Art + The Forest Workshop: Harvesting and Preparing a Wells Tea

Come learn how to transform fireweed into a delicious and delicate summer tea. Fireweed is plentiful and easily identified which makes it a perfect candidate for tea making. While simply drying the leaves makes a perfectly adequate tea we will show you how to oxidize the leaves to make a tea with a slightly fruity flavour that makes it an alternative to black tea.

Place: Wells-Barkerville School field

Materials: Scissors, Glass jar or container if you have one

Suggested Payment: No cost to participants

Drop ins welcome! Please bring a glass jar or container though as we may not have one for drop ins. Click here to register

About Art + The Forest

Come join us for our forest workshop series every Saturday starting July 3rd and ending August 21. This workshop series will focus on exploring how people can engage with and harvest from the forest in an ethical and sustainable manner. Topics will range from plant id, to making medicinals, to willow basketry. We encourage any and all to join us with one caveat being that anyone under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Learn share and discover some of the ways that we can engage with the forest and the many ways it can help to support us and our communities.

Program Facilitators: Devon Macdonald and Annie Rutherford

Ages: All with 12 and under accompanied