Get hands-on experience on how cattail rhizomes can be used for emergency survival food to processed flour for breads, ash cakes, muffins, and pancakes. We'll see how to identify, gather, peel, process and cook cattail cores so that they transform into a flour-like food source. By the end of the workshop we'll have gone from swamp roots to hearty ash cakes and pancakes that any normal human would enjoy.

What to Bring: We will be venturing into a swamp, bring cloths you can get dirty in up to your chest (our location and weather conditions will determine weather we are in a dried mud bed or in an open shallow pond), a change of cloths (that can still get dirty but will be dry), a big beach towel, and a plastic bag to transport the wet cloths in. All others should just bring cloths they can get dirty in. Bring a sac lunch and beverage.

Meeting Site: Wild Food Adventures, 4125 N Colonial Ave, Portland, OR 97217. SW of N Interstate and Skidmore.

Use the Registration Form available through the workshop page of our web site. For more information call Wild Food Adventures at (503) 775-3828: Enrollment Limited! - Advanced registration reserves you a place in the class. Walk ons may be turned away if our class limit is reached.