Upcoming Classes

Throughout the year, we offer seasonal classes including mushroom, plant, seaweed, mussels, and nut foraging, mushroom cultivation, fermentation, lectures from thought leaders, and more. We will only bring you to locations where foraging is allowed, and unlike some programs, we always have permission to be there, so you are never at risk.

Our classes are popular and sell out quickly! If you see a class pop up that you’re excited about, we encourage you to sign up right away. Classes are small to encourage community building and maximize learning. The average group size is 10-25 people. Most of our classes are online or within a 3-hour drive or less from the San Francisco Bay Area, the perfect weekend adventure.

Sign up by yourself or with a friend. If you’d like to arrange for a private program for your family and friends, or a school or corporate group, please contact us. Have an idea for a class you’d like to take or teach? Let us know.

ALMOST FULL Weaving Your Own Foraging Basket (Berkeley or Sebastopol)
Sep
6
to Oct 18

ALMOST FULL Weaving Your Own Foraging Basket (Berkeley or Sebastopol)

This class is offered two times (not a series):

  • Sat Sept 6th 10am-3pm in Berkeley (with special guest Tamika Banks!) - FULL

  • Sat Oct 18th 10am-3pm in Sebastopol - 1 spot left (as of 8/20)

Join botanist Autumn Summers for a hands-on basket weaving program where you'll learn the timeless art of weaving with local California plants! In this immersive workshop, you'll discover everything needed to create your very own foraging basket using a ribs style technique (sometimes called a melon basket). We'll cover sustainable harvesting practices, plant preparation, and the weaving patterns. Connect with nature and your creativity as you transform natural materials into a beautiful, functional piece to take home. All materials and tools are provided. 

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ALMOST FULL Edible & Medicinal Plant Walk (near Berkeley)
Sep
7

ALMOST FULL Edible & Medicinal Plant Walk (near Berkeley)

As of 8/23: Only 2 spots left!

Led by local botanist and herbalist Leibman, this program focuses on edible and medicinal fall plants in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area region.

What if the land around you wasn’t just scenery, but a living apothecary and pantry, rich with nourishment and healing? When we learn about the fall medicinal and edible gifts of our native plants, we deepen our connection to place, to tradition, to ourselves, and to our communities. This knowledge lets a sense of belonging bloom inside of us, inspiring stewardship and weaving us into the wild and living story of our precious natural homes.

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Acorns & Bay Nuts - Making Tasty Treats (Berkeley, Sebastopol, Nevada City)
Sep
20
to Oct 4

Acorns & Bay Nuts - Making Tasty Treats (Berkeley, Sebastopol, Nevada City)

Learn how to process foraged acorns and bay nuts into tasty treats.

This class is offered on 3 dates/locations (not a series):

  • Sat Sept 20th 10am-1pm - Sebastopol (led by Autumn Summers) 8 spots left as of 8/25

  • Sat Sept 27th 10am-1pm - Nevada City (led by Christopher O'Maelmacasa) - 12 spots left as of 8/25

  • Sat Oct 4th 10am-1pm - Berkeley (led by Autumn Summers) - 5 spots left as of 8/25

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 Foraging Wild Sea Urchin (Uni) to Restore Balance (Sonoma Coast)
Oct
7
to Oct 8

Foraging Wild Sea Urchin (Uni) to Restore Balance (Sonoma Coast)

Save Kelp, Eat Urchin!

10/7 - 12 spots left as of 8/25

10/8 - 10 spots left as of 8/25

Join our half-day intertidal ecology class where we will help the intertidal zone a big favor by helping to remove some of the overgrown sea urchin population. We will teach you how to open and enjoy this incredible delicacy. You may have heard it called “uni” in a sushi restaurant, but it’s SO much tastier when it’s fresh! Take home up to 35 uni. Requires a CA fishing license.

This class is offered 2x: Oct 7 or 8

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Beyond the Veil: Herbs for Connecting with the Unseen (Berkeley)
Oct
31

Beyond the Veil: Herbs for Connecting with the Unseen (Berkeley)

As Halloween approaches and the veil between worlds grows thin, we’re invited to slow down, listen closely, and honor what lies beyond. In this heart-centered class, herbalists Lia and Tara will dive deep into how gentle herbs can guide us in connecting with ancestors, plant spirits, and the more-than-human world. Together, we’ll tune into our senses, sip tea, and explore the sacred qualities of herbal allies like reishi, rosemary, yarrow, and more—each one a doorway to deeper perception and communication beyond the veil.

