Edible Plants
Intro, Welcome to the school, facilities, dos, and don’ts.
- How to identify individual plants/trees
- ITEM - touch on toxicity and dangers
- Woody vs. Herbaceous plants
- Deciduous vs. Evergreen
- Simple vs. Compound leaves
- Perennial/Biennial/Annual
- Using various plant guides.
- Plant List (will tailor to what’s up at the time)
Plantain Cattail
Red Clover Nettles
White Clover Wild Violet
Wood Sorrell Chicory
Blackberry Honeysuckle
Raspberry Poke
Burdock Black Walnut
Curly Dock Dandelion
Various Sumac Wild Garlic/Wild Onion
Queen Annes Lace White Pine
Other Nut/Fruit-bearing trees/Shrubs
- How To Harvest
- Ethical Harvest vs. Emergency Harvest
- Where to harvest.
- Chemical contamination
- Short Plant Walk
- Send students to harvest
- Student's lunch supplemented with their harvest.
- Longer Plant Walk - Talk about edible vs. medicinal uses. (a primer for Day 2)
Q&A During and after
Medicinal Plants
- Re-cap ITEM, Harvest and dangerous look alike.
- Plant List, Same as Day 1 and add the 5 trees.
- Medicinal Preps
- Raw
- Poultice
- Fomentation
- Infusion (Cold/Hot)
- Decoction
- Salves/Lotions/Balms
- Making A Salve
- Solids to Soft/Liquid Ratio
- Step by Step
- Making the Infusion
- Wax Preparation
- Adding the Infusion
- Troubleshooting
- Send the students to harvest.
- Make the salve, re-cap the steps while they are cooking.
- Lessons Learned, goodbye!
Equipment List:
Standard camping equipment if they are camping, small camp stove and cooking gear to prepare harvested plants. Plant guides for the Eastern Woodlands, Notebook and pen/pencil. Food/snacks for the duration of the class.
Age Requirements:
Must be at least 18 years old.
Due to property insurance restrictions: There will be NO camping on the school property prior to the start of the class or after the class concludes.
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