Foraging Wild Sea Urchin (Uni) to Restore Balance

**Register here, NOT on Meetup: https://www.forkinthepath.org/schedule**
Save Kelp, Eat Urchin!
Join us at sunrise for a sea urchin foraging class, where we will help remove some of the overgrown sea urchin population - so we can eat it! We will teach you how to open and enjoy this incredible delicacy. You may have heard it called “uni” in a sushi restaurant, but it’s SO much tastier when it’s fresh. Take home up to 35 urchin - if you can carry that much! Learn how humans can be a helping hand to restore balance to ecosystems impacted by climate change.

Class Dates (not a series)

• May 17
• May 31
• June 14

Sonoma Coast, California
All registrations must be completed on our website here

#### What You'll Learn

We're thrilled to bring you to the ocean to forage for sea urchins on the gorgeous Sonoma Coast.
This 3-hour class is all about sea urchins or uni, as you may have heard it called in a sushi restaurant. Learn where they live, what they eat, and who eats them...but more specifically, who hasn't been eating them and how that has impacted our kelp forests, and how humans eating them actually lends a helping hand to bringing our intertidal zone back into balance!
Take home up to 35 urchins. You'll have a deeper understanding of how some of our ocean habitats are the first major biomes to experience sudden collapse due to a rapidly changing climate, and how we can mitigate the damage.

#### Where

A beach in Northern Sonoma, about 2.5 hours north of San Francisco. Exact location provided with registration.

Instructor
Ricardo Romero Gianoli has been living, foraging, and cooking in Northern California since 2008. One of his passions and career focuses is kelp forest restoration. Ricardo is a certified restoration scuba diver and kelp forest monitor who has surveyed sites from the Salish Sea to Orange County but he focuses his restoration efforts on the Sonoma and Mendocino coasts. It is his greatest joy to connect people with the ocean through adventure, food, and education in the intertidal zone.

Ryn Sullivan brings over 10 years of experience in outdoor education and nature-inspired crafts to our team. As a backpacking guide, naturalist, and lifelong maker, they’re always finding new ways to work with what’s around us while caring for the ecosystem. They’ve been foraging since childhood and diving headfirst into their passion for the intertidal zone and all the creatures that call it home. They are involved in many sea urchin projects and are excited to teach Fork in the Path's students how to find and eat urchin as part of their holistic restoration efforts. When not foraging, you might find them teaching wilderness first aid classes, free diving for purple urchins, or crafting cordage from the irises in their backyard. Ryn is a certified Wilderness First Responder, yoga teacher, and California fishing guide.

Pricing
Our pricing is sliding scale $55-$125 with scholarships available. Kids are welcome too!

More Important Details
These programs are very popular and often fill up very quickly. We encourage you to register right away if you'd like to attend! If you are reading this, the class is not full. Space is updated daily.

About Fork In The Path
Fork In The Path offers transformational foraging experiences in California for the adventurous of all ages. You can check us out on Instagram here.