Repeat after me: “I do not need to perfectly identify every single plant I lay my eyes on”. What makes you a forager is foraging, not the number of plants you forage. You don’t need to memorize the Latin names or even the botanical terms. If you can follow a basic checklist, you have what it takes to harvest wild plants. You can start by learning about really common, really safe plants and get comfortable quickly with our guidance. You’ve got this, Queen. 

If you’re afraid that you’ll poison yourself, you’re exactly the right person to get into foraging. Beginner foragers are often better foragers because they’re caring enough to pay diligent attention to details that an experienced forager might overlook. Better to be nervous than to have an unfounded sense of confidence that ends you with the trots. 

There are many decisions you can make as a beginner to remove some fear factors, like choosing plants that have no dangerous lookalikes or deciding to cook the plants to guarantee there are no pathogens. We’re here to help. 

Guided plant walks are a wonderful complement to the Foraging Course to solidify your knowledge. During plant walks, participants have brief encounters with numerous plants: perhaps not enough to build independence as a forager, but enough to clarify which plants they would like to focus on for the season. The video lessons in the Foraging Course have the great advantage of giving you the time to absorb key details such as specific characteristics of plants, their lookalikes, and their contraindications for consumption or for medicinal uses. Since these details won’t wilt like in an herbarium, and can’t be warped like in field sketches, this allows you to compare your own wild harvest to crisp video images as many times as necessary. This allows you to build your plant identification skills with absolute certainty to become autonomous in your foraging.  

As environmentalists first and foremost, foraging ethically is of paramount importance to us. To ensure the protection of natural ecosystems, one of our first course modules is dedicated to learning the 6 principal foraging ethics. In addition to this, all the plants highlighted in our course are very common plants; we do not touch upon rare or protected plants.

Break out the elderflower kombucha – the answer is: “Forever!” The course is yours to keep for life. And that includes any future lessons we add! Happy dance!

We’re a mission-based business trying to break down the barriers to foraging. It’s completely up to YOU to decide which of the 3 program fees feels fair to you. You get to make a decision that respects your own personal financial situation. Whichever option you choose, you get the same exact content and privileges.

The reduced rate covers our business expenses; the regular rate brings in a stipend for our work; and the generosity rate really helps sustain our business.

There’s no wrong choice and you can always tip us later if you’d like to adjust your enrollment fee.

Either way, we appreciate your support!

All sales are final (unless you accidentally purchased the course multiple times). We are a mission-based business that offers accessible pricing, therefore our profit margins are low. In the digital content world, where courses are immediately downloadable, there’s unfortunately a high prominence of content theft through illegitimate refund requests. Our two-person team can’t allocate the time required to keep up with this regrettable trend. 

However, we want to assure you that if there are any updates you wish to see to the course or any additional modules or plant profiles, we will immediately seek to make these improvements. Do not hesitate to ask, because we create new content every week and are constantly updating our courses and adding new video lessons.

To give you further peace of mind, we offer exchanges. We are so confident that you will love the Foraging Course and the wild plants you’re about to meet, that if by day 7 you aren’t delighted, you can exchange the course for any of our other 9 eco-classes of equal value (Herbal Remedies, Sprouts & Microgreens, Secondhand Living, Zero Waste Body Care & Cosmetics, Zero Waste Menstruation, Environmental Activism, Composting, Conscious Cleaning, Intro to Zero Waste Living). These courses have received hundreds of glowing reviews. Read more in our Terms of Use.