All around grow useful, edible, medicinal, and fragrant wild plants – waiting for you to harvest and use them. In this workshop you’ll learn to safely identify and gather several abundant species. You’ll discover their unique nutritional, aromatic, and health-giving properties, and their many practical uses.
You’ll make simple home remedies, along with dyes, bodycare products, and delicious treats. Enjoy the fruits of your labours yourself, or turn them into original handcrafted gifts. You’ll leave the workshop inspired to keep on experimenting. You’ll receive a set of free notes, while Johanna’s book A Forager’s Treasury will be available to buy for those who would like to.
Tutor: Johanna Knox
Johanna is the author of A Forager’s Treasury: A New Zealand guide to finding and using wild plants. She has written about foraging for numerous magazines, and between 2008 and 2011 she had a regular spot on Radio New Zealand’s This Way Up chatting about foraging to Simon Morton. She works as an editor at Te Ara, the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, and at Whitireia as a tutor for the Diploma of Creative Writing (Online). She is also the author of The Fly Papers, a children’s fiction series about carnivorous plants. In her spare time she is a keen crafter and all-round experimenter.
Notes for Participants: Please bring your own sturdy scissors.
Bookings: Book @ Wairarapa REAP, 340 Queen St, Masterton or on 06-377 1379. Cash or internet payments only
Booking Deadline: Tuesday 1 Oct @ 5pm
Please Note: All workshops have a minimum number of places, which must be filled to run. If that minimum number is not reached you will be notified and receive a full refund from Kokomai.