Abram's Creek Lodge & Family Campground

3rd Annual Abram's Creek Spring Wild Edible Plants class 
April 24 - 25, 2010

This course, hosted by the Mid-Atlantic Primitive Skills Group (http://www.mapsgroup.org), is a guided walk through different local West Virginia Mountain habitats, identifying, collecting, food uses and frequent sampling wild plant foods.  It will cover approximately 40 plants, shrubs and trees.  The class will also cover when and where to safely collect plants and conservation techniques. Note: WV Potomac Highlands Ramp season should be peak or just slightly beyond peak.

Since it is Ramps (wild leek) season, the latter part of the class will focus on collecting Ramps and other edible plants for cooking the gourmet wild edible meal the next day.

The class will cook together and feast on wild edibles in the afternoon. Last year's gourmet wild edible meal was a huge success.

A relatively complete list of plants located and identified in 2008 in this workshop, complete with photos, can be viewed at:

http://www.abramscreek.com/galleries/edibles/index.html

 

 

2009’s Abram’s Creek Wild Food Gourmet Menu:

 

·         Dandelion Flower fritters

·         Ramp/mitake mushroom/red bell pepper pot stickers

·         Grilled Ramp Soup with Ox Eye daisy garnish

·         Venison Medallions w/Creamy Ramp Dip

·         Dandelion flower vegi-burger Patties

·         Ramp/yellow dock Pesto bowtie pasta with Rock Tripe/preserved Lemon topping

·         Wild plant side dishes:

o    Steamed Wintercress/Dandelion/Garlic Mustard with vinegar

o    Lightly Steamed Trout Lily leaves

o    Japanese Knotweed spears

·         Japanese Knotweed Pie

Spring Wild Edible Plant Class

Date / Time: Saturday April 24, 2010, 9:00am - 3:30pm

Location: Meet at Lodge House Community Bon-fire circle

Cost: $35

 

Wild Edibles Gourmet Meal

Date / Time: Sunday April 25, 2010, 9:00am - 1:00pm

Location: Meet at Lodge House Community Bon-fire circle

Cost: $20

 

Both Classes: $55 total

Reservations: 301-356-1885 / mapsgroup@gmail.com
Reserve your place in the class or the gourmet meal or both.

Instructor "Hue" Hueston - Hue's skill at teaching is only surpassed by his vast knowledge of primitive skills and survival techniques.  Hueston (the Mid-Atlantic Primitive Skills Group coordinator) is a different breed of explorer-naturalist.   His class adventures are a mixture of blind discovery and carefully thought out instruction.  He uses a self-developed method for teaching that centers on the traditional Native American Medicine Wheel as metaphor.  A curious naturalist that explores our natural world with predator vision, awareness and intuition, he is for the most part a self-taught and self-effacing person whose chief interests in life has been to break free of society’s current technological paradigm, gain degrees of natural knowledge and slip into nature’s simplicity.  Recently retired from military service, he has personal adventures and professional teaching experience that range the full spectrum of nature’s biomes.  Hue wants you to explore and learn the skills with him.




R L Hueston
Coordinator
Mid-Atlantic Primitive Skills Group
www.mapsgroup.org