PLANT WALK & FORAGING FOR TEA
2025-04-26 10:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Plant Walk & Foraging for Tea — special collaboration with Herb Club LA
April 26, Saturday, 10 am to 1 pm

Location: TBD (will be updated upon registration)

Prices: $45 (Senior/student 35)

Event information:

The School of Self Reliance (Christopher Nyerges) and Andrea Jimenez, a certified naturalist and herbalist, from Herb Club LA are teaming up to create a foraging plant walk and tea experience.

Andrea Jimenez is an LA native who has a passion for bridging the connection between community, land, and health.

In this collaboration we will be uniting for an exploratory plant walk and participate in brewing our own teas with expertise from both the School of Self Reliance and Andrea Jimenez (Herb Club LA).

We will be walking and exploring native and non-native plants in our environment, their uses, how different cultures used them, for food, medicine, and tea.

We will identify and forage local plants that offer both nutritional and medicinal value.

We will learn practical skills and apply them by enjoying freshly brewed herbal teas created from that harvest.
Bring a notebook, and comfortable walking shoes! Bring water as well.

Allow extra time for parking & being on time.

You can register for this unique offering through the eventbrite link here, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/plant-walk-foraging-for-tea-tickets-1301597395849

SURVIVAL SKILLS Class, ON-LINE
2025-03-07 19:00 - 21:00
Friday, March 7, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., SURVIVAL SKILLS Class, Five Weeks, $75
One of the best deals in town!
on-line class
FIVE CONSECUTIVE FRIDAYS

Sponsored by Pasadena City College. Call (626) 585-7608 for information and registration. Cost to college is $75.
This course consists of five two-hour classes, on five consecutive Friday nights.
The Class topics include the following:
Wild Plants for food, medicine, and other uses, focusing on plants that are currently in season.
Everything we need to know about Water: How to find it, how to purify it, how to store water — and more.
How to make fire with both primitive and modern methods. You’ll learn the 4 Principles by which fire is made.
How to make and use a shelter when you get stuck in the outdoors. Simple lean-tos to more complicated shelters will be shown.
Tools and supplies will be discussed — you know, all the stuff you buy for your pack.
Other topics include natural navigation, finding fibre from natural sources and making cordage, dealing with no electricity or no toilet, and more.
The conversation and questions from students makes this lively and engaging. Taught by Christopher Nyerges.

EAT TO YOUR HEALTH: A Wild Food Foraging Walk
2024-07-13 10:00 - 13:30
Saturday, July 13, 10 a.m.
EAT TO YOUR HEALTH: Wild plant FORAGING
Your food should be your medicine! We will walk in a local area and learn which (wild) foods can be great food, and great medicine! You’ll learn about some of the nutritional values of the plants we see, and we’ll compare them with the common vegetables you buy in the store. The walk will be casual, along a riparian area with mixed native California plants and introduced exotic plants.
We will see a variety of the plants currently in season. Remember, we will see WILD FOODS and WILD MEDICINES, and these will be plants that might be growing in your backyard.
We will see both natives and non-native plants on this walk. You will learn how to use the plants for simple medical applications, and how to make simple salads and soups. Most of the plants we will see are widespread.

Location sent with registration.
Dress appropriately for the weather, and carry water. Bring a bowl for soup and salad!
$65 (seniors/students $45)

WILD FOOD WALKABOUT
2024-05-04 10:00 - 13:30
Saturday, May 1, 10 a.m.

WILD FOOD WALKABOUT
In this class, we’ll walk about the watershed area in search of the seasonal plants. After our rains, we’ll see lots of the greens that develop in winter and spring in California. Who knows? We might even see mushrooms, though mushrooms are very unpredictable.
We’ll discuss edible, medicinal, and useful plants we find, and collect greens for soup.
Where it’s safe to do so, you’ll also learn to make fire without matches, and then we’ll make and cook soup!
Dress comfortably. Bring your bowl, and your water canteen for our walk. If you have an ethno-botany notebook for plant samples, bring it along so you can continue to keep records of your findings.
We’ll meet in the Arroyo Seco, with the exact spot sent out after you register.
$65 (senior/student $45)

wild MUSHROOM TALK -- FREE
2023-05-21 14:00 - 15:30
COME AND JOIN A FREE MUSHROOM TALK BY CHRISTOPHER NYERGES
May 21, 2 p.m. at Placerita Canyon Nature Center, 19152 Placerita Canyon Road, Newhall.
www.placerita.org
