The Field & Forest Kitchen School
And other educational offerings of Acorn Kitchen Nutrition
Where curious eaters,
critical thinkers,
+ plant lovers unite!
Ready for embodied learning, inside and out?
The Field & Forest Kitchen School is for you if:
- When you stare at a forest’s edge, does it mostly look like a wall of green, faceless, strangers?
- You want to deepen your relationship with the land, and the plants (+fungi) are specifically calling you.
- You’ve been curious about eating wild edibles but aren’t sure where to start.
- Perhaps there’s a foraging book or two on your shelf, maybe a few herbalism books, but certain aspects—plant I.D., processing methods, and are intimidating.
- You’re already a lover of food, cooking, the outdoors, and plants AND you’re ready to go deeper. You want to skill up, increase your literacy with plants, and build techniques in the kitchen.
- You also want to shake it up and get inspired. Who doesn’t get tired of making the same old thing or get bored with their own cooking?
- For you, this is more than creating precious food, survivalism, or so called “self-sufficiency.”
- Instead, you’re attracted to all the potential ways more connection with land could bring beauty, healing, and integrity to your life.
- While you’re excited to jump in, accountability and ethics are core values of yours, and you’re eager to ask hard questions about how identity, power, and inequity intersect and might show up in a wildcrafting practice.
It’s time for…
Re-enchantment with the garden, sidewalk, or park’s common weeds. Start seeing these plant communities for who they are—ready to share an abundance of magical gifts and nourishment. Once you learn to recognize these friends hidden in plain sight, how you relate to any roadside, median, abandoned lot, or farm field, will forever change.
Intimacy and literacy in the language of healing plants. You won’t just learn names and physical features but build friendships and understand their personalities. Every walk, course, and class Carly offers holds both science, culture, spirit, and tradition—offering a multi-dimensional take on herbalism, wildcrafting, and culinary arts.
A re-ignition in the kitchen, finding the pleasure and joy with cooking. From sampling local spices, exploring simple fermentation techniques, or cooking wild nutrient dense greens (already volunteering in your garden), we get creative, playful, and lean into pleasure together.
Challenge—to sharpen your skills, think critically, and stretch in new ways.
Community with other inspired kitchen and plant wizards.
Hi, I’m Carly Leusner of Acorn Kitchen Nutrition.
I lead plant walks, culinary medicine workshops, and nutrition education programs in Cummington, MA and other places in Western, Massachusetts. My educational offerings are vibrant, mindful, and informative; my 15+ year love affair with plants, cooking, and nutrition still simmers with passion.
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