Tags: 2019, Ethical Foraging, Garden Weeds, Healing Foods, Herbs, Jess Starwood, Season 2018-2019, wild food

For our June 2019 event, Jess Starwood presented “Tasting the Wild: Foraging for Local Flavors and the Future of Food.”

Jess Starwood, clinical herbalist, forager, and plant-based wild food chef will discuss wild edible invasive plants, useful common garden weeds, ethical foraging and healing through positive nature connection.

Somewhere along the way, we have lost our intimate relationship with our natural world. Through natural plant medicines, wild foods and nature connection, we can rediscover ways to reignite that connection to help relieve modern-day ailments while improving physical and psychological well-being.

Jess Starwood is the owner of SunRaven Apothecary in Thousand Oaks, California which offers a wildcrafted and organic line of herbal and medicinal mushroom products. She also teaches classes and workshops for adults and children, and hosts multi-course wild food dinners and tasting events to the community. With her lifelong passion for nature and plants, Jess has studied natural health and herbal medicine for over 15 years and has a Masters of Science degree in Herbal Medicine.