Foraging wild food is my passion! To be able to find food and medicine almost every day is an old skill that has been forgotten by many. It is my job to ignite that spark in YOU to get out there and forage too. I teach homesteaders and preppers how to identify wild plants and mushrooms to use for food and medicine.
Late Summer Foraging + Forager's Academy
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Hey Reader, How have you been? I hope the last couple months have been treating you well. I know you will agree with me that we ALL could have done without last month's temperatures of 100+ with humidity of like a million!! :) Super happy to see the rain is back and mushrooms are fruiting again. Between yesterday and today, I was able to harvest chanterelles and shiitakes plus a surprise forage of oyster mushrooms. There were so many on just one downed tree that I will go back out in 2 days and harvest more since I left a ton of baby oysters. The kudzu has been blooming so I clipped about 2 quarts of blossoms to make jelly. Yum!! A Couple of Announcements!!So as many of you know, I have been working on the creation of my new membership site, Forager's Academy. Well it will be ready for enrollment this week!! Monday, August 11th during my Livestream. I will be going LIVE on the Forager Chick YouTube channel at 7:00pm EST to give a free lesson on Kudzu and chat about the Forager's Academy! There will be a few prizes to giveaway too, especially the big one...if you have been reading this newsletter since March, you already know and have entered. If you have not been paying attention, you have just TONIGHT to enter. How do you enter? JUST REPLY to this email with what you would LOVE to learn from me! Can you do that? I will announce the winner tomorrow evening plus giveaway 2 smaller prizes to someone watching the livestream but you must be present for those. :) POP UP Foraging WalkEither next Saturday OR Sunday, I will offer a pop up walk here at the farm, depending on the weather. It will be $40 pp and include some yummy wild food snacks! Event will be posted on the website and on Facebook. If intereted in being notified, let me know! Georgia Wild Foods WeekendComing up September 19-21st. PLEASE let us know soon if you will be attending as we need to give a final count to the camp. The price of $245 includes EVERYTHING: you stay at the camp(bunk cabins, bring your own bedding), meals and classes. The main event is the Wild Foods Dinner Saturday night that all of the participants help to prepare as a group. Michelle and I are also having a contest Friday night for your Wild Spirits and Wild Foods dish. Those need to be brought finished and ready for sampling. Folks will get to sample the entries Friday evening after dinner. Our instructors are going to have amazing classes for you! Olga Katic - "Fungi and Forest Ecology: The Hidden Network Beneath Our Feet" Suzanne Shires - "Wild Seasonings Class" Philip Winter - "Making Wild Meads and Sodas" Amber Lekenby - "Wild Jellies, Jams, Syrup and Cough Drops class" Caleb Ever Wilder - "Growing Wild Foods and Medicinal Herbs in your Garden / Yard (aka Wild-Tending)" Ila Hatter - "Wildcrafting With Ila" Dave Nessia - Survival Q & A - Season 3 & 5 of ALONE Anne-Marie Bilella - "Herbal Tea Blending" Lastly, some of you already have heard, I am baking breads again! I bake once a week by order and the orders MUST be done through the following App. Please when ordering choose to pay by credit card or cash app. It makes it easier for me. Ordering opens up late Sunday evening and closes by Tuesday evening. Simply Bread - Bella Vista Farm Thank you as always for supporting me! Hugs and blessings, Anne-Marie |
Hi! I'm Anne-Marie the Forager Chick at Bella Vista Farm
Foraging wild food is my passion! To be able to find food and medicine almost every day is an old skill that has been forgotten by many. It is my job to ignite that spark in YOU to get out there and forage too. I teach homesteaders and preppers how to identify wild plants and mushrooms to use for food and medicine.
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