A Letter from Our Director Moving from resilience to regeneration takes a community – a compassionate, creative, and committed community. Fox Haven’s team of farmers, teachers, administrators, students, volunteers, and board members moved into 2021 with Covid-19 still in play and stepped into the challenge. With 6 weeks still left in 2021, numbers tell a […]
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Despite pandemic-driven national supply-chain problems that have left large sections of store shelves empty since March 2020, the food supply has remained relatively stable. A few food categories have suffered shortages and price increases, but there has been no crisis or famine. Maybe there won’t be as many new gadgets under Christmas trees this year, […]
Fox Haven in the News! Fox Haven was featured in the Washington Post! Alongside one of our dear friends, Little Red Bird Botanicals and Melantated Medicianals🥰 View this article for insight on foraging recommendations in the DMV, plus a peek at upcoming foraging classes at Fox Haven! Full article linked in bio! Four ways to learn about […]
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Intern Spotlight Meet our Fall interns who have made the commitment to help us on the farm as a way to deepen their connection to herbs through hands-on experience, and lend a hand to Farmer Lacey as we carefully tend to our herbal crops during the start of our growing season. Meet Eziaku “Ezi” Ezi lives in Columbia, […]
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Herbal First Aid Instructor – Katelyn Jarkowiec of Hey Thanks Herbal Co Our guide today, Katelyn, gave us lots of opportunities to explore with all of our senses the plentiful medicine around us at Fox Haven. She also shared from her personal experiences using herbal medicine in her own first aid situations. Plantain The first […]
I was born ready for our July Level II forager’s program: making tasty treats. My interest in foraging grew from a “food-focused” existence centered on gardening, cooking and chowing down. I’ve learned to try to think about the planetary food web as a beautifully complex, interconnected network in which humans are but a strand, rather […]
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Wild Soda and Fermentation with Lacey Walker What a time of beauty and bounty! A pleasant lower humidity and clear skies met us for this Foragers 1 class. Lacey led us in continuing our discussion of Reciprocity, based on Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book, Braiding Sweetgrass, then introduced our topic and activity. We would learn the […]
From Ecological Niches to Grass Baskets: June Forager Level II We started our June foragers session visiting the Forager’s Patch to check on the young elderberry cuttings we’d planted. For a moment, it looked like they had vanished. New plants, from poison ivy to creeping Charlie, were living it up in the tidy space […]
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Tending to Our Foragers Patch through Mycoremediation It was an unseasonably cold, damp, and dreary May day — perfect weather for the mushrooms we’d be working with during our highly anticipated mycoremediation class. A long-time mycophile (mushroom lover), I had spent years trying to learn my way around the mushroom kingdom, a bewildering community […]
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Friends or Foes – May Foraging Class Toxic? If you’ve ever looked at a familiar backyard weed and wondered, “So, is that edible or toxic?” then this class is for you! Our instructor, Holly Poole-Kavana, introduced us to the idea that nontoxic plants don’t exist. She defined toxicity as a spectrum of the measure of […]
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