As lifelong foragers and nature enthusiasts, we've eaten wild food our whole lives. Silvan grew up deep in the woods of North Carolina foraging elaeagnus berries and muscadine grapes and Jordan grew up foraging blueberries, blackberries and grape leaves in the New Jersey pine barrens. We met in college at UNC Chapel Hill where we both studied biology with a heavy focus on ecology and botany. Over the past 10 years we have really leaned into the foraging lifestyle and at this point basically all of our home-cooked food includes at least some foraged ingredients. 

Six years ago we began challenging ourselves every Fall to go as long as possible eating only what we've grown, foraged, fished and hunted. This experience is mostly fun, occasionally very challenging, but above all has really expanded our knowledge of how to find, preserve, and prepare wild foods. We now regularly go months at a time only eating food we've produced or foraged and Silvan only gets a little bit grumpy when she doesn't get her weekly chocolate bar. 

We put together these courses to share the foraging and gardening knowledge that we have accumulated over our lives and hope that this information brings you and your family the same amount of joy and fascination that it brings to us.