Truckee|Featured Event
Wild Edible & Medicinal Plants of Blackwood Canyon
The Sierra is full of wild food — if you know how to see it. Spend an afternoon foraging your way up Blackwood Canyon, learning to find and identify the edible plants growing along the creek and across the meadows: which ones you can eat, which parts, when they're ready, and how to gather without harming the plant or the place.
We'll move slowly and hands-on, keying out wild greens, berries, and edible flowers as we go. Where a plant carries a medicinal story too, we'll dig into it — through both Western herbalism and the energetics of Chinese medicine — but the through-line is learning to read this landscape as a pantry. Expect a guided plant sit, a straight-talking conversation about ethical and sustainable harvesting in the Tahoe basin, and the folklore and food history behind each species.
No experience needed. Curious first-timers and seasoned foragers both leave knowing more than they came with — and recognizing wild edibles they've walked past for years.
Led by Brian Wallace, Sierra naturalist and field guide, and Dr. Elena, doctor of acupuncture and herbalist. Hosted by Wild Rose Medicine, a nonprofit community clinic in Tahoe City.