Adam Haritan
Adam Haritan is a wild food enthusiast, researcher, and forager currently residing in Western Pennsylvania. He leads several classes and workshops within a variety of habitats related to plant and mushroom identification, wild food harvesting, nutritional and medicinal benefits of wild foods, the benefits of nature connection, and more. His YouTube channel (YouTube.com/LearnYourLand) features dozens of videos pertaining to plant and mushroom identification, and his website (LearnYourLand.com) serves as a unique online community and database of naturalists and nature events. An avid proponent of wild fungi, Adam currently serves as the vice president of the Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club.
Adam Haritan is a wild food enthusiast, researcher, and forager currently residing in Western Pennsylvania. He leads several classes and workshops within a variety of habitats related to plant and mushroom identification, wild food harvesting, nutritional and medicinal benefits of wild foods, the benefits of nature connection, and more. His YouTube channel (YouTube.com/LearnYourLand) features dozens of videos pertaining to plant and mushroom identification, and his website (LearnYourLand.com) serves as a unique online community and database of naturalists and nature events. An avid proponent of wild fungi, Adam currently serves as the vice president of the Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club.
Samuel Thayer
Author of The Forager's Harvest (2006), Nature's Garden (2010), and Incredible Wild Edibles (2017). Sam is one of the leading experts in the US about wild edible plants and continues to set the mark as a foraging authority. He has been an instructor for us every year since the festival started.
Sam began foraging as a child and has been teaching and writing about wild edibles for over 20 years. Not only is his writing impeccable, he is a very engaging and knowledgeable instructor. In addition to wild food foraging, Sam is an all-around naturalist with particular interest in reptiles, amphibians, bird watching, botany, and mammals. His passion for wild food extends to studying the origin of cultivated plants and the socio-economic history of the human diet. Other favorite activities include running, bicycling, archery, fishing, cliff diving, swimming, photography, cooking, growing fruit trees, using scythes and other old hand tools, hunting, and anything with the family. www.foragersharvest.com
Author of The Forager's Harvest (2006), Nature's Garden (2010), and Incredible Wild Edibles (2017). Sam is one of the leading experts in the US about wild edible plants and continues to set the mark as a foraging authority. He has been an instructor for us every year since the festival started.
Sam began foraging as a child and has been teaching and writing about wild edibles for over 20 years. Not only is his writing impeccable, he is a very engaging and knowledgeable instructor. In addition to wild food foraging, Sam is an all-around naturalist with particular interest in reptiles, amphibians, bird watching, botany, and mammals. His passion for wild food extends to studying the origin of cultivated plants and the socio-economic history of the human diet. Other favorite activities include running, bicycling, archery, fishing, cliff diving, swimming, photography, cooking, growing fruit trees, using scythes and other old hand tools, hunting, and anything with the family. www.foragersharvest.com
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Leda Meredith
Leda Meredith is a lifelong forager (it’s her great-grandmother’s fault). She is an instructor at the New York Botanical Garden and the Brooklyn Botanic garden, specializing in edible and medicinal plants, and teaches internationally as well. Leda is the author of several books, including Northeast Foraging, The Forager’s Feast, and the 2018 release Pickling Everything. You can try out her wild food recipes, sign up for one of her foraging tours or subscribe to her newsletter at www.ledameredith.com |
Ellen Zachos
Ellen Zachos is the author of seven books including The Wildcrafted Cocktail and Backyard Foraging: 65 Familiar Plants You Didn’t Know You Could Eat. She wrote the foraging website for About.com, and shares seasonal wild recipes at www.backyardforager.com. Ellen is a regular contributor to several of the Edible magazines, and a Senior Advisor at Garden Compass, a plant identification app. She also works with RemyUSA, teaching foraging mixology workshops across the US. A former Broadway performer (cast of Les Miz), Ellen is a Harvard graduate and earned multiple certificates in horticulture and ethnobotany at the New York Botanic Garden. She taught at the NYBG for many years, and also worked there as Coordinator of the Gardening Department in Continuing Ed, before moving to Santa Fe, NM in the summer of 2014. Foraging is tougher in the desert southwest than it was in the northeast, but it's fun exploring new territory and getting to know new edible plants and mushrooms.
