rivers & roots
Finally! Warm days, flowing water, and green shoots! Join us for a day of nature meanderings, foraging and bushcrafting:
- welcome circle, welcome to spring
- wander through the wetlands for willows
- making a balsam poplar bud salve (balm of gilead)
- coltsfoot flower harvest fir cough and throat medicine
- “winter” birchbark for crafts, birch sap and syrup,
- making woven willow basket (or other willow project of your choice)
- nature notes: frog calls, bird calls and tracks

Your Instructor
Pierre Blin
Pierre has been studying nature and wilderness skills for close to 30 years, with a focus on foraging and bushcraft of all types.
“His classes are so awesome! I’ve learned so much from Pierre. A good teacher teaches the love for learning that will drive you to want to learn more and that’s exactly what Pierre has done for me. I can’t speak highly enough of his classes.”
- Brenda Duke