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Botany and Foraging Intensive - Oregon


Would you like to polish your plant identification skills and feast on wild edibles? Join author and teacher, Thomas J. Elpel, along with special guests John Kallas, Tom Brown II, and our very own Rob Miller for an intensive two weeks of botanizing, wild food foraging, camping, and adventure!

This intensive will take you on a food and wilderness tour of Oregon in order to develop proficiency in plant identification using the patterns method of plant identification outlined in Tom's book Botany in a Day. Learn how to instantly recognize thousands of plants according to the proper families and which plants are edible as well as how to harvest and prepare them.

Learning locations will be wild, beautiful, and diverse. This is truly a one of a kind camping adventure with extraordinary teachers that will deepen your relationship with the land, wild foraging skills, and ecological knowledge

For more details and to register, go to Thomas Elpel’s website Green University.