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SUMMARY:Summer Wild Foraging Intensive: Mushrooms\, Medicines\, and Edible Foods of the Forest
DESCRIPTION:RESCHEDULED TO August 15th 9am – 2pm* Stackhouse Park\,  998 Luzerne St\, Johnstown\, PA 15905\nWith Dana Driscoll (Pennsylvania School of Herbalism) and Daniel Foshee (Mushroom Nerds)\n**Please note that our class has been rescheduled from July 18th to August 15th due to severe thunderstorms and wildfire smoke. ** \nDo you want to start or deepen your wild food\, mushroom\, and/or medicine foraging practice? Are you interested in learning how to identify\, harvest\, and prepare food and medicine from our local ecosystem?  If so\, join Daniel and Dana for a full day immersed in the living landscape of Central Pennsylvania at the beautiful 277-acre Stackhouse Park in the Laurel Highlands\, where you will learn to recognize\, harvest\, and prepare wild foods and medicines of the summer season. \nThe morning will be spent in the woods\, where we will search for edible and medicinal mushrooms and wild plants while developing essential skills in identification\, safe and ethical harvesting\, reading the landscape\, foraging ethics\, nature stewardship\, and observation. Our focus is on helping you build confidence in identification and foraging skills. \nIn the afternoon\, we will identify\, prepare\, and wildcraft with the plants and mushrooms we’ve\, learning practical methods for transforming wild harvests into usable forms. Participants will have the opportunity to create their own plant medicine—such as a tincture\, infused vinegar\, or wildcrafted salve (depending on what is abundant and in season)—to take home. This hands-on experience will help empower you to continue your herbal and mushroom foraging practice. \nThere will also be reasonably priced foraging gear\, mushroom hunting knives\, intro books\, and cute mushroom merch available for purchase from Daniel’s company\, Mushroom Nerds! \nSchedule: \n9am – 10:00 – Introduction and foraging basics\n10:00 – 12:30 – Introduction and Foraging in Stackhouse Park\n12:30 – 1PM – Lunch and Break (please bring your own lunch); cooking demo\n1:00pm  – 2pm – Plant and mushroom ID\, edible preparations\, and medicine-making demos. \nLocation: Stackhouse Park in Cambria County\, situated on 277 acres of forest.  998 Luzerne St\, Johnstown\, PA 15905. Note: we will send you specific directions before the event with a map to reach the pavilion where we will gather. \nPreparation: Good footwear is essential for this class; please wear a closed-toe hiking shoe with good tread–foraging often includes rough terrain and off-trail walking. Bring bug spray and tick repellent. Bring a notebook to document and take notes.  An open-weave basket is also recommended. \nLunch: All participants should bring their own lunch (lunch is not included in the cost). \nCost: Sliding scale $50 -$90.  Sliding scale means that you pay what you can afford to pay\, so please pay what you can afford.  Those who make more can pay more. \nCredits: This program also qualifies for 4 hours of stewardship and identification credits with the Pennsylvania School of Herbalism (applicable toward the 50-hour and 100-hour certificate programs. \n  \nAbout your instructors\nDaniel Foshee is an ardent mushroom hunter and amateur mycologist. He’s been teaching an ‘introduction to safe mushroom hunting’ for multiple years in parks and at mushroom festivals and events in Pennsylvania. A member of the North American Mycological Association\, the Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club\, as well as several others. Daniel excels in cooking mushroom meals and loves teaching all of this to others in an education and experience based manner. In a good year he may eat as many as 20 species. He also operates a business called ‘Mushroom Nerds’ selling foraging gear at events up and down the East Coast. As an Amateur Mycologist Daniel collects specimens for DNA sequencing and aids in building the science of fungi. Socials:\nFacebook:  https://www.facebook.com/mushroom.nerds.2025\nInstagram @mushroomnerds\nTikTok @https://www.tiktok.com/@mushroomnerds \n  \nDana Driscoll has been teaching about wild food foraging\, wildcrafted medicinal plants\, and herbalism and leading plant walks in Western and Central Pennsylvania over a decade. She is the co-founder of the Pennsylvania School of Herbalism\, and she practices Traditional Western Herbalism and Appalachian Folk Herbalism\, rooted in the medicines of our beautiful Allegheny Mountains. As an herbalist and avid wild food forager\, Dana is committed to working with local\, abundant\, and opportunistic plants and focusing on nature education that allows humans to reconnect and relearn reciprocal relationships with our ecosystems. She recognizes that humans and herbs have evolved together\, and plant and mushroom food and medicine can work in profound ways on our physical\, emotional\, and spiritual well-being. She is a member of the Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club\, the American Herbalist Guild\, and the North American Mycological Association. She is also a botanical and whimsical nature artist\, permaculture practitioner\, and homesteader currently residing in Indiana County.  Socials (on the bottom of the page for PA herb school!) \n  \nPlease note this class is subject to our cancellation policy: We offer a refund if you cancel 72 hour prior to class. Between 72 hours and 24 hours you can receive credit to take another class. No refunds or credits given for no-shows and cancellations within 24 hours\, except in case of emergency or illness.