Ellen Zachos is the author of seven books including The Wildcrafted Cocktail and Backyard Foraging: 65 Familiar Plants You Didn’t Know You Could Eat. She wrote the foraging website for About.com, and shares seasonal wild recipes at www.backyardforager.com. Ellen is a regular contributor to several of the Edible magazines, and a Senior Advisor at Garden Compass, a plant identification app. She also works with RemyUSA, teaching foraging mixology workshops across the US. A former Broadway performer (cast of Les Miz), Ellen is a Harvard graduate and earned multiple certificates in horticulture and ethnobotany at the New York Botanic Garden. She taught at the NYBG for many years, and also worked there as Coordinator of the Gardening Department in Continuing Ed, before moving to Santa Fe, NM in the summer of 2014. Foraging is tougher in the desert southwest than it was in the northeast, but it's fun exploring new territory and getting to know new edible plants and mushrooms.
Nicholas WazeeGale
Nicholas WazeeGale began his career as a nature enthusiast as “the bug kid” and while still loving insects moved into fascination with all aspects of the Natural Realm. Time spent as a young adult in wilderness skills programs and experiences brought him into more personal and meaningful relationship with this world, particularly with the plants that provided him food and medicine. Foraging has been an integral part of his life since then, nourishing not only his physical self and family, but his connection with the Earth and his need to share the natural world with the human world. He has run outdoor programming in foraging and other wilderness skills for over 10 years at the Kickapoo Valley Reserve, Driftless Folk School, and independently. He lives with his wife and family in the wooded Kickapoo Valley of Wisconsin and spends his days as a craftsperson, hunting, gathering (and processing) wild food, running outdoor programs for children and adults, and enjoying all aspects of country life.
Nicholas WazeeGale began his career as a nature enthusiast as “the bug kid” and while still loving insects moved into fascination with all aspects of the Natural Realm. Time spent as a young adult in wilderness skills programs and experiences brought him into more personal and meaningful relationship with this world, particularly with the plants that provided him food and medicine. Foraging has been an integral part of his life since then, nourishing not only his physical self and family, but his connection with the Earth and his need to share the natural world with the human world. He has run outdoor programming in foraging and other wilderness skills for over 10 years at the Kickapoo Valley Reserve, Driftless Folk School, and independently. He lives with his wife and family in the wooded Kickapoo Valley of Wisconsin and spends his days as a craftsperson, hunting, gathering (and processing) wild food, running outdoor programs for children and adults, and enjoying all aspects of country life.
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Erica M. Davis
Erica Marciniec Davis, aka Wild Food Girl, is an experienced forager and teacher of wild food plants in the diverse elevation zones of the Rocky Mountain region. Recently married, she loves to experiment on her husband with wild food cookery, and shares her research and stories about wild food adventures at her blog, www.wildfoodgirl.com. Previously, she published a well-loved monthly magazine of edible plant accounts, short stories, and recipes called Wild Edible Notebook. Erica teaches a course on edible, medicinal, and toolcraft plants at Colorado Mountain College, and conducts plant walks and foraging expeditions around the state. She holds a BA in archaeology and an MA in education, and also works as a freelance writer and snowboard coach. |
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Matthew Normansell
Matthew Normansell is a British foraging and wild food guide who has been running successful wild food courses in Europe for the last decade. He relocated to the USA to marry his wife and business partner Megan Normansell who is a certified herbalist and health counsellor. Whilst being mostly self taught he was greatly influenced by his upbringing in the countryside and by herbalists and healers in his mothers family, and has worked and trained with some of the top foragers in Europe such as Roger Phillips as well as having met with and been influenced by foragers in the US such as Pascal Baudar and Samuel Thayer.
Matthew ran programs for local authorities, city councils, top chefs, cookery schools, food festivals and has trained Bushcraft guides on wild edible plants and fungi. He has run courses for the Oneida nation in Green Bay, and for Sam Thayer’s company, Forager's Harvest. In addition he has written for various national and local publications, online blogs, and appeared both on BBC TV and on Wisconsin public television as a foraging expert.
Matthew Normansell is a British foraging and wild food guide who has been running successful wild food courses in Europe for the last decade. He relocated to the USA to marry his wife and business partner Megan Normansell who is a certified herbalist and health counsellor. Whilst being mostly self taught he was greatly influenced by his upbringing in the countryside and by herbalists and healers in his mothers family, and has worked and trained with some of the top foragers in Europe such as Roger Phillips as well as having met with and been influenced by foragers in the US such as Pascal Baudar and Samuel Thayer.
Matthew ran programs for local authorities, city councils, top chefs, cookery schools, food festivals and has trained Bushcraft guides on wild edible plants and fungi. He has run courses for the Oneida nation in Green Bay, and for Sam Thayer’s company, Forager's Harvest. In addition he has written for various national and local publications, online blogs, and appeared both on BBC TV and on Wisconsin public television as a foraging expert.