Lia and Tara will also guide you in crafting simple, grounding rituals to help you tune into the unseen with clarity and care. Whether you’ve just become curious about what lies beyond the veil or are looking to deepen your connection, this class offers a nourishing space to commune, remember, and celebrate in community. Come sit with us at the threshold—where memory, mystery, and herbal medicine meet.

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Winter Mushroom Foraging Classes (Sonoma Coast)
Dec
6
to Feb 15

Winter Mushroom Foraging Classes (Sonoma Coast)

Learn to safely forage for gourmet wild mushrooms!

Join one or more of these dates on the Sonoma coast with our knowledgeable and friendly teaching team on Dec 6, 7, 13, 14 , Jan 10, 11, 17, 18, 31 or Feb 1, 7, 8, 14, 15. This is a save the dates only, registration is not yet open.

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FULL Outdoor Mushroom Cultivation Class in Sebastopol
Aug
24

FULL Outdoor Mushroom Cultivation Class in Sebastopol

Learn cultivation techniques for species such as shiitake, turkey tail, lion's mane, psilocybe, reishi, and more!  The techniques you will learn can be applied to many other species.  We will demonstrate how to make an outdoor blewit patch.  We will also guide you through creating your own cultivated oyster kit to take home.  

We will cover some of the primary growing media such as straw, woodchips, andlogs. Others we can discuss are grass clippings, leaves, compost, and agricultural byproducts. Learn how everyone with even minimal outdoor space can cultivate fungi for food, medicine and as more holistic gardeners.

Led by Ryath Fujita Beauchene

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FULL Wild Feast: A Cooking Class + Dinner with Chef Tim Shaw - Berkeley
Aug
23

FULL Wild Feast: A Cooking Class + Dinner with Chef Tim Shaw - Berkeley

Join us in Berkeley from 3-6:30pm for a fun, delicious, and fully participatory wild food cooking class with entertaining chef, Tim Shaw.  If you've never had the chance to experience Tim's food and teaching, you will be SO glad you came to this! And if you have, you already know how much fun - and how incredibly delicious this is going to be.

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FULL Mushroom Medicine Making - Berkeley
Jul
27

FULL Mushroom Medicine Making - Berkeley

Join us for an experiential mushroom medicine-making class. We will focus our experience and teachings on the essential at-home techniques used to make a diversity of medicinal forms: liquids, powders, and topicals. The species we'll be working with will include Lion's Mane, Shiitake, Fomitopsis, Turkey Tail, and Cordyceps and the skills you will learn can be applied to any mushrooms you desire! Additionally, our co-created conversations will focus on why we use the techniques we do and cover topics such as traditional uses, chemistry, cultivation, foraging, and preservation as we make medicine together. 

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Free webinar: Edible Mushrooms of Mount Shasta
Jul
1

Free webinar: Edible Mushrooms of Mount Shasta

Join us for a free 60 minute online introductory class about Mount Shasta mushrooms led by Mikhael Crystallah-Selk on July 1st at 7pm. We will provide an overview of common edible mushrooms and lookalikes of the Mount Shasta region as well as their symbiotic tree partners.  We'll also include some cooking and preservation tips.

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FULL Seaweed Foraging (Sonoma Coast)
Jun
14
to Jul 27

FULL Seaweed Foraging (Sonoma Coast)

8 Class Dates, mornings at low tide

6/14, 6/15, 7/12, 7/13 led by Ricardo Romero Gianoli

6/28, 6/29, 7/26, 7/27 led by Autumn Summers

Learn how to identify, use, and sustainably harvest the bountiful seaweeds. Harvest up to 10 lbs of seaweed to take home and enjoy. 

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Seaweeds of California Webinar (Free!)
May
28

Seaweeds of California Webinar (Free!)

Join us for a free 60-minute online introductory class about California seaweeds led by Autumn Summers. We will provide an overview of where seaweeds live and how to identify and sustainably harvest common edible seaweeds growing on the northern California coast. 

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Morels, Porcini & Beyond: Understanding Sierra Nevada Ecology
May
17
to Jun 15

Morels, Porcini & Beyond: Understanding Sierra Nevada Ecology

Join us in the mountains to look for morels and spring porcini. Learn about Sierra Nevada ecology and the layers of new life forming beneath our feet that ultimately lead to the regrowth and resilience of the mountain forests after fire.

Teachers and Teaching Schedule

May 17, 18 - Thea Chesney + Carrie Staller (FULL) 

May 31, June 1  Christopher O'Maelmacasa + Ricardo Romero Gianoli (limited spots left)

June 7, 8 Alan Rockefeller + Carrie Staller (June 7 full, June 8- 1 spot left)

June 14, 15 Christopher O'Maelmacasa + Ryath Beauchene (limited spots left)

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Psilocybe Mushrooms of CA & the World (Berkeley)
May
6

Psilocybe Mushrooms of CA & the World (Berkeley)

This talk is FULL! But you can add yourself to the waitlist.

