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Harvesting wild plants that could otherwise invade native plant areas reducing environmental impact, and our carbon footprint.
08/11/2024
Do you drink herbal tea? We ❤️ it! A good cuppa is good for the soul & body. We make our own here at FFF. It saves so much $ and is so much better when you harvest it yourself - you know what is in your tea, no chemicals, no carbon footprint, organic and not shipped 1/2 way round the world or made exploiting underpaid workers.
It's so easy to do - we'll be showing you how to make it yourself at our next workshop Foraging in your backyard
Herbs & Wild medicinal Workshop
Not to mention all participants in our next workshop will be taking home their own jar of self made wild herbal tea, having a cuppa and enjoying an afternoon tea wild food smorgasbord of tasty treats.
So excited for this event with our brand new local community house 😜 1/2 places sold out already! https://www.trybooking.com/CWPNE
Harcourt Valley Community House, in partnership with Free
Food Foragers presents
Foraging in your own backyard
Herbs & Wild Medicinal Intensive Workshop
Sunday 24 th November (12pm - 3pm)
@ Harcourt Valley Community House, Old Railway Station, 23 Station St Harcourt
Cost $100
Have you always wanted to know what herbs and edible plants are in your own
garden? What medicinal uses for wild herbs and common plants are growing in
your own backyard?
Well now you can learn from one of Australia’s leading Foraging Educators Ingrid
Button from Free Food Foragers. Ingrid will be hosting an exclusive event
immersing you in the world of wild edibles, herbal medicine and foraging for your
health & wellbeing. In this 3 hour intensive workshop you will learn how to
confidently forage for yourself – learning from a nationally accredited educator
with over a decade of foraging education experience.
We will feast on foraged ingredient gourmet treats with a herbal afternoon tea
experience. With cake, savoury nibbles and of course wild foraged herbal tea all
created by our Foraging guide.
This is an authentic experience not to be missed as we learn together about all
the amazing plants and herbs that nature has to offer all around us growing wild
and free!
Includes:
Identification Q&A session with one of Australia’s leading wild food experts – bring in
your samples from your own backyard to find out if they have uses
Learn how to confidently forage for yourself – learning from a nationally accredited
educator with over a decade of foraging education experience.
Medicinal & edible w**d identification walk
Make your own wild herbal tea take home pack
Herbal high tea with delicious foraged nibbles, cake & taste testing herbal tea we make
Learn how to make wild herbal remedies
How to dry & preserve herbs.
To book go to https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1311106
04/11/2024
Some illuminating VERY exciting news coming soon!
We're finally putting on some social foraging events with glowing performances from our head forager Ingrid. She's playing with fire again 🔥🤪
Keep an eye out for more to come 🤗
01/11/2024
Native pink flowering Elderberry burst into bloom yesterday 💖 it's my fav Elder - I have a habit of collecting varieties of Elderberry around our farm! It's exquisite almost black and green leaves are so special.
I'm making Elderflower syrup for our upcoming event
Foraging in your backyard
Herbs & Wild medicinal Workshop
🌿ONLY 6 PLACES LEFT! wow this one is selling out fast > tickets available here
20% of profits go to Harcourt Valley Community House so let's support this great community initiative together ❤️
31/10/2024
Happy Beltane & Halloween for yesterday!
Our family celebrates Beltane which is a joyous spring salute to Mother Nature- basically we throw flowers in the air - feast and offer thanks for the beautiful gifts nature has given us in the season past and ask for happiness in the season to come! ❤️🌼 we give offerings on our Nature Altar of Hawthorn & Elderberry flowers to symbolise healing and rebirth.
BUT that being said we also love a good costume dress up opportunity so we do both Despite my feelings of disgust at the American corporations take over of what was originally a pagan festival - that takes place in Autumn! Called Samhain (pronounced sa-ween) Hence the pumpkins they were a symbol of the last harvest before winter 🎃 And don't even get me started on the plastic and the sugar consumption of modern Halloween!!
