Overview:

This course will teach students how to identify 50-75 different species of plants, trees, shrubs, ferns, and lichens.

Purpose:

To learn the uses (edible, medicinal, or camping) of wild species, and learn to distinguish poisonous and toxic species.

Topics:

• basic principles of ecology and habitats,
• species preferences and site distribution,
• rules and regulations,
• safety and health concerns,
• ethics of plant foraging.

Students will also learn to make teas, salads, jams and bannock.

Duration:

• seminars (2 three-hour evening sessions or 1 eight-hour Saturday session) , plus,
• field hike (9 hours)

Misc:

Course field manual available at first session, $ 9.95.

Not offered this semester; available on request