Do psilocybe (psychoactive) mushrooms grow naturally in the wild in California? Yes, they do! Learn where and how to find them and also hear about groundbreaking global research on new discoveries in psilocybe mushrooms. Great for beginners and advanced myco-enthusiasts alike. Tacos will be served!

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Wild Plants & Mushrooms of the Sierra Foothills (Nevada City)
Apr
12

Wild Plants & Mushrooms of the Sierra Foothills (Nevada City)

Only 1 spots left as of 4/2!

Led by expert naturalist Thea Chesney, this program covers spring plants and mushrooms in the Sierra foothills region. With the elevation, the ecology changes from California's winter coastal sea-level flora and funga. We will cover tree, plant, and mushroom identification, symbiotic forest partnerships, poisonous and edible trees, plants, and mushrooms.

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Wild Feast: A Cooking Class + Dinner with Chef Chad Hyatt  (Berkeley)
Apr
6

Wild Feast: A Cooking Class + Dinner with Chef Chad Hyatt (Berkeley)

This class is FULL!

Join us for a fun, delicious, and fully participatory wild food cooking class with entertaining chef, Chad Hyatt, author of The Mushroom Hunter’s Kitchen. 

Under chef Chad's guiding hand, we will work our way through 5 or 6 dishes, focused on seasonal ingredients. We will put together a complete meal together, from appetizer through dessert. The class will culminate in a shared dinner.  Come hungry!

Class is limited to 15 spots and will sell out quickly!

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Functional & Medicinal Mushrooms Talk + Tacos (Berkeley)
Mar
26

Functional & Medicinal Mushrooms Talk + Tacos (Berkeley)

Join us in Berkeley for a special talk + tacos about functional & medicinal mushrooms such as lions mane, chaga, mushroom coffee, and more! Do they really work? Ryath will answer this as well as talk about how you can make your own!

This is a small space and will sell out quickly, so make sure to get tickets right away!

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Tu B'Shevat - A Celebration of Trees & Fungi
Feb
15

Tu B'Shevat - A Celebration of Trees & Fungi

In honor of Tu B’Shevat, the Jewish New Year for Trees, we will celebrate the interrelationships of trees, humanity, fungi and the unseen world. Learn how blessings, angels, and a Jewish approach to ethical harvesting can deepen our connection to the natural world as we amble through the forest.  All ages and spiritual backgrounds welcome. This guided walk will be in Berkeley, CA in Tilden Park.  With all the rain we've had, the forest is bursting with life. It's a great time for an adventure!

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Edible & Medicinal Plant Walk
Feb
1

Edible & Medicinal Plant Walk

Led by Autumn Summers, this program focuses on edible and medicinal spring plants in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area region. As we encounter them, we will also cover tree, plant, and mushroom identification, symbiotic forest partnerships, poisonous and edible trees, plants, and mushrooms, as well as forest safety.  

It's possible we can find miner's lettuce, mustard, radish, chickweed, spring alliums, cleavers, and a lot more!  We'll also cover wild berries, although they won't have fruit on them just yet. But you'll still learn how to know their leaves for later in the season!  You will leave with foundational skills to be able to go out foraging on your own. The program also includes community building and a tasting at the end. This is an experiential hands-on half-day program that starts at 1pm.

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Fungi Friday with Mycologist Christian Schwarz + Tacos
Jan
31

Fungi Friday with Mycologist Christian Schwarz + Tacos

Join us for an exciting evening talk plus optional tacos with leading mycologist Christian Schwarz!

Making Scents of Fungi, from Stench to Perfume

If you've ever gone on a walk with an old-time mushroom picker, you've probably noticed that they often lift mushrooms to their noses as soon as they pick them. Besides being intriguing, alluring, and surprising, the aromas of fungi can be extremely important clues for identification. Come take an olfactory tiptoe through the world of fungi! We'll talk about the anatomy, philosophy, and even the politics of olfaction! Who knows where our conversation might lead us...

We will do our best to get some specimens for a fun experiential smell-a-thon that will help you get deeper into your senses, hone your identification skills, grow your myco-olfactory vocab beyond “it smells earthy”, or “it smells mushroomy” and of course be better equipped to answer “Can I eat that?”

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“This was absolutely delightful! The instructors were very knowledgeable and very well organized. We had pleasant tasting, interesting conversations about mushrooms, and successful forays. I strongly recommend this program.”

-Lynn E.