But I swallow all that deep down and take my son trick or treating cause we love dressing up! Hope everyone had a great day no matter what you were celebrating yesterday ❤️
29/10/2024
WHAT W**D IS THAT??
Wild Fennel
Don't fear foraging, learn and dispel that fear & find your own free wild food.
Next workshop 24th November 12-3pm hands on intensive 3 hour foraging education experience - Foraging in your Backyard Herbs & Wild medicinal Workshop https://www.trybooking.com/CWPNE
28/10/2024
Thanks for being a top forager and making it on to our weekly fav forager list! 🎉 Duang Tengtrirat, B Diy Barks, Leisa Rule here's some happy flower joy from Foragers Family Farm to you 😀
27/10/2024
This one you probably know- good old Dandelion! 🌼 BUT did you know it's a powerhouse of vitamins K, A, C, B, not to mention potassium, iron & zinc?
BUT wait there's MORE!
It also has anti inflammatory properties, helps regulated your blood sugar and blood pressure, is super high in antioxidants- helping to prevent cell damage, aids digestive health and even boosts your immune system!
And promising research has been conducted over the past few years showing dandelion root extract to be extremely effective at targeting cancerous cells- leaving healthy cells unharmed.
What more could you ask for?
Tasty AF salad green or spinach replacement, make a great tasting coffee alternative from it's root. Such an amazing plant - yet so many people treat it as a w**d to be sprayed- it's even the poster child of w**ds for most w**d killer advertising! - that drives me nuts when I see people spraying this healing herb - when I am trying to get it to spread all over my vegie patch! 🌿🤣
Dandelion flowers are a beautiful addition to any meal, especially rice paper rolls as our newbie foragers at last weekend's workshop discovered!
Oh and you can even make a vegan honey replacement from Dandelion and apple flours boiled down (with sugar) very authentic faux honey so I'm told! :)
If you'd like to learn how to confidently forage herbs and know stuff like this then join us at our Foraging in your backyard
Herbs & Wild medicinal Workshop
20% of ticket sales go directly to Harcourt Valley Community House a great new community run organisation- dedicated to connecting locals and helping the community.
Feel good about the food you are harvesting yourself and eating - no carbon footprint, no chemicals, no cost.
Plus you get to help out a local community run space with yout ticket purchase - feel good pat on the back all round 😉
24/10/2024
How beautiful is this plant? You may know it as a w**d you rip out! BUT it's a healing herb that you should be harvesting. This is Stickyw**d AkA Cleavers - Gallium Alpine if we're being scientific! It's packed full of amazing health benefits namely as a cleansing herb 🌿 it aids your lymphatic system in removing toxins from your body.
If you'd like to know more about the incredible herbs growing free to forage all around you then join us at our 1st ever half day workshop Foraging in your backyard
Herbs & Wild medicinal Workshop
We only have 11 places left for this very special event, which includes a wild food feast afternoon tea, making your own foraged herbal tea kit to take home & how to make herbal medicinal remedies
20/10/2024
It's Hawthorn flower season and nothing gets this forager quite as excited as these blossoms! It means Beltane our big Spring celebration is just around the corner 🥰 aside from being a beautiful sight they are also a great medicinal addition to our herbal tea promoting healthy heart function and tasting delicious 😋
20/10/2024
What an amazing workshop today. Huge thanks to the great group of people who joined Oscar and I to make it such a special day 😀 We enjoyed wild herbal tea made from mallow, stickyw**d, chickw**d, plantain, lemon balm and native mint bush flowers. Then everyone made their own edible art rice paper rolls with dandelion flowers picked on our identification walk, calendula, onion w**d & borage flowers with miner's lettuce and chickw**d. Some tofu, rice noodles and dipping sauce made our foraged tasty treats complete! Beautiful and delicious 😋 can't wait for the next event showcasing 6 new edible w**ds coming soon. So much to forage in spring time I can't fit it all into one workshop!!
