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Fork In the Path Fork In The Path offers guided wild foraging experiences in California & online classes for the adventurous of all ages from forest to ocean.

Want to learn about foraging for fungi? Learn how to find mushrooms by learning what habitats they grow in. Discover wh...
10/07/2026

Want to learn about foraging for fungi? Learn how to find mushrooms by learning what habitats they grow in. Discover which ones are edible and which ones are toxic by learning identification skills. Come on your own and meet nature enthusiasts, or bring a friend! Join our incredible guides in the beautiful forests of Sonoma, Santa Cruz, and Nevada City on Nov 14, 15, 21, or 22; dates are filling up quickly. All classes are from 10am-2pm. L Visit our website to register.

Join us this fall for one of these upcoming fun adventures!
10/07/2026

Join us this fall for one of these upcoming fun adventures!

Haven't had the chance to join us on the Sonoma Coast (NorCal) to forage for fresh uni? We've just announced our last da...
10/07/2026

Haven't had the chance to join us on the Sonoma Coast (NorCal) to forage for fresh uni? We've just announced our last dates of the year! All the rest are full! Learn how to find, harvest, and enjoy eating delicious uni! Purple urchin are native to Calfornia, but their population is wildly overgrown because their predators have died off. As a result, they are decimating kelp and abalone habitat. We can help bring the intertidal zone back into balance by eating them! The best part is, they are DELICIOUS! Led by our wonderful ocean guides, Ryn, Maria, and Christopher.

Mycophagy in the Miombo: When Primates Go Full Forager Mode An evening with Noah Siegel, coauthor of Mushrooms of the Re...
10/06/2026

Mycophagy in the Miombo: When Primates Go Full Forager Mode

An evening with Noah Siegel, coauthor of Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast

Thurs nov 12 630-8 San Francisco

Mycophagy is a widespread yet understudied component of primate foraging ecology, with roughly one quarter of primate species known to consume fungi. Despite this prevalence, little is understood about which fungal species primates target, the nutritional benefits they obtain, or the mechanisms by which they identify edible versus toxic taxa. In this talk, we will explore western Tanzania, and the ecological significance of fungal consumption by Chimpanzees, Yellow Baboon, and Red‑tailed Monkey, where fungi contribute approximately 4% of chimpanzee and red‑tailed monkey diets and 17% of baboon diets!

tickets $20-$45 sliding with scholarships available if additional financial assistance is needed

Autumn's acorn class was treated to a fun surprise... acorn candles! Her Sebastopol class on 10/17 has two spots left, a...
10/04/2026

Autumn's acorn class was treated to a fun surprise... acorn candles! Her Sebastopol class on 10/17 has two spots left, and you can also learn about acorns at our nevada city river foraging retreat this coming week, 10/8-10/11. those will be our last acorn classes of the season!

Join us for a magical mussel foraging adventure on the Sonoma Coast. You will learn how to sustainably forage, clean, an...
10/02/2026

Join us for a magical mussel foraging adventure on the Sonoma Coast. You will learn how to sustainably forage, clean, and prepare our beautiful California coast mussels – as well as an overview of the land’s history, intertidal zone ecosystem, and what it means to be a good steward of our land and waters.

If you haven't experienced freshly foraged mussels, you will be in for a treat!

A post-foraging feast of mussels on the beach provides the perfect gathering spot to learn how to care for your mussels, ask questions, and enjoy the view. Everyone will have an opportunity to sample the bounty of what we harvested from the sea and share their takeaways from the tide pools.

Each person will take home up to 10 lb of fresh foraged mussels to share, recipes, and instructions. Don't miss this magical experience!

Join us for an experiential mushroom medicine-making class just north of Berkeley with Ryath. We will focus our experien...
10/02/2026

Join us for an experiential mushroom medicine-making class just north of Berkeley with Ryath. We will focus our experience and teachings on the essential at-home techniques used to make a diversity of medicinal forms: liquids, powders, and topicals. The techniques we'll use can be applied to species such as Lion's Mane, Shiitake, Fomitopsis, Turkey Tail, and Cordyceps, and more! Take home a 1oz tin of medicinal salve you help make.

It's Oct 1st! Got Halloween plans? Tamika Banks is cooking up a special ancestral journey on Oct 31 near Berkeley. Our...
10/02/2026

It's Oct 1st! Got Halloween plans?

Tamika Banks is cooking up a special ancestral journey on Oct 31 near Berkeley.

Our participants just received instructions on how to research what foods their ancestors foraged as a way of honoring their lineage and heritage.

Want to join us? Comment here, and we'll send you more deets!

So cool! 👀A slime mold found and photographed br Steffen Faisst and shared with his enthusiastic permission here. Devel...
10/01/2026

So cool! 👀
A slime mold found and photographed br Steffen Faisst and shared with his enthusiastic permission here.

Development of Chromatricha (probably nigra species) He says "It goes really quick … 😅"

Slime molds are in their own kingdom "protista," they are not fungi!

Ganoderma lucidum or G. sichuanense photographed by Alan Rockefeller in Oregon with 365 nanometer ultraviolet light, and...
09/30/2026

Ganoderma lucidum or G. sichuanense photographed by Alan Rockefeller in Oregon with 365 nanometer ultraviolet light, and shared with his enthusiastic permission here.

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