Foraging Experiences
Naturally Hand Picked From The Forest
Seasonal Foraging Tours
Offered during all the different seasons, April-November. Enjoy two hours with our foraging guide and red seal chef learning how to identify, harvest, and work with seasonal ingredients such as wild lettuces, vegetables, herbs, tree’s and fungi. Culinary and medicinal uses covered, includes a wild food snack and wild herbal tea picnic.
Locations are a casual, mostly a flat stroll with many stops to listen and look at plants. Fall mushroom tours can go “off trail” a bit, crossing shallow creeks or walking through mossy pre-logged forested area’s. Please inquire if you have any concerns.
Investment: $67 per person
Gourmet Foraging Tours
These tours emphasize very special and rare finding foragables. Choose from our wild onion tour, wild, asparagus tour, pine mushroom tour or the morel mushroom tour. During these 2 hour tours, you are able to experience a gourmet foragable species, harvest them to bring home and enjoy a wild food lunch in the forest.
Investment: $169.95 per person
Gourmet Foraging Experiences
Location: Yale BC, Spring + Summer *includes gold panning and other local wild herbs
Accessibility: Easy and slow, not a long distance to walk, slight decline at one point
Location: Spences Bridge BC, Spring only, *includes wild sage and prickly pear cacti
Accessibility: Flat walking the whole time, the drive in and out is rocky and steep, all-wheel drive required or you can book a seat with us.
Location: Outside of the Fraser Valley, Spring only
Accessibility: Can vary, only the season of will give predictability. We try to have them accessible by car, but a all-wheel drive vehicle may be needed. In that case we offer seats with us.
Location: Meet at Thompson Park Chilliwack BC, Drive 1 hr up near by mountrains roads, all-wheel drive required.
Accessibility: Slow steep 25 min hike after we ascend 45 min up a mountain road by vehicle. Foraging location mossy, soft, but still steep. For Advanced Foragers.
Forage and Feast Experience
Enjoy a 2 hour Seasonal Foraging Tour followed by a campfire cooking demo and a FOUR course forest to table dinner. Learn how to identify wild edible and medicinal fungi and flora during this seasonal foraging walk then sit back to a cup of our wild crafted tea while you enjoy learning how to cook over a live fire with your forage. Then head into the forest dining room for your 4 course dinner. Weather dependent for fire’s and rain.
Investment: $175 per person
Your Yard ID Service
We come to you! Enjoy two hours on your property with our foraging guide Raeanna Layfield. Includes a wild herbal tea and snack picnic after we tour around the land finding what is accessible for you to forage near home.
Investment: $65 per person, min 6 people, max 12, travel time outside of Chilliwack, $35/hr
Raeanna is the most gracious and knowledgeable guide – so much information and great results! Group size is just right (12-14), 2 hours of walking gently through the beautiful forest. We even had a review session with all our bounty while we enjoyed hearty sourdough and medicinal tea. What a treat. Plants are power, they’re all we need. 🌱🍄🟫
Cancellation Policy/Refunds/Cancellations
To make these walks viable, we do need a minimum number of guests. If that threshold isn’t met, we may cancel the event and offer a full refund. We forage in rain or shine, last minute cancellations ( less than 2 weeks prior) will receive a 50% credit towards any other service we offer.
We’ll always reach out if something changes!