16/10/2024
For the last 2 years our family has been working to bring our farm and foraging to you. I'm so happy to give you a sneak peek into the progress of our brand spanking new workshop space!! I was tiling and renovating up until I was about 6 months pregnant with Baby Astrid. Who now hangs out with me while I work and try to finish this massive project in-between baby naps and real life, running a farm and a small business. If you ever chat with me and I say "been a bit busy lately" this is why! 😆 still very much under construction but considering 5 years ago when we bought this property this space was a hoarder shed and you couldn't walk in there for all the rubbish, it's an insane transformation!!
16/10/2024
So lovely to hear from a long time forager and friend Jeff Montgomery today who has been coming to our workshops for years and I'm proud to hear how much he has learnt, he made his own onion w**d flower pickle to be savored for xmas! Here's my pickle and his side by side. To be honest I think his looks better! (The 2nd pic) I love seeing how people get passionate about foraging after coming to our workshops and how they share that passion with others 😀 on ya Jeff
16/10/2024
How to make onion w**d flower pickle in 3 minutes! So easy!
I'll be serving this in rice paper rolls on Sunday at our next event FOOD is FREE Foraging for Beginners Workshop 5 places left if you want to come taste this for yourself 😀 Tickets avail here https://www.trybooking.com/CVZRG
15/10/2024
Have you ever had FORAGING FOMO? I have been having it bad! Worried I'll miss this season's onion w**d flower pickle like I did last year - cause I was so pregnant I couldn't bend down to pick them! 😆 but I haven't missed pickle day this year, video of recipe and how to make is my next job 👍♥️get out there and harvest some onion w**d flowers before it's too late and help reduce this w**d's invasive impact on native habitat areas and waterways = win win. Yum for you, good for the bush 😋
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12/10/2024
Mmmhmmmmm spring foraged greens omelet! Is your mouth watering yet? Tasty and pretty! Video with how to make this on its way!
08/10/2024
Making your own wild tea is so easy and a great way to boost your immune system. I'll be making a pot of my special herbal tea at our next event FOOD is FREE Foraging for Beginners Workshop. We only have 6 places left if you'd like to come learn how to make your own tea with me 😀 this is one of the first foraging recipes I ever made and a great way to learn about edible herbs that grow free right under your feet.
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Happy Beltane & Halloween for yesterday!
Our family celebrates Beltane which is a joyous spring salute to Mother Nature- basically we throw flowers in the air - feast and offer thanks for the beautiful gifts nature has given us in the season past and ask for happiness in the season to come! ❤️🌼 we give offerings on our Nature Altar of Hawthorn & Elderberry flowers to symbolise healing and rebirth.
BUT that being said we also love a good costume dress up opportunity so we do both Despite my feelings of disgust at the American corporations take over of what was originally a pagan festival - that takes place in Autumn! Called Samhain (pronounced sa-ween) Hence the pumpkins they were a symbol of the last harvest before winter 🎃 And don't even get me started on the plastic and the sugar consumption of modern Halloween!!
But I swallow all that deep down and take my son trick or treating cause we love dressing up! Hope everyone had a great day no matter what you were celebrating yesterday ❤️
WHAT WEED IS THAT??
Wild Fennel
Don't fear foraging, learn and dispel that fear & find your own free wild food.
Next workshop 24th November 12-3pm hands on intensive 3 hour foraging education experience - Foraging in your Backyard Herbs & Wild medicinal Workshop https://www.trybooking.com/CWPNE
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For the last 2 years our family has been working to bring our farm and foraging to you. I'm so happy to give you a sneak peek into the progress of our brand spanking new workshop space!! I was tiling and renovating up until I was about 6 months pregnant with Baby Astrid. Who now hangs out with me while I work and try to finish this massive project in-between baby naps and real life, running a farm and a small business. If you ever chat with me and I say "been a bit busy lately" this is why! 😆 still very much under construction but considering 5 years ago when we bought this property this space was a hoarder shed and you couldn't walk in there for all the rubbish, it's an insane transformation!!
