Mushroom
Chanterelle Mushroom
Chanterelle Mushroom
Fresh or Dried
Fiddleheads
Chanterelle Mushroom
Wild Maine Blueberries
Fresh, Frozen, or Pickled
Wild Maine Blueberries
Wild Maine Blueberries
Wild Maine Blueberries
*Available in small quantities only.
Fresh, Frozen, or Dried
Chicken of the Woods
Wild Maine Blueberries
Black Trumpet Mushroom
Fresh
Black Trumpet Mushroom
Wild Maine Blueberries
Black Trumpet Mushroom
Fresh or Dried
Oyster Mushroom
Oyster Mushroom
Oyster Mushroom
Fresh or Dried
Chaga
Oyster Mushroom
Oyster Mushroom
Raw, Ground, Tinctured, or in Chai Blend
Turkey Tail
Oyster Mushroom
Turkey Tail
Dried or Tinctured
Don't See What You're Looking For?
We are knowledgable in both culinary and medicinal foraging in the great state of Maine. If you don't see what you're looking for above, please reach out and we will see about getting it for you!
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