URL:https://www.paherbschool.com/event/summer-wild-foraging-intensive-mushrooms-medicines-and-edible-foods-of-the-forest/
LOCATION:998 Luzerne St\, Johnstown\, PA 15905\, 998 Luzerne St\, Johnstown\, Pennsylvania\, 15905\, United States
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SUMMARY:Late Summer Wildcrafting\, Foraging\, and Medicine Making Intensive at Mother Earth Farm
DESCRIPTION:CLASS IS FULL! \nJoin the Pennsylvania School of Herbalism for our third medicine foraging and medicine-making intensive\, focusing on herbs and medicines of late summer. In this intensive\, we will spend time with some unique herbs found at Mother Earth farm\, including wetland herbs like calamus as well as late season blooms like goldenrod. \nThe first part of our intensive will include exploring and harvesting medicines in a variety of ecosystems: field\, edge spaces\, and forests.  On our foraging walk\, we will focus on plant\, tree\, and mushroom identification\, foraging safety and harvest ethics\, and consider the role of stewardship in foraging practice.  In the second part of our intensive\, we will process and make medicine from our harvests\, which–depending on what we find– will include calamus tinctures among other preparations. This will be a hands-on experience. \nPreparation: Good footwear is essential for this class; please wear a closed-toe hiking shoe with good tread\, long pants\, and layers for a variety of weather conditions. Foraging often includes rough terrain and off-trail walking\, and Mother Earth Farm has a hilly landscape where we will be off-trail. Bring bug spray and tick repellent.  Participants will find it helpful to bring a notebook to document and take notes.  An open-weave basket\, gloves\, a small shovel\, a knife\, and a pair of pruners are also recommended. \nCost: Sliding scale $35-$65.  Sliding scale means that you pay what you can afford to pay\, so please pay what you can afford. \nLocation: Mother Earth Farm\, 4420 Warren Rd\, Indiana\, PA 15701\n \nCredits: This program also qualifies for 2 hours of stewardship and identification credits and 1 hour of medicine making with the Pennsylvania School of Herbalism (applicable toward the 50-hour and 100-hour certificate programs). \nAbout Mother Earth Farm: We are a women-owned\, family-operated farm located in Indiana\, PA; growing sustainably to ensure we leave the Earth better off than we found it. The Indiana Outdoor School is located on the farm as well. \nThe Indiana Outdoor School is a collaborative project between local farmers and educators at Nature Works Farm and Mother Earth Farm in Indiana County\, Pennsylvania. Learn more at Mother Earth Farm’s website! \n  \nPlease note this class is subject to our cancellation policy: We offer a refund if you cancel 72 hour prior to class. Between 72 hours and 24 hours you can receive credit to take another class. No refunds or credits given for no-shows and cancellations within 24 hours except in case of emergency or illness.
URL:https://www.paherbschool.com/event/late-summer-wildcrafting-and-foraging-intensive-at-mother-earth-farm/
LOCATION:Mother Earth Farm\, 4420 Warren Rd\, Indiana\, PA 15701\, 4420 Warren Rd\, Indiana\, PA\, 15701\, United States
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