Bay Area & Beyond Foragers - Mushrooms, Plants, Seaweed +

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: www.forkinthepath.org/classes

August 9th 5:45am
August 10th 6:00am

We forage at low tide!

What You'll Learn

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 more urchins than you can eat, the Sonoma county limit is 40 gallons which is more than one can possibly carry. 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. 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.

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

Join us for a fun, delicious, and fully participatory wild food cooking class with entertaining chef, Tim Shaw.

Under Chef Tim's guiding hand, we will work our way through 5 or 6 dishes, focused on seasonal summer ingredients. We will put together a complete meal, from appetizer through dessert. The class will culminate in a shared dinner.

We will provide all the ingredients, knives, and stoves that you need. But if you have a knife you like to use, you're welcome to bring it! Otherwise. just bring you a Tupperware for leftovers (if we have any!) and come hungry!

The class is $100-$150 sliding scale, which includes the cooking class plus dinner. To register, please go to www.forkinthepath.org/classes (NOT on Meetup)