Here is our tentative class list.  These are subject to change, but it's a pretty good reflection of what the weekend will look like.  

Schedule Midwest Wild Harvest Festival 2025
 
Friday
12 pm- Registration starts
2:30-5:00 pm- Frist Classes
6 pm  Judging Wild Food Cooking Contest
6:30-7:30 pm Potluck 
8 pm- Keynote Presentation

Saturday
7:30-8:45am- Breakfast
9-11:30 am- Classes
11:45-12:45- Lunch 
1-3 pm- 2 hour classes
3:15-5:15 pm- 2 hour classes
OR
1-5pm- 4 hour class
6 pm- Dinner
Then Free Time

Sunday  
7:30-10 am- Classes
10:15-11:15- Brunch
​See you next year!

Class Lists (subject to change) 
Vince Aiello  (Possible Edits to Titles)

• Introduction to Foraging: Across the Seasons (X 2)
• Food and Medicine Plant Hike (X 2)

Jesse Akozbek

• Debunking Wild Food Toxicity Myths
• Learn Trees For the Last Time (X 2)
• American Lotus Processing and Cooking

Bo Brown

• Flavors of the Field and Forest (4 HRS)
• Utilitarian Plants for Survival
• Edible Insects, Yuk or Yum?

Crystal Brown

• Intentional Wildcrafting: Totally Teas
• The Art of Foraging: Wildcrafting Colors, Beyond Black Walnut Ink
• Intentional Wildcrafting: Herbal Medicine Making Intensive (4 HRS)

François Couplan  (Pending Edits to Titles)

• Keynote: How to Change Society Through Relationship with Wild PLants and Concrete Ways We Can
• Relationships with Plants and Living
• Traditional Japanese Tea Ceremony (Potentially Offered Twice)
• Japanese Cultural Relationships to Plants and Cuisine

Chris Gavin

• Modern Hunter and Gathering
• Deer Tallow Soap Making
• Food and Medicine of the Tallgrass Prairie
• Cooking with Hunted and Gathered Ingredients

Andy Gricevich

• Wild Plants and Wild Microbes: A Fermentation Exploration (X 2)
• Food Walk for the Whole Family (X 2)

Alexis Nelson


Sam Thayer

• The Ecology of Food
• Going Nuts (4 HRS)
• Sustaining the Wild Harvest

Ellen Zachos

• How to Forage for Wild Edible Plants Without Dying
• Forage like the Ancient Greeks!
• Baking with Foraged Flours (X 2)

Dwight Zietlow

• Wild Kordialls 101 (X 2)
• Wild Kordialls 2.0
• “The Feminine Way”: Deepening Our Connection to Foraging and Kordiall Crafting