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About Forager's Harvest Classes
with Sam Thayer
Forager's Harvest classes take place on a sixty-acre former farm in Northern Wisconsin's Bayfield County, four miles south of Lake Superior. It was purchased in 1994 with the aspiration that it would one day become a center for researching and teaching about wild food and a place to demonstrate a simple, sustainable, and joyful life based on them. Here we thrive without many of the "necessities" that encumber modern living, and wild foods are eaten every day at every meal. Realizing how difficult it is to find reliable sources of information on edible wild plants, we serve as an educational resource to interested persons through this newsletter, courses, and other outreach efforts.
Part of our mission is to discover and perfect the uses of native food plants and promote them as practical additions or alternatives to our traditional diets. We are not interested in employing wild crops in place of domestic ones in field monocultures, but rather as part of a natural habitat which provides human nourishment as well as a healthy, functioning ecosystem; a perfect example of this is maple syrup production. We have come to call this philosophy of food production by managed native ecosystems "ecoculture", and our sixty acres is used to put the concept into practice. Ecoculture, once employed by "primitive" peoples worldwide, is the only system of land use which humans have demonstrated that we can sustainably implement. Here at Forager's Harvest, we believe in maintaining a clean, diverse, and vibrant world. And unlike most schools, we do more than research and teach --we live by the very ideas we promulgate.
Forager's Harvest was founded upon the belief that people must learn to find happiness in the wealth of life rather than money and material, or we are bound to miss all that is good in the world and ourselves. Gathering and using wild foods, the most ancient occupation of humankind, puts us in touch with the world of creation and our roots as no other activity can. It is also really fun, saves money, and allows you to enjoy food so unique, delicious, and healthful that it seems a miracle - and it is. Our dream at Forager's Harvest is to keep discovering and sharing that miracle. If you wish to participate in our classes please send me a note for more information:
Sam Thayer
W5066 Hwy 86
Ogema, WI 54459
715-767-5826
arcadiansam@yahoo.com
Be sure to a look at Sam Thayer's book:
The Forager's Harvest: A Guide to Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants
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