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Connecting people to the wild flavors, medicine, and teachings from the plants of Muskoka and beyond

11/03/2025

✨ Find us in Huntsville this weekend! ✨

We’re so excited to be part of the 33rd Annual Riverside Arts & Crafts Show at Riverside Public School

🗓️ Saturday, Nov 8: 9AM – 4PM
🗓️ Sunday, Nov 9: 10AM – 3PM
📍 755 Brunel Road, Huntsville

Come explore local makers, unique handcrafted goods, and perfect holiday finds. Support local artisans and kick off your festive shopping with us!

10/31/2025

It's Wild Fire season! Fire Cider is a traditional herbal tonic created (and popularized) by Rosemary Gladstar, a well-known herbalist, in the late 1970s. It’s a spicy, tangy, immune-boosting vinegar infusion made from common kitchen ingredients and herbs.

Support the immune system. Warm the body and stimulate circulation. Help fight colds, flu, and sinus congestion. Aid digestion and metabolism. Great added to salad dressings, marinades, soups, or drinks. The perfect example of a kitchen pantry staple being used for all that ails you!

Have you ever made Fire Cider?

10/18/2025

You can find us this weekend at the with our delicious Cranberry based cocktail and mocktail mixers made with local Bala cranberries!
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10/15/2025

As the leaves now fall for the season and the plants and fungi prepare for their long rest, classes are wrapped for the 2025 year. I want to take a moment and thank every student who came to programs this year from half day intro classes to my in depth Wild Medicine and Fungi As Kin groups. I hope the classes inspired in your a deeper connection with the natural world and the drive to take the teaching into your everyday lives. I'll be back teaching next year with perhaps a few winter programs. Stay tuned in early 2026 for our course calendar. If you want to gift an experience this coming holiday season I offer VIP Class tickets that guarantee space and enhanced flexibility for 2026 programs.
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10/06/2025

Some fun snapshots from my Introduction to Mushroom Foraging and Fungi As Kin Mushroom Intensive program the last month. Even though it has been dry, there are still mushrooms in the woods to be found.One highlight for me was making jelly candy from Wood Ear mushrooms and Beech Disc jelly mushrooms. With the Late Fall, Oysters and Blewit mushrooms now showing themselves it is officially the end of the mushroom season. Get out there while you can and explore the fun Fungi while you can and if you want to learn more about wild mushrooms come take a class with me next year!
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08/29/2025

Gratitude for full harvest baskets and happy days on the land and in our gardens ♥️
Can you tell what we've been harvesting in the photos?
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08/11/2025

The heat the last few weeks has had me making gallons and gallons of cold Sumac iced tea. As the purveyor of many delicious cocktail and mocktail mixers I love a fancy drink but when the heat knocks all energy something I can batch up and simply pour over ice all I can handle. I take a gallon jar and fill third full with Sumac berries and top with cold water. Let steep for a few hours or overnight then chill in the fridge. I then strain and sweeten to taste with maple syrup or a cane sugar simple syrup. Pour over ice and you have the most refreshing and cooling pink lemonade tasting summer drink. Come to a class to learn all about how to harvest Sumac!
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08/06/2025

🌿 Don’t miss this joyful celebration of healers, plant and nature lovers — a day of learning, sharing, ceremony, and entertainment as we connect with ourselves, plants, and the natural world.

📍 Where: The Ginkgo Tree / Kina Gegoo Botanical Sanctuary, Cannington, Ontario
📅 When: September 6, 2025 - from 9am to 9pm, rain or shine
🎤 Keynote Speaker: Susan Leopold, PhD
🎟️ Register now: theginkgotree.ca/product/btyrtickets2025

Registration includes:
✅ All lectures & workshops (including keynote)
✅ Live music, festivities & parking
✅ Homemade vegetarian meals (lunch & dinner), with gluten & dairy-free options
✅ Tea & coffee throughout the day

For the full line-up of speakers, teachers & workshops: theginkgotree.ca/btyr

📅 When: September 6, 2025, from 9am to 9pm, rain or shine

08/02/2025

This week begins our annual Milkeeed Pod harvest. I love this tradition of visiting the same beautiful meadow on a friend's property year after year. Seeing how the Milkweed has spread over the last decade, carefully watching out for Monarch caterpillars (and leaving those plants undisturbed), enjoying the diversity of plants and insects these meadows support. Our picking causes little impact on the plants and like the deer our foot paths through the meadows are minor. With them we make truly sustainable pickle that I am super proud of. Have you tried them before?
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07/13/2025

It's been a HOT few days for this months Wild Medicine program. We spent the morning harvesting a wild salads made of weeds and flowers. Students pressed their custom infused herbal vinegars made in June and used as the vinegarette on their salad. We then made St John's wort and Mullein flower oil. I introduced a number of medicines on the land and each student being called to started a tincture extract. A full and wonderful day of learning on the land.
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06/24/2025

Beat the heat with our cooling Shrub Syrups! Did you know that things that taste sour can cool you down? Our most popular flavor is our Strawberry & Sumac Shrub Syrup made with local Ontario Strawberries, organic cane sugar and foraged Sumac berries infused into organic Ontario apple cider vinegar. It's tart and sweet and the most cooling and refreshing drinking served over ice and topped with sparkling water.
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05/25/2025

Spring things 💜
Taking small moments to enjoy during a busy season. Baskets full of plants and mushrooms. Bellies full of spring abundance.
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Address

25846 Highway 35
Huntsville, ON
P0A1H0

Website

http://www.wildmuskoka.com/

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