Hello Dear Friends!
We are elated to be hosting Foraging School in the Fort Myers/Naples area!
Date: February 15th, 2026
Time: 10 AM to 6 PM
Suggested Donation: $75-$150 per adult.
This is a fundraiser for the
1 Million Community Fruit Trees Initiative. Your support will help on this mission to plant 1 million fruit and nut trees over the next decade. We welcome all donations with joy and an open heart.
Please make your donation at the time or registration to reserve your space.
Donations can be made via our website here. Options include card, Paypal and Venmo. Please add the note "Foraging School Fort Myers"
As an act of deep reverence and gratitude, we are happy to provide Foraging School at no financial donation to Black and Indigenous folks. Of course, all are welcome to make a donation if desired, but we are truly happy to provide this opportunity for healing and connection.
Foraging School Schedule and Content:
10-10:30 Intro to Foraging School
10:30-12 Foraging Walk
12-1 Lunch Break and Community Time
1-3 Foraging Walk
3-5 Class
5-6 Q&A and Community Time
- Identifying, Harvesting and Preparing Wild Food and Medicine
- Foraging Walks and Plant Identification
- Tips to become a successful forager from me, an experienced forager!
- Including discussion of toxic plants
- Identifying plants to avoid and “lookalikes”
- Timing the harvest and identifying when plants are edible
- Sustainability and Ethics of Foraging
- Food Processing and Preservation
- Discussing the basics of foraging equipment — drying, freezing, canning and cold storage
- Tips for efficiency so you can actually break free from the grocery store
- How and Where to Safely Forage
- Including discussions on pesticides, industrial pollutants, car exhaust, urban foraging, etc.
- Deepening your Connection with Earth and our Plant Relatives and Living in Reciprocity
We will likely meet 15 different plants on our Foraging Walks.
There is a lot to cover, so many of the topics listed above will only be briefly discussed. We'll dive in as much as we can in the time we have.
Food
We invite you to make this a potluck and to bring food to share with others. For communal foods, we encourage:
-Package free or minimally packaged
-Whole foods - unprocessed or minimally processed
-No chemical ingredients, preservatives or dyes
-Sustainably produced/organic, locally grown, foraged/harvested
What to Bring
Food. Water. We encourage reusable dishes, utensils, cups and water bottles. Cloth towels for napkins and tissues. A chair if you have one and would like one or blankets for sitting. If you have them you can bring: hand pruners or scissors, work gloves, small bags for harvesting food. Anything else you need to meet your needs for comfort. We will not provide garbage cans, so plan to pack any trash out with you.
Foraging School will be on rain or shine.
Plant List: Here is our plant list. We welcome you to print this out and bring it with you to Foraging School. This will be a helpful resource during the plant walks and class.
Pets: We love all animals. We are requesting that no pets be brought to Foraging School. If you have a service animal that you desire to bring, please contact us in advance.
