Learn how to start Cooking and Creating with Wild Plants! 

Camp right on the Niangua River under the stars. In this three day class you will go on multiple wild edibles plant walks, spend time assembling Tinctures, Salves, Poultices, Wound Spray and more. The whole weekend you will get to taste new wild foods, we will assemble teas, tinctures, salve, make bannock bread, and more. 

 You will learn how to make and will take home a Home Herbal Kit Including: 

• How to identify useful wild plants, mushrooms, as well as the ones to avoid
• Assemble a tincture 
• Make a Wild Medicinal Antiviral & Antibacterial Salve 
• Make a Antibacterial & Antiseptic Wound Spray 
• Styptic Powder (Instant Clot)
• Insect Spray / Sunburn / Heat Spray ​

Plants Covered: Red Clover, Yarrow, Plantain, Pine, Echinacea, Monarda, Spicebush, Pawpaw, Maple, Sycamore, Wild Onions, Wild Ginger, Horsetail, Wild Mints, Elder, Mullein  Japanese honeysuckle, Dandelion, Burdock, Red Raspberry, and More. Bonus: Mike Snyder the Mushroom Expert from Wild Wise Botanicals will be joining us. 

Tubes will available for those that would like to Lazy River Float and saunter the river in between classes. We will also have marked trails, corn hole and horse shoes to toss. 

The weekend Includes a 6 Course WILD FEAST (Included) and Live MUSIC!

We will provide:

• Free Camping
• Wild Herbs
• Wild Foods Tasting 
• Breakfast Saturday & Sunday
• Dinner Saturday Night
• Tubes
• Portable Toilets / Solar Shower

You'll Bring:

• Tent or Hammock Set up
• Sleeping Gear 
• Personal Food / Snacks
• Shoes for Hiking
• Swim Suit / Water shoes (optional)
• Meals for Friday afternoon, Lunch Saturday and Sunday. 

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Course Instructors: 

Rachael West is the Owner, Lead Instructor and Founder of Eating the Ozarks. She is an Expert Forager, Wild Foods Chef and Author of Wild Foraged an educational culinary cookbook. She's taught wild foods in the Ozarks for the past decade working with KOLR-10 biweekly Wednesday's, the Missouri Master Gardeners, Springfield Community Gardens, Springfield Art Museum and more. She is a Certified Herbalist through both Rosemary Gladstar and Susan Weed. 

Mike Snyder of WildWise Botanicals has been hunting and studying mushrooms in the Ozarks for 13 years and is a regional mushroom expert. He has earned the Harry Thiers Certificate of Mushroom Proficiency from the Missouri Mycological Society and is a certified mushroom identifier for commercial mushroom sales in Missouri and Kansas. He is also on the North American Mycological Association cultivation committee and the Board of Directors for the Missouri Mycological Society. 

​Learn to gather your own wild food
​and make herbal medicine!

Weekend Schedule: 

​Friday:
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• Arrive and check in between 3-6 pm to set up camp. 
• 6:30 pm Learn about poultices, antibacterial, and antiviral plants!
• 7 - 9 pm Campfire, Smores

Saturday: 
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• 8-9 am Wild INFUSED Charcuterie Board Wild Infused Cheeses, Fruits, Nuts, Hummus, Cold Meats Etc. 
• 9:30 am Group Hike
• 11 Lunch + Group Class Tinctures / Wound Salve  
• 2-6 pm Break 
• 6 pm Wild FEAST with Music by Charlie Becker
• 7-9:30 Live Music ​

Sunday: 

• 8-9 am Packed Breakfast Delivered to camp, Apple, Wild Muffin, Cheese, Pickles and More. 
• 10 am Wild Edibles Hike, Work on any skills you'd like, review what we've covered. ​
• Break Camp 

Have Questions?

​Send me an Email or Call  (417) 468-8275

​We're sorry but this workshop is Sold Out!