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Flora & Fungi  Adventures

Fall in Love with the Outdoors 

Small group, hands-on foraging, fishing, arts, crafts, and cooking excursions crafted to deepen our relationships with the natural world. 

Pop-Up Ecosystem-based Dinners, Full Moon & Bioluminescence Kayaking Excursions with local Seafood Dinners and other Creative Collaboration Food Events. 

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Upcoming Events

  • Philo Fungitopia
    Philo Fungitopia
    Sat, Dec 07
    Philo
    Dec 07, 2024, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
    Philo, 9000 CA-128, Philo, CA 95466, USA
    Dec 07, 2024, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
    Philo, 9000 CA-128, Philo, CA 95466, USA
    Join us in Philo for a mushroom forage in woods surrounding a vineyard. You’ll learn to look for and identify delicious mushrooms like porcini and chanterelles and have a tasting with wine.
  • Philo Truffletopia
    Philo Truffletopia
    Sun, Dec 08
    Philo
    Dec 08, 2024, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
    Philo, 9000 CA-128, Philo, CA 95466, USA
    Dec 08, 2024, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
    Philo, 9000 CA-128, Philo, CA 95466, USA
    Throughout history truffles been revered, outlawed, inspired skullduggery and eye popping prices. Come learn about this fascinating fungi through a talk, truffle dog demonstration and truffle - wine pairing.
  • Culinary Mushroom Camp Salt Point
    Culinary Mushroom Camp Salt Point
    Sat, Dec 21
    Jenner
    Dec 21, 2024, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    Jenner, 25050 CA-1, Jenner, CA 95450, USA
    Dec 21, 2024, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    Jenner, 25050 CA-1, Jenner, CA 95450, USA
    Learn how to hunt wild mushrooms in one of the most beautiful places on earth. From identifying habitat, to ethical foraging techniques, to safety tips.
  • Culinary Mushroom San Fransisco
    Culinary Mushroom San Fransisco
    Sat, Dec 21
    Location is TBD
    Dec 21, 2024, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    Location is TBD
    Dec 21, 2024, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    Location is TBD
    Join wise forager Ambre, the “good witch”, for an immersive wild mushroom class! Discover the secrets of safe, ethical foraging and learn to identify prime mushroom habitats. After our two-hour exploration, enjoy a grazing table with a curated mushroom tasting!
  • Culinary Mushroom Soquel Demonstration Forest
    Culinary Mushroom Soquel Demonstration Forest
    Sat, Jan 04
    Soquel
    Jan 04, 2025, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    Soquel, 29400 Highland Way, Los Gatos, CA 95033, USA
    Jan 04, 2025, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
    Soquel, 29400 Highland Way, Los Gatos, CA 95033, USA
    Unlock the secrets of the forest with foragers Starlynn and Ambre in the wild beauty of Soquel Demonstration Forest—where mushrooms, magic, and adventure await!
  • Philo Fungitopia
    Philo Fungitopia
    Sat, Jan 25
    Philo
    Jan 25, 2025, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
    Philo, 9000 CA-128, Philo, CA 95466, USA
    Jan 25, 2025, 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
    Philo, 9000 CA-128, Philo, CA 95466, USA
    Join us in Philo for the final mushroom forage of the season! Flora Jayne and I will lead a mushroom forage on a beautiful private property. You’ll learn to look for and identify delicious mushrooms like black trumpets, hedgehogs, and chanterelles.
  • Philo Truffletopia
    Philo Truffletopia
    Sun, Jan 26
    Philo
    Jan 26, 2025, 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM
    Philo, 9000 CA-128, Philo, CA 95466, USA
    Jan 26, 2025, 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM
    Philo, 9000 CA-128, Philo, CA 95466, USA
    Throughout history truffles been revered, outlawed, inspired skullduggery and eye popping prices. Come learn about this fascinating fungi through a talk, truffle dog demonstration and truffle - wine paired brunch.

Our Event Refund Policy

If you cannot make an event you purchased a ticket to, please feel free to sell or gift your spot to a friend. If we have to reschedule due to weather conditions, we will offer a rain date or you can use the credit for upcoming events, but we cannot give a refund. It's not sustainable for a small, weather dependent events company to give refunds for circumstances they have no control over. Thanks so much for understanding. 

