Seaweed Foraging near Bodega Bay

To stand at the edge of the sea … is to have knowledge of things that are as eternal as any earthly life can be.
— Rachel Carson

Please register via our website: www.forkinthepath.org/classes (not on Meetup)

8 Class Dates:
Mornings at low tide
6/14, 6/15, 7/12, 7/13 led by Ricardo Romero Gianoli
6/28, 6/29, 7/26, 7/27 led by Autumn Summers

What You'll Learn
Learn how to identify, use, and sustainably harvest the bountiful seaweeds. Harvest up to 10 lbs of seaweed to take home and enjoy.
From ancient times to the present, seaweeds have been used by coastal people all over the world to nourish themselves and their gardens, as well as for health issues. The Sonoma coast is incredibly rich in seaweeds that can be used as food and medicine.

We will gather on the beach, review some common edible species, and head to where the sea meets shore to access and appreciate the abundant marine meadow growing on our coast.
The class also includes community building, and will conclude with a cooking demo of several varieties of seaweed.
To enhance your learning experience, the program will happen in two parts: a 3-hour live class on the beach, and a 30 min Zoom pre-class that will be recorded. The pre-class will provide an overview of where seaweeds live and how to identify and sustainably harvest common edible seaweeds growing on the northern California coast.
Where
A beach near Bodega Bay, CA. Exact address is provided with registration.
Facilitators
Autumn Summers is an avid wild foods forager, herbalist, gardener, and ethnobotanist. Autumn is passionate about sharing her 35 years of experience in an accessible and empowering way. She teaches botany, medicinal plant cultivation and how to safely and sustainably gather and use abundant wild edibles including seaweeds and mushrooms in Northern California. She is a lead educator at several local schools and Herb Pharm.

Ricardo Romero Gianoli who is a world citizen born in Madrid, Spain and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His parents are Mexican American and Swiss Peruvian. Ricardo has been living, foraging, and cooking 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 Carrie Staller.

Ticket Options
Register here: www.forkinthepath.org/classes
A portion of your program fee goes to Native American Rights Fund.

Adults

• $125 Pay it Forward (I'd like to support someone else to come)
• $100 Standard Ticket
• $75 Community Supported (these are supported by Pay it Forward tickets)

Children (recommended for age 8 and up - must be with a parent)

• $65 per child (under 18)