Date: Saturday, June 8
Time: 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Montana Natural History Center

Join Sydney Morical and Cathryn Rann of Wild Wanders!

For this summertime wander, we’ll be showcasing the range of flavors and medicinal properties present in a flight of foraged herbal honeys, vinegars, and oxymels. As we enjoy, we’ll explore the characteristics and applications of these various infused delights. We’ll then get a chance to see some of them in real time on our wander around the river, learn what they look like, and more about their community. Ultimately we’ll circle back to home base for a demo of how to craft your own infused honeys, vinegars, and oxymels at home with commonly found plants. This is the best time of year for making these creations!

We won’t be going far on this wander (we never do) but we will be meeting many plant friends along the way so bring your plant guides, notebook, and pen if you’d like. We’ll start off by sharing a bit about who we are and why wild food and medicine is such an important part of our lives before letting the rest of the group introduce themselves. After some brief housekeeping we will start our wander which will be under one mile in total. We generally discuss 20-30 different plants and fungi on our wanders and only harvest as a group when populations are abundant enough to support it.

Instructors: Sydney Morical and Cathryn Raan are both passionate and longtime gatherers of wild food and medicine. They have also served on the Board of Directors for the Western Montana Mycological Association since 2018, planning events, teaching a wide variety of mushroom classes and keeping the fungal community engaged and connected. They both have experience in herbal medicine and agriculture (they will teach you about all the wonderful “weeds” around town), and a deep love of this land and all the plants living in their midst. They are humbled and delighted to be two of many on a long strand of plant-loving humans sharing their experience and knowledge with others.

Cost: $30 MNHC members, $35 non-members
Kids welcome free of charge.

FAQs:

What’s the refund policy?

The course fee (minus a 25% administrative fee) is refundable if a cancellation is made up to 7 days before the event. No refunds will be issued for cancellations made after this deadline. See our full refund/cancellation policy here.

Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event?

Nope! We will have a list of all the attendees.