Our Guides

We are artists, chefs, makers, biologists, foragers, fisherpeople, environmentalists, dreamers and adventurers. 

“A deliciously thoughtful book with plenty of recipes for beginning or experienced foragers. I’ll have the mushroom pâté, cheesy pasta with truffles, and a candy cap old-fashioned, please.” 
Alan Bergo, James Beard Award-winning chef and author, and winner of Hulu’s Chefs vs. Wild
 
“With both simple and aspirational recipes, and delightful prose throughout, Maria Finn draws you into a deeper connection to nature through its wonderful, wild foods. Food is the lure, but the end goal is a realignment of human systems in sync with the pace and beauty of Mother Nature.”
Becky Selengut, author of Good Fish and Shroom

This gorgeous book is a celebration of wild food, foraging and cultivating connection to the natural world. The recipes inside highlight ingredients from coast to forest and inspire you to get creative, get outside and participate in the surrounding ecosystem; to live a healthier, more pleasurable, and more delicious life. 

 

- Emma Teal Privat and Claire Neaton, Co-owners of Salmon Sisters and authors of The Salmon Sisters: Feasting, Fishing and Living in Alaska & The Salmon Sisters: Harvest & Heritage

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Celebrate the pleasure of the wilderness (or even your backyard) with this approachable forage-to-kitchen cookbook featuring 110 recipes using foragable foods—from seaweed love to mushroom lust and everything in between.

Identify foragable foods in your own backyard to create simple, rustic recipes from the bounty of the coast, forest, and urban spaces up and down the West Coast.

 

Recipes include: 

  • Morels, Asparagus, Fava Beans, and Fiddlehead Ferns with Burrata

  • Black Truffle Pot de Crème with Preserved Sakura Cherry Blossoms

  • Fire-Roasted Butter Clams with Seaweed Gremolata

  • Spruce Tip and Juniper Berry Sockeye Salmon Gravlax

  • Chilled Huckleberries with Campfire Caramel and Seaweed Salt

“Flaming Pine Needle Mussels! Stinging Nettle Gnocchi! Cherry Blossom Truffles! With her backwoods bona fides and visionary palate, Maria Finn has taken foraging to the next level. No matter where you live, Forage.Gather.Feast will draw you into a delightful ‘adventure with purpose’ as it unlocks the layers of meaning and deliciousness permeating our woods and coastlines. Your kitchen game will never be the same. Neither will your soul.”

—Rowan Jacobsen, author of Truffle Hound and A Geography of Oysters

Steeped in the magic of the West Coast, Forage. Gather. Feast. is a beautiful book. Maria's deeply intuitive approach to cooking celebrates an abundance of wild foods from seaside to forests. Her book will be favorite in my kitchen for a long time.

Jenny McGruther, NTP, creator of Nourished Kitchen

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Testimonials

Maria's porcini camp was great!  She walked us through the identifying features, habitat, and indicator species before leading a forage through likely territory.  Throughout the day, Maria shared her deep knowledge of the local ecology, identified other mushrooms and plants we found while hunting, and shared stories about other mushrooming adventures.  The camp concluded with an incredible campfire porcini risotto for lunch.  While conditions on the day-of weren't ideal, we retraced our steps a couple weeks later and found several enormous porcinis!  

Andreas Bastian

Alaska Wild Food Camp changed our lives! We moved closer to Alaska after we went on Maria’s mind and mouth expansive experience last August. We paddled in a glacier lake, learned how to fish and prep whole sockeye, identify edible sea plants and forest fungi to bring back to a comfy camp and eat everything but the fin. Recommend for anyone ready to see where mother nature is still a true wild child. 

-Pamela & Denise

We went to  Alaska last summer with  Maria and her team.  The trip was well organized and in a  stunning and unique location that would not be generally available.  The food camp involved a combination of food-educational events such as mushroom hunting, seaweed gathering, breaking down salmon, and cooking.  We also did sea kayaking and guided hikes with a local expert on the  history and geology of  the stunningly beautiful area.  People could participate as they desired, it was  a low-pressure, high-fun environment that was the perfect blend of relaxed socializing with individual time and organized activities without pressure to attend.  Make room, I'm signing up for more!

Kari Kelly

Contact

Sausalito, California

415-306-2773

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