Sea Urchin Uni Foraging

Hello Wild Foodies! We're thrilled to bring you to the ocean this summer for sea urchin foraging on the gorgeous Sonoma Coast.

**Register here, NOT on Meetup: https://www.forkinthepath.org/schedule**
Three classes (not a series)
Nov 5: 3pm - 5:45
Dec 4: 3pm - 5:45
Dec 18: 3:30pm - 5:45

We forage at low tide!

What You'll Learn
Save Kelp, Eat Urchin!
Join us at sunset 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. Requires a CA fishing license.

Where
A beach in Northern Sonoma. Exact location provided with registration.

Instructors
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 has been teaching and connecting folks to nature through food and crafts for over 10 years. 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.

Additional support staff includes Fork in the Path founder Carrie Staller.