Wild Plants & Medicinals Walks
Year-round walks in San Francisco, South Bay/Palo Alto, Santa Cruz, Marin, Sonoma Coast, and Oakland. Learn local edible and medicinal plants with a guide.
Teachers: Erin McKinsey and Alexandra Hudson.
Wild food foraging in the Bay Area.
Walk a city edge for edible plants, learn a low-tide shoreline, or cook from the coast when the season and tide allow. Join a scheduled class, or bring your own group.
Current public classes.
If you're ready to join a scheduled class, start here. The live booking calendar has the current dates and availability.
Seaweed Foraging Classes
East Bay and Half Moon Bay classes run spring-summer; Sonoma Coast runs spring-fall. Learn edible seaweeds, low-tide timing, and responsible coastal harvest.
Teachers: Tanya Stiller and Heidi Herrmann.
Crab, Clam & Coastal Harvests
Tomales Bay, Bodega Bay, and other coastal days built around tides, licenses, harvesting, and the cooking/eating part of the class.
Teachers: Steve Conwell.
Private events. It'll be a great day.
Teams, clients, birthdays, friend groups, families, and private-property walks all start with the same question: what kind of day fits the season, date, and group?
Wild plants
A guided edible-plant walk through Bay Area parks and city edges. Flexible, practical, and good for mixed groups.
Coastal Crab, Clam, and Mussel
A food-forward coastal day with harvesting, cleaning, cooking, and eating when tide, season, licenses, and guide availability line up.
Your land
If you have acreage, a ranch, a large yard, or private property, we can teach your group what grows there.
Built for groups that want something real to do together.
These are guided days in real places: a plant walk in a park, a low-tide coastal forage, or a private-property survey. The format changes with the season, terrain, tide, and group.
TeamsA hosted field day with something to learn and talk about.BachelorettesLocal, outside, and better than another tasting room.BirthdaysA walk, harvest, or coastal meal shaped by the season.Client daysA Bay Area experience that feels specific, not canned.Friend groupsPrivate, guided, easy to join, and built around the date.
What people say after class.
A few public Yelp reviews from people who came out with forageSF over the years.
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Dana N.
Private crab-fishing event
I can't recommend Steve and ForageSF enough...
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Michael Z.
Mushroom foraging class
Iso shared his passion, knowledge, and advice about mushrooms.
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Miguel F.
Wild edible plants class
Erin was very knowledgeable and great at explaining...
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A few useful things before we plan the day.
What it isGuided Bay Area wild food walks and private events built around edible plants, coastal shellfish, private land, and the season.
How it feelsOutside, hands-on, hosted, and a little strange in the best way. Guests do not need any foraging experience before they come.
What shapes the dayDate, tides, terrain, group size, comfort level, and guide availability decide the route and format.
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Why forageSF?
forageSF is built around the kind of outdoor food day most groups would not put together on their own. You bring the people; we bring the route, guide, safety notes, seasonal knowledge, and cooking details when the day calls for them.
Real Bay Area terrain. Parks, beaches, tide windows, shorelines, and private land when it fits.
Guides who teach what they practice. Plant walks, seaweed, shellfish, coastal cooking, and mushrooms in season.
A group day with a story. People identify, gather, cook, taste, or at least notice the place differently.
A few days outside with forageSF.
Wild plants, coastal harvests, seaweed, mushrooms in season, and groups learning together in real places.
