Foraging Classes
Multi-Day Herbal Medicine, Foraging and Mushroom Programs
Build community and go deeper in the skills of foraging and herbal medicine through gathering together through the seasons. Programs focus on providing hands-on skills, group sharing and growth, time on the land and cultivating skills for participants to take them them on their personal journeys. Programs take place in Lake of Bays.
Multi-Session Programs
Wild Medicine
A multi-season journey to connect with wild plants, historic herbal medicines and fungi. This outdoor learning environment in community through foraging and herbal medicine making will deepen your connection to the wild medicine of the land and empower your ability to create your own herbal medicines and foraged foods.
Fungi as Kin
Connect with the fungal world by building deeper relationships with mushrooms through learning beginner cultivation, identification, medicine making and foraging skills. The program includes long explorations in the forest and putting our skills into real-life practice in a fun and engaging group learning environment.
Single Day Programs
Foraging Walks & Introduction to Mushroom Classes
Beginner programs that introduce participants to foraging safety and ethics on the land and with the plants and mushrooms. Locations and seasons change and so will the species covered. Generally about 10–12 species are covered per session focusing on identification and stories of building relationship. All programs take place in the Muskoka area between Gravenhurst and Lake of Bays.
2025 Program Dates
Private Events
Interested in a custom program or speaker for your group or event in the Muskoka area? Private programs start at $450+HST for a half-day session. Please send your inquiry through our Contact Us form:
We believe connecting to nature and land-based skills should be accessible to all. If you are a BIPOC or low-waged Muskoka resident we have scholarship spots available. Reach out with an introduction of yourself to Laura at wildmuskoka@gmail.com to inquire about these opportunities.
Ethics, Values & Code of Conduct
We strive to create a safe and welcoming space for people of all experience levels, genders, nationalities and spiritual/religious backgrounds. To us, interacting with and tending the wild is a sacred relationship with the land. We also believe strongly in Indigenous sovereignty and rights here on Turtle Island.
To maintain this safe and welcoming environment we keep politics out of programs. We recognize politics are important and part of the world, but these classes are about connection with the land, ourselves, each other and skill development.
We ask that all participants be open-minded and non-judgemental towards other participants and agree to the following values:
- Respect for ALL other participants regardless of their religion, gender, nationality or political orientation.
- Being good stewards and caretakers of the earth and forest and holding reverence for the other species and kin we share this planet with.
If you have any questions about these values, please email me before registering to discuss them.
If you disagree or have issues with these values, this class is probably NOT the right class for you.
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