The web site and registration forms for the Midwest Wild Harvest Festive are now up. You can go there via http://www.wildharvestfestival.org

Sorry folks, we filled quicker than ever before! Whew! Usually we aren’t full until May. All registrants have been notified  and confirmed by email. Any further registrations we receive will be returned. Thanks for your overwhelming support and enthusiasm.

Here are other Wild Food Events that are sure to be equally wonderful  and came to us as suggestions by one of our registrants.

Sorry, registration for the pre-summit is closed.

Each day the registrations are coming in and we have to operate on a first-come, first-serve basis. The Wild Food Summit will be full once we reach 100 people. Geez it is flying this year !!!

Here is a link to an article  that includes the Wild Food Summit written by Jerri Cook for Countryside and Small Stock Journal

http://www.countrysidemag.com/issues/95/95-6/wild_things.html

Potluck Food Line!

This year we will once again offer a Pre-summit, Wednesday, June 20th, arrival- Thursday the 21st features a one day intensive on wild edibles. We will focus on id-ing and foraging for Wild edibles of the area and show how to harvest and prepare some of our finds.

Pre-Summit: Intensive Edibles Gathering
($30. Per person)

Wednesday, June 20th

• arrival Registration starts at noon
• evening presentation

Thursday, June 21st-

• Full day Intensive: Foraging and learning wild edibles

Wild Food Summit (WFS): June 21-24
($65. Individual Registration and $115. for Family Registration)

• Fri & Sat. – Morning presentations
• Fri & Sat.- Afternoon open sessions
• Saturday- Open Barter and trade session
• Saturday – Night Talent Show
• Sunday – Feedback session for future summits and Camp breakdown

Details of WFS: It is an honor to welcome back Sam Thayer as a Featured Presenter. Since 2000, when he won the Hazel Wood National Wild Foods Cooking Contest, Sam has been teaching regularly on edible wild plants and giving workshops across the United States. To learn about Sam and the wonderful books he has written, Nature’s Garden and The Forager’s Harvest, go to foragersharvest.com.

Registration: Please note the registration form here and under our registration tab. We fill up quickly so it is a first come first serve. 2012 WFS Regist Form

At the Summit: Our check –in /registration table will be open by noon on Thursday. The summit begins with a 6:30 potluck Thursday Night, June 21st. A core element of the summit is to establish a community in which all contribute to the preparing, cooking, cleaning, set- up, and break down of the camp. This becomes extremely important for a Summit that last year grew to 125 people. We will have volunteer/task coordinators who will help gather people to help cooking and camp needs

Hosts: We are a staff of three at  Extension Service of the White Earth Tribal and Community College. We invite you to come and enjoy and respect this beautiful Tribal Park at Little Elbow Lake operated by White Earth Tribe.

Deer Visitors

Check back for future updates! Thanks!

Popped Wild Rice

The White Earth Powwow is the previous weekend so our new 2012 dates are Thursday, June 21st to Sunday, June 24th at Little Elbow Lake Campground.

Sights and sounds from the 2010 Wild Food Summit. Over 100 people attended and survived the thunderstorms and the high winds to learn about, gather and share wild foods.

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Sumac in all its beauty!

We have some exciting presenters and cooks lined up. Steve Dahlberg will again be joining us with his unique skills and insight into a variety of wild edibles. He will also be sharing some procedures as well as product from his food fermenting techniques as well as open fire baking. Fermenting and eating wild edibles should be a memorable experience for all. Tom Peterson will again make the trip all the way from Southern Minnesota to share with us his many years of knowledge about mushroom foraying. Tom joined the Wild Food Summit for the first time last year and introduced us to the Fungi world. He will be back with more information on this fabulous source of wild foods. Because of Tom’s contributions, we consumed 73 pounds of mushrooms at last years Summit. Randy Smuk also joined us also in the 2009 summit and proved he is a true master of wild food menu planning as well as absolutely delightful wild foods cuisine. Randy will be back this year to tickle your taste buds with his culinary skills and wild food cuisine. Mike Krebill has just completed 20 years of research with his 7th grade students on the best way to make consistently good sumac lemonade. They have came up with two different ways and Mike would be happy to demonstrate them. He will bring the sumac and other items needed to produce the lemonade. As an added bonus, Mike will also demonstrate a couple of techniques for rendering acorns edible.

Laura Reeves is a botanist from Gardenton, Manitoba.  She runs Laura’s “You can eat that?!” Wild Edible Adventures“, which offer a hands-on introduction to incorporating wild edibles into everyday meals.  She is also a co-instructor of Wilderness Skills courses in southwestern Manitoba.  Over the years, Laura has weaned herself off of grocery store produce and now relies solely on the fruits and vegetables that she has gathered or grown, herself. This year, she will focus her talents on showing people how to “break through the wall of green” when identifying wild edibles. It is a unique instructional style that is varies from traditional individual plant identification. She will also provide a cordage workshop with materials gathered from the local environment

Article from Community of a Plate

Wild Food Summit 2009

by Meredith Hart and Emily Larson

It is hard to get more local than finding your own food in the forest next to your campsite. Of course, it helps to have experts explain which plants are edible and nutritious, and which ones should be avoided like the plague. From cattails to wild mushrooms, and from plantains to wild sumac, there is a plethora of food in the natural world that we see daily but never view as food. The idea of bringing the wild into our lives was the theme of the fourth annual Wild Food Summit at the White Earth Rediscovery Center on White Earth Lake, White Earth, MN that occurred from June 17th to 20th. The White Earth Tribal and Community College Extension Service founded and hosted this event, and it grows and changes with each passing year.

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(via www.wildfoodplants.com)

Another great year at the Wild Food Summit on the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota. This was our 4th Annual gathering and this year we had a spontaneous music recording with all the awesome musical talent attending. Listen to the Wild Food Summit song as you watch the video!