by Laura Lengnick | Apr 18, 2019 | Events
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...
by Laura Lengnick | Dec 18, 2018 | Events
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...
by Laura Lengnick | Oct 23, 2018 | Events
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...
by Laura Lengnick | Aug 29, 2018 | Uncategorized
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...
by Laura Lengnick | Aug 20, 2018 | Interviews
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...