How to make onion weed flower pickle in 3 minutes! So easy!
I'll be serving this in rice paper rolls on Sunday at our next event FOOD is FREE Foraging for Beginners Workshop 5 places left if you want to come taste this for yourself 😀 Tickets avail here https://www.trybooking.com/CVZRG
Have you ever had FORAGING FOMO? I have been having it bad! Worried I'll miss this season's onion weed flower pickle like I did last year - cause I was so pregnant I couldn't bend down to pick them! 😆 but I haven't missed pickle day this year, video of recipe and how to make is my next job 👍♥️get out there and harvest some onion weed flowers before it's too late and help reduce this weed's invasive impact on native habitat areas and waterways = win win. Yum for you, good for the bush 😋
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check out my herbal balls!
My latest invention = herbal tea balls! :) watch how easy this is!
I love a good bargain, saving and making something amazing out of very little. I'm also a gourmet foodie borderline food snob! If you're anything like me you're a bit choosy about mayo. The mayo I grew up eating is now $15 bucks a jar! So a few years ago my bestie made some quick and easy homemade mayo and showed me how. Now I'm sharing the secret to 60 second mayo with you all. Thanks Kate, I haven't bought mayo since you showed me this great hack! ❤️
1 egg
1/2 cup oil
Splash of vinegar
Pinch of salt
Sprig of dill
#recipe #mayo #mayonnaise #homemade #diy #youcandoit
Mushroom season is finally getting started. These inedible Yellow Stainers are everywhere atm and can fool you! More to come soon!
#mushrooms #fungi #foraging #mushroomhunting #victoria
Mallow, wild rocket, Icelandic frost plant and more urban foraging at it's best!
For all my fellow foragers in urban areas this one is for you! And shout out to any vegans or those of us who run out of eggs while baking this explains how to use Mallow as an egg substitute!
Our 1st attempt at weedaculture
Success! Weedaculture is working!!! Cute piglet alert! 😊
Identifying Yellow stainer mushrooms, field mushroom identification = what not to eat.
With so many mushrooms popping up in people's lawns, I thought I'd share a video on how to identify Yellow stainer mushrooms aka the bad guys. Remember be safe with your foraging.🍄❤
Please feel free to share so others can pick safely and avoid upset tummies this season!
And yes mushroom WORKSHOP events are coming, just need some more mushrooms to get the season started in central Victoria! :) stay tuned!
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Free Food Foragers is a ‘Mum run’ grass roots initiative that started 4 years ago with a simple moment of gardeners frustration. While pulling out endless w**ds from the garden and getting covered in sticky w**d, I asked “You pain of a plant, you have to be good for something more than sticking to my clothes?”
This started my research, when I discovered this sticky w**d otherwise known as Cleaver was in fact an edible w**d and had great health benefits, a passion for more was ignited and it never stopped.
Before I knew it is was endlessly prattling on to my family about it with “did you know you can eat this… and it does this for you…”
Eventually my Partner in crime Misha said to me “find someone who does want to hear about your wild food stuff cause it’s great and all but I’m sick of hearing about it, I’ll eat it but I don’t want to hear about how good it is for me!”
This was how Free Food Foragers came to be, I thought to myself that he was right, I would find someone who wanted to hear about it and maybe my hobby can become my business.
After 3 years of research, foraging and homestead life living off the land we have reduced our food bill by over 50% from foraging, growing our own produce and keeping livestock.
It’s not all life on the Prairie nice and easy lifestyle, in fact it’s hard, time consuming work trying to balance living off the land with modern lifestyles and a young son who’s been with us on this journey all the way.
Now we run workshops regularly with great success, teaching others to forage and remove invasive w**d edibles from the wild and add them to their menu!
This blog is to share with you the trials and triumphs our continuing journey has to offer. It’s a brutally honest and sometimes funny account of our weird and wonderful family adventures with some helpful hints thrown in along the way.
