Wild Kitchen Weekend & FUNdraiser (Nov 29 & 30) (future years first weekend in November)
Description:
In this season of harvest, gratitude, and togetherness, Ancestral Knowledge will gather friends and family for a weekend of hands-on food and drink workshops. Come learn, make, and feast outdoors with our community of foragers and homesteaders. This event is a fundraiser to support scholarships throughout the year. Spaces are limited but the menu is not! We will take a foraging walk together to seek and harvest late fall forest ingredients in addition to what our instructors will have planned and prepared.
Dates: November 7-8th, 10-4pm Saturday, 10-6pm Sunday.
Price: Follow the registration link for pricing, (children under 5 are free)
Location: Lanham MD
Ages: Open to the whole family! *Space is limited to 15 attendees
*If you want to bring home a bottle of fermenting mead, please bring either 32oz of honey OR $15 materials fee.
*If you are interested in bringing home some fire cider and/or sourdough starter, please bring a 8oz-16oz jar for each.
*on site camping is available! If you are coming from a distance and want to bring camping gear and stay the night on site, let us know in advance. You are not required to.
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Julie Ann Biedrzycki - President BOD/ Instructor
Julie Biedrzycki is a seasoned teacher and outdoor education specialist of over 20 years. She is passionate about ecology, gardening, foraging, herbalism, forest schooling, and sustainable living. Julie's teaching focuses on conservation, environmental awareness, deep nature connection, and outdoor education. She instructs for several organizations, offers feature programs for all manner of schools and events, and trains teachers to integrate and enhance nature education within current frameworks. In her role as President of the Board of Directors for Ancestral Knowledge, Julie brings together her expertise and love for nature, community, and education.
Heather Cornelius - Instructor
Heather has been developing her fiber arts skills for over 25 years. As an avid knitter, hand spinner, a wet/dry (needle) felter as well as plant lover, leaning towards and learning about growing and foraging dyes was a natural progression. Her plant dye journey began 15 years ago, and has become a passion. She has a dye garden, including a dedicated bed of Japanese Indigo, in her small front yard. She loves foraging and designing color palettes based on seasonal offerings from local and locations of her travels.
Keith Grenoble - Lead Instructor
Keith Grenoble has been a product of the Back to the Land movement and developed close ties to Native communities from an early age. Keith started his journey by making stone tools represented in the rich archaeological record of Tidewater, Virginia and has been teaching earth skills since 1987. Over time, Keith has become skilled in a variety of earth skills. He is very passionate about making simulations of prehistoric cookpots, and enjoys working with people of all experience levels and interests. He can often be seen catching a knap here and there.
Kyle Dexheimer - program coordinator/instructor
Kyle has joined AK with a diverse background. He attended the Coyote Tracks and the Tracker School. He has also studied various subjects under former Tracker instructors. He served in the Peace Corps in Tanzania where he should have hung out more with the potters and basket weavers instead he was focused on agriculture and trapping the rats that ate his avocados and soap.
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