Come spend the weekend enjoying great food, meeting new friends, and learning about foraging and traditional skills.
The Great Lakes Foragers Gathering is the largest annual gathering of wild food enthusiasts in the Great Lakes region. You can look forward to a variety of classes and workshops covering foraging, cooking with wild foods, and other traditional skills. Plus you will have the opportunity to sample amazing wild food dishes at every meal. And, of course, we will continue our tradition of creating great memories, making new friends, and building a strong community.
Please select your ticket type below before adding an Intensive and/or a Scholarship donation. Note: We are foragers not webmasters. We did our best to set this up so that you can register for everything easily. But if you have problems with anything, please don’t hesitate to contact rhmifsud@gmail.com.
This year we are happy to also offer 3 optional Friday morning Intesives that you can add when you purchase your ticket. These trips are limited to only a handful of participants so that you can have plenty of one on one with the instructors, and are designed to give you hands on experience. Scroll down to add a Friday morning Intensive to your weekend.
Fishing Intensive (led by George Hedgepeth and Dean Sherwood): Take a trip to a private lake where you will learn the essentials: how to fish (including how to choose your rod, bait, and location), how to clean the catch, and how cook it. If you have a fish cleaning knife, bring it.
Blueberry Bog Botany Intensive (lead by Clay Bowers and Sean Zera): Practice plant ID skills while you nibble wild blueberries in a beautiful local bog. There is usually standing water in the bog, so knee boots, waders, or water shoes are recommended.
Oak Barrens Restoration Ecology Intensive (lead by Jeremy Siegrist and Silas Bialecki): Take a trip with 2 of our Irish Hills locals to a beautifully restored Oak Barrens. Learn about restoration techniques and the unique plants and animals that live in these habitats. This trip will also visit an artesian spring, so bring your water bottles.
Also this year we are proud to announce that we have a scholarship fund set up to help support community members who aren’t able to afford tickets. There is a button at the bottom of the page if you would like to help out.
Come spend the weekend enjoying great food, meeting new friends, and learning about foraging and traditional skills.
The Great Lakes Foragers Gathering is the largest annual gathering of wild food enthusiasts in the Great Lakes region. You can look forward to a variety of classes and workshops covering foraging, cooking with wild foods, and other traditional skills. Plus you will have the opportunity to sample amazing wild food dishes at every meal. And, of course, we will continue our tradition of creating great memories, making new friends, and building a strong community.
Please select your ticket type below before adding an Intensive and/or a Scholarship donation. Note: We are foragers not webmasters. We did our best to set this up so that you can register for everything easily. But if you have problems with anything, please don’t hesitate to contact rhmifsud@gmail.com.
This year we are happy to also offer 3 optional Friday morning Intesives that you can add when you purchase your ticket. These trips are limited to only a handful of participants so that you can have plenty of one on one with the instructors, and are designed to give you hands on experience. Scroll down to add a Friday morning Intensive to your weekend.
Fishing Intensive (led by George Hedgepeth and Dean Sherwood): Take a trip to a private lake where you will learn the essentials: how to fish (including how to choose your rod, bait, and location), how to clean the catch, and how cook it. If you have a fish cleaning knife, bring it.
Blueberry Bog Botany Intensive (lead by Clay Bowers and Sean Zera): Practice plant ID skills while you nibble wild blueberries in a beautiful local bog. There is usually standing water in the bog, so knee boots, waders, or water shoes are recommended.
Oak Barrens Restoration Ecology Intensive (lead by Jeremy Siegrist and Silas Bialecki): Take a trip with 2 of our Irish Hills locals to a beautifully restored Oak Barrens. Learn about restoration techniques and the unique plants and animals that live in these habitats. This trip will also visit an artesian spring, so bring your water bottles.
Also this year we are proud to announce that we have a scholarship fund set up to help support community members who aren’t able to afford tickets. There is a button at the bottom of the page if you would like to help out.
