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Winter Botany & Wild Foraged Tea w/ Marc Williams
February 15 @ 12:30 pm – 4:00 pm
About the Workshop: Winter Botany & Wild Foraged Tea
Grow your foraging skills with this immersive Winter Botany and Wild Foraging Workshop and garden walk designed to awaken your senses and deepen your relationship with the natural world. Led by ethnobotanist and long-time Firefly instructor and friend, Marc Williams, participants will explore the art of plant identification during one of the most challenging and rewarding times of the year – when flowers, fruits, and leaves have mostly disappeared, leaving subtle clues in their place.
This workshop is perfect for anyone looking to expand their knowledge of botany and practical Asheville-area foraging during the winter dormant phase.
During this class, we will:
- Embark on a garden walk to meet and identify local plants
- Engage in dialogue about off-season plant characteristics and ethnobotanical applications
- Discuss various resources for further study
- Deepen our relationship with some plant friends as we connect with them in their dormant state
- Finish the afternoon with wild foraged tea and connection
Skills that will be learned and practiced include: basic and winter botany, foraging/ethnobotany, and wild tea preparation.
This class will be held on Saturday, February 15, 2025, from 12:30 – 4:00 pm near Asheville, NC.
This class is suitable everyone! The minimum age is 10 with an adult.
About the Instructor: Marc Williams
Ethnobiologist Marc Williams has studied the people, plant, mushroom and microbe interconnection intensively while learning to employ botanicals and other life forms for food, medicine, and beauty in a regenerative manner. His training includes a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies concentrating in Sustainable Agriculture with a minor in Business from Warren Wilson College and a Master’s degree in Appalachian Studies concentrating in Sustainable Development with a minor in Geography and Planning from Appalachian State University. He has spent over two decades working at a multitude of restaurants and various farms and has traveled throughout 30 countries in Central/North/South America and Europe as well as all 50 states of the USA. Marc has visited over 200 botanical gardens and research institutions during this process while taking tens of thousands of pictures of representative plants and other entities. He has taught hundreds of classes to thousands of students about the marvelous world of people and their interface with other organisms while working with over 100 organizations and particularly as a Board of Directors member of United Plant Savers, Plants and Healers International, and online at the website www.botanyeveryday.com. Marc’s greatest hope is that this effort may help improve our current challenging global ecological situation.
Equitable Pricing Model $75 – $25
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In order to make our workshops more accessible, we offer two price options for each class, with an additional Equity Discount for qualifying individuals. Please consider these options and select your price at checkout.
- Sponsor Price $75: For those who have enough to share, thank you for being a Sponsor. This is an opportunity to contribute towards the cost of the class for someone else.
- Standard Price $50: The Standard reflects one person’s share of what it costs to produce the class and cover basic expenses.
- Equity Discount $25: We offer an additional Equity Discount for those from the following communities who support reparations and/or an equitable redistribution of wealth and would not have access to this workshop without this discount:
- Indigenous or Native American, Black, Latino/a/x
- Other peoples of the global majority, or racialized communities
- Ethnicities underrepresented in the Southeastern earthskills community
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