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Piedmont Picnic Launches Foragable Raleigh with a Resilient Gardens Workshop Oct. 19th!
Foragable Community at the Master Gardener College
Laura Lengnick, Foragable Community's Resilience Partner, led a workshop entitled Celebrating Place, Cultivating Resilience at this year's Extension Master Gardener College hosted by North Carolina State University in Raleigh June 7. Laura introduced community...
read moreForagable Durham Leads a Walk on the Wild Side
About 30 people gathered at Mystic Farm & Distillery on a recent warm spring morning to learn about foraging wild edible ingredients and the magic of fermentation! Local-food educators from Piedmont Picnic led attendees on a foraging walk around the Mystic Farm...
read moreWhat’s all the Buzz About Foragable Durham?
This past Saturday about 20 people braved the rain to join local-food educators from Piedmont Picnic Project and the bee-loving expert of Apiopolis at Mystic Farm & Distillery for a two-hour hands-on pollinator gardening workshop and picnic. The event was...
read moreBake Local Holiday Workshop Sponsored by Foragable Durham
Piedmont Picnic led the second in a series of four Foragable Durham workshops at Mystic Farm and Distillery on Dec 15. This workshop taught participants how to convert their favorite holiday confection recipes to use all local ingredients and showcase unique local...
read morePiedmond Picnic & Mystic Farm and Distillery Launch Foragable Durham!
Locally-foraged cocktails were the star of Foragable Durham's first workshop led by Piedmont Picnic and hosted by Mystic Farm and Distillery this past weekend. The 25 workshop participants learned how to make two different foraged cocktails while they learned some...
read moreTour of Milkweed Meadows: Meeting with Pollinator Farmer and Pawpaw Enthusiast Kim Bailey
This field trip to Milkweed Meadows was part of a summer internship through Foragable Community to study pawpaw. Rachael Boyce was the 2018 summer intern and guest writer for this blog. Kim Bailey, a pollinator farmer near Hendersonville, NC and owner of Milkweed...
read moreExploring Appalachian Foodways with Susi Gott Séguret
A fluid understanding of what it means to forage and to farm is common to all traditional food cultures and is the guiding principle of Foragable Community's mission to encourage public participation in local foodways. Many cultures still enjoy traditional wild foods...
read morePlanting Native Trees at Fonta Flora
Through funding from Foragable Community, Fonta Flora was able to plant over 30 native paw paw tress and create a beautiful flowing native plant educational area on May 25th.
read moreForaging with Doug Elliott: Video Series
Join Foragable Communities’ Ethnobotanist Partner Doug Elliott as he forages through the landscapes of North Carolina, sharing history, foraging, and preparation tips for a variety of plants.
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