North – Thunder Bay - Foraging Friends: Caregiver Series with The Boreal Museum

Join Autism Ontario for a Foraging Friends Caregiver Series at the Boreal Museum and LPH Greenspace. Don’t miss out on this exciting opportunity to delve into the wonders of local nature and knowledge.

Wild Foods Talk
Come discover some of the many wild foods that grow in our Boreal Forest! We'll learn how and when to find wild foods, as well as how to forage in the wild safely. This talk will focus on many native plants and fungi that can be found in the Thunder Bay area as well as foraging techniques and sustainability practices! 

Identification will use visual aids as well as preserved specimens to solidify the experience.

Dates: May 29th and June 5th 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Location: The Boreal Museum
Address: 215 Red River Road

Foragers Walk
This guided tour will be approximately 1 - 1.5 hours long and will help discover, identify and learn much more about many easily found wild forgeable foods within our backyard. Please note, we do not actually harvest plants on this tour. Each tour will be slightly different as plants and mushrooms come and go, but there's always so much to see and find, we'll never run out of great specimens! 

We will be hiking on easy to intermediate trails for this tour, which may be difficult for persons with accessibility requirements, please reach out to us if you have any concerns whether this tour is right for you. On this tour we will meet in the parking lot for the LPH Parking Lot at the end of Clarke Street (Off Algoma Street), where you will meet your tour guide, who will be holding a sign!

Please note this will be occurring outside on nature paths that may have lumps, bumps, rocks as well as some hills. Wear sturdy footwear, remember to bring sunscreen, bug spray, and a bottle of water!

An easy checklist for what to bring:

- Water Bottle
- Sturdy Shoes (no flip flops or flats)
- Bug Spray
- Sunscreen
- An excitement to learn about our wild foods!"

Dates: June 12th, and 19th 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm 
Location: LPH Greenspace
Address: 500 Algoma Street North (Clarke Street Parking Lot)

Summer Foraging
Discover the foods that appear in our late summer forests! From mushrooms, to roots, to nuts, in this hour-long talk will introduce many of our common summer foods, as well as provide hands-on identification using preserved specimens.

Discover and get ready to learn about all the wild foods you can forage for in the later months of the summer!

Dates: June 26th and July 3rd 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm 
Location: The Boreal Museum
Address: 215 Red River Road

Total Cost: $15 
This program includes 2 sessions per topic to ensure flexibility for caregivers; it is recommended you attend a minimum of 1 of 2 sessions on each topic. Please send any additional accommodation requests to ariana.mclean@autismontario.com