Trails-to-Tasting

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Trails-to-Tasting | A Foray into Foraging

Discover the natural goodness in your own backyard through Trails-to-Tasting video series, foraging for wild edibles and creating easy to make cocktails!

During my mini-series, learn more about foraging for wild edibles that can be found all over – from your own small, urban garden, to roadsides, to natural hiking trails! We’ll learn about foraging etiquette, how plant and wildlife (especially pollinators) are interconnected, and how to create unique, handcrafted cocktails – perfect for cooling off on a hot summer day!

2023 Trails-to-Tasting Dates TBD

Wish that you didn’t need to take your phone and the old Trails-to-Tasting Video sessions out foraging with you? Snag a copy of “Trails-to-Tasting”: a foraging guide, field & plant ID, and cocktail recipe book!

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Trails-to-Tasting Cloverjito Foraged Cocktail

Master the Techniques

Explore the techniques and ingredients we’ll use to create our cocktails, from Simple Syrup, Infused Alcohols, Shrubs, Oxymels, and more! By watching these ahead of time, you’ll be ready to create your own cocktail during the Summer Trails-to-Tasting Season!

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Explore Foraging Year-Round

Aren’t local or can’t make it to a foraging workshop? Explore foraging year-round on your own with my NEW Foraging for Cocktails Workshop in a Box! You’ll receive a bottle for making your own infusions, instructions, and the plants to make a seasonal cocktail.

Workshop in a Box
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Field Guide/Recipe Book

Looking for a great gift for any nature-lover? This book doesn’t just act as a recipe book for cocktails & mocktails – it also doubles as a field guide to local wild edibles! Filled with high quality photos, illustrations, and organized by season.

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Trails-to-Tasting Wineberry Bellini

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The Spicebush flowers of spring have given way to large oval shaped leaves and green berries. In the fall, those fruits will ripen into a vibrant red and be a delicious cinnamony sort of flavor, great for all of the autumn-flavored drinks and cookies!
The Evening Grosbeak is a cold-loving bird who forages on cones of pines, spruces, firs, and other native conifers. They prefer mountainous regions and generally stay in northern North America (Canada and Pacific Northwest US). During winter migration, they may venture south, even into northern Pennsylvania, however it's uncommon to spot one of these beauties.
These Jack-in-the-pulpit flowers are bizarrely pollinated. They don't need a ton of flashy color, and sometimes it's hard to spot the flower, and that's because they rely on gnat pollinators, rather than butterflies or bees, who use flashy colors to figure out which flower they'll like.
While Spoonbill Sandpipers are not natives to North America (they migrate along the Pacific Coast of Russia into southeast Asia), we do have other types of spoonbills that are so named for their uniquely shaped bill that scoops food out of watery sand. Our native Roseate Spoonbill actually has a small migration, if they move at all. Migration is not necessarily triggered by temperature, but by access to food resources (which can be impacted by temperature among other things). The Roseate is more impacted by changing water levels which can put food out of reach, or dry the food out!
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