Wild & Wise Collective Calendar 2025

Our meeting dates are scheduled for once a month on Saturdays beginning at 4:30 and lasting 3-4 hours. They will be held in a private home in Elk WA. Each class will include a superb meal and drink focused on local sourcing and health minded menu (value $75), instructions each month outlined below (value $50+), and a take home gift (value $25+) to assist your new skill. Total monthly investment, $150. Pay for the year upfront and save. Great scheduled monthly date to gift yourself self care, or schedule with a family member or friend to strengthen a bond.

*January 11th 2025 - Sourdough bread 101 Leave with your own sourdough starter, demonstration, and recipe for bread and using your discard. Tasters included! Notebook for this year teachings. 

*February 8th 2025 - Planning your garden, varieties for our area, quantity, sourcing. Food, herbs, and flowers. Hands on fire cider crafting activity and take home.

*March 8th 2025 - Starting plants, varieties that do well, shop our seed bank. Detoxifying, cleansing. Make and take herbal bath salts. 

*April 12th 2025 - Raising chicks to chickens for eggs and meat. Water glassing eggs for long term storage. DIY body care product make and take.

*May 17th 2025 - Butchering chickens and using the whole bird, parting, bone broth, and organs. Spring herbal plant identification.

*June 14th 2025 - Food preservation: canning, dehydrating and fermenting. Milk crafts: cheese, ice cream. sourcing raw milk, raising your own. 

*July 12th 2025 - Pressure canning vegetables and meat. Make and take ferment. 

August 9th 2025 - Flower picking, arranging, herbal infusions. Fresh flowers in your home, make and take bouquet. Start calendula infusions for creating salves in September. Start a tincture.

*September 13th 2025 - Making healing salves, hands on calendula salve making to take home. Elderberry picking, syrup making and take home an elderberry DIY kit. Strain tincture and take. Nose to tail cooking discussion.

October 11th 2025 - Cider making and pressing live. Take home your own handmade fresh cider.

November 15th 2025 - Easy sourdough holiday focaccia bread. Making soap for Christmas gifts. 

December 13th 2025 - Simmer pot make and take. Candle making and how to include at your dinner table. Wise & Wonderful gifts.