Identifying Wild Edible Weeds and Making Green Superfood Smoothies
Green Smoothie
You’ll be amazed how many ‘weeds’ in your garden you can eat!
I’ll show you how to identify wild edible weeds, the ones you can safely eat and those not so good to eat, and lots about their nutritional, medicinal and cultural values. We’ll go foraging for them, identifying where they like to grow. We will then transform them, together with leafy greens and ripe seasonal fruit into a luscious green smoothie which will greatly enhance your health. In addition, there will be other ‘weedy’ treats to sample time of year and season dependent.
Upcoming Workshops
2022 Workshops
Each workshop I share the wisdom and knowledge of wild edible weeds in my large garden or in the garden of a host where we will see collections of plants all happily growing together. Come meet these pesky survivors and get to know those good to eat and those not so edible. You’ll hear cultural stories, healing stories and gain an expanded understanding of their role, nutritional and medicinal values based on my years of living with and loving these amazing plants. This is an interactive, multi-learning style event. There’s foods to sample including a nutritious green smoothie and you’re welcome to bring along plants for identification. See you there!
Upcoming workshop dates:
Greerton, Tauranga Workshop fully booked
Date: Sunday 6th November 2022
November is my favourite month of the year – the roses are flowering and the whole garden is romping ahead with the warmer weather and longer days. Plus I have a birthday! The wild edibles are growing fast too especially the annuals like Magenta spreen, Galinsoga and the Amaranths to name a few, who without fail regrow vibrantly each new season. Come along and I’ll introduce you to them, they love to be better known by people. Through interacting with them you’ll gain familiarity and confidence to correctly identify them. We’ll enjoy a shared lunch and network over good food, some of it wild inspired!
Venue: 289 Chadwick Road, Tauranga 3112
Time: 10am – 2pm
Investment: $85 (includes 74 page newly edited and updated ebook) For more information: phone/txt Julia 0274308471
Feedback
Testimonial from Liz of a visit to her garden for a one-on-one session:
After having been to one of Julia’s Edible Weed workshops at the end of September 2013, which I thoroughly enjoyed and learned lots, I found that once back in my own (very unruly) garden there were many more weeds that we didn’t come across at the workshop or else I had forgotten what they were and couldn’t find them in the book.
I asked Julia if she would be happy to come and visit my place to help me identify some of them. We spent a couple of hours meandering around finding all sorts of wonderful treasures. As Julia told me about the plant she would hand me a leaf and/or flower and I’d cellotape it in a scrapbook, add the name and any other details such as: best “added to smoothie”, “cooked”, “raw in salad”, “leaves and/or flowers eaten”.
Having a one on one with Julia gave me the opportunity to ask lots of questions which is not always easy in a big group and I now have the dried specimens from my own garden to which I can refer should there be a memory lapse.
Thank you Julia for opening my eyes to nature’s gifts all around, which enables me to sit back and enjoy the chaos that is my garden.
Liz, Pyes Pa