Schedule of Upcoming Classes
Below is the schedule of all of Fork in the Path’s upcoming classes in California.
Our classes are popular and fill up quickly. See a list of which classes still have space here. See a FULL class that you want to take? Join the waitlist.
Sign up by yourself, with an adventure buddy, or a loved one. If you’d like to arrange for a private class for your family, friends, school, or corporate group, contact us.
Sonoma Nov Mushroom Foraging Classes
Learn about the fascinating world of fungi and how to safely forage for wild mushrooms on the beautiful Sonoma Coast. Nov dates: 11/14 (FULL), 11/15(FULL), 11/21(FULL), 11/22
FULL Nevada City Nov Mushroom Foraging Classes
Join Thea & Christopher in the gorgeous Nevada City, and learn all about the mushrooms of the lower Sierra Nevada Nov 14 or 15.
FREE Nov Mushroom Classes: Edible & Poisonous Mushrooms of California (Bay Area)
FREE Nov BAY AREA CLASSES: Edible & Poisonous Mushrooms of California with Carrie
11/14 Larkspur Library 11:00am
11/17 Suisun Library 6pm
11/20 12-1pm at Branciforte Library (Santa Cruz)
11/20 3-4pm at Capitola Library (Santa Cruz)
11/21 11am-12pm at Scotts Valley Library
11/23 Menlo Park Library 3:30pm
FULL Santa Cruz Nov Mushroom Foraging Classes
Learn about the fascinating world of fungi and how to safely forage for wild mushrooms in Santa Cruz with Maya. Nov dates:
11/15 FULL. Join the waitlist.
11/21 FULL. Join the waitlist.
11/22 FULL. Join the waitlist.
FULL Nov Mussel Foraging (near Bodega Bay)
Join us for a mussel foraging adventure and tasting near Bodega Bay, California. Take home mussels to share with family and friends. Offered Nov 7, 2:30 pm- 5:30 or Nov 8, 3:30 pm- 6:30. CA fishing license required.
FULL - Nov Urchin (Uni) Foraging (Sonoma Coast)
Sunset urchin foraging! Learn how to find, forage, clean, and prep sea urchin “uni” fresh on the beach, or take home to share with friends. Requires a CA fishing license.
11/22, 11/23, 11/24, 11/25 FULL. Join the waitlist.
See the next available uni dates here.
Earth-Friendly Holiday Decorations Making Workshop for Kids (Berkeley)
Skip the disposable decorations and make your own from natural, Bay Area-abundant, biodegradable materials! Craft mushroom ornaments, citrus garlands, and greeting cards. All materials provided. Fun for the whole family. Bring a child, a grandchild, or your inner child. All ages welcome, and this class will be geared for younger children.
FREE Dec Mushroom Classes: Edible & Poisonous Mushrooms of California (Bay Area)
FREE BAY AREA CLASSES: Edible & Poisonous Mushrooms of California with Carrie
Dec 1 6:30 pm, Mountain View Library
Dec 3 5:30 p.m., San Anselmo Library
Sonoma Dec Mushroom Foraging Classes
Learn to safely forage for wild mushrooms on the beautiful Sonoma Coast! Dec 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, 27
Dec Mussel Foraging (near Bodega Bay)
Join us for a mussel foraging adventure & tasting on the beautiful Sonoma Coast. Learn intertidal ecology & take home mussels to share with family and friends. Offered afternoons, Dec 5, 6, 20. CA fishing license required.
FULL Dec Urchin (Uni) Foraging (Sonoma Coast)
Sunset urchin foraging! Learn how to find, forage, clean, and prep sea urchin “uni” fresh on the beach, or take home to share with friends. Requires a CA fishing license.
Available Dates: Dec 6, 7, 8, 21, 22, or 23
Bring a friend or family member visiting for the holiday with you and share the magic of Sonoma Coast Sunsets!
Active Mushrooms of CA & the World (Berkeley & Online)
Do active mushrooms grow naturally in the wild in California? Yes, they do! Learn where and how to find them, and also hear about groundbreaking global research on new discoveries in active mushrooms. Great for beginners and advanced myco-enthusiasts alike.
Santa Cruz Dec Mushroom Foraging Classes with Alan Rockefeller
Learn about the fascinating world of fungi and how to safely forage for wild mushrooms in Santa Cruz with renowned mycologist Alan Rockefeller. Dec dates (not a series): Dec 13(FULL), 19(FULL), or 20. 10am-2pm.
Nevada City Dec Mushroom Foraging Classes
Join Thea & Lon in the gorgeous Nevada City, and learn all about the mushrooms of the lower Sierra Nevada Dec 19 or 20. These are our last mushroom foraging classes in Nevada City of the season.
Santa Cruz Dec Mushroom Foraging Classes with Maya
Learn about the fascinating world of fungi and how to safely forage for wild mushrooms in Santa Cruz with Maya.
Dates: Dec 26 & Dec 27
FULL New Year’s Mendocino Mushroom Hunting Retreat
Join us for our New Year’s retreat in Mendocino. It will be 3 nights, with all meals chef-prepared, and two full days of exploring and mushroom hunting on the gorgeous Mendocino Coast.
FULL: Join the waitlist.
Wild Feast: A Cooking Class + Dinner with Chef Chad Hyatt - near Berkeley
Join us near Berkeley pm for a fun, delicious, and fully participatory wild food cooking class & dinner with entertaining and popular mushroom chef, Chad Hyatt. You will be SO glad you came to this!
January Urchin (Uni) Foraging (Sonoma Coast)
Learn how to find, forage, clean, and prep sea urchin “uni” fresh on the beach, or take home to share with friends. Requires a CA fishing license.
Available Dates: Jan 22, 21, 22 (not a series)
FULL Weave Your Own Ribs Style Foraging Basket (Berkeley)
Learn to weave your own 8-inch ribs-style foraging basket made from reeds from start to finish in this half-day workshop. All materials provided.
“Surf & Smurf” Ocean & Forest Foraging Mendocino Retreat with Christian Schwarz & Chad Hyatt SAVE THE DATE
Join us Feb 18-21 for our Surf & Smurf retreat in Mendocino for one day of mushroom foraging with Christian Schwarz and one day of uni foraging with Ryn Sullivan, with all meals prepared by Chef Chad Hyatt. SAVE THE DATE - Registration is not yet open; be the first to hear when it does by joining the waitlist here.
Wild Feast: A Cooking Class + Dinner with Chef Chad Hyatt - near Berkeley
Join us near Berkeley pm for a fun, delicious, and fully participatory wild food cooking class & dinner with entertaining and popular mushroom chef, Chad Hyatt. You will be SO glad you came to this!
An Evening with Paul Stamets: How Active Mushrooms Can Help Save The World + Tapas by Chef Chad Hyatt (in person & online)
Join thought leader Paul Stamets and popular mycochef Chad Hyatt for a fascinating and delicious evening in Berkeley. Paul’s talk will take us on a journey through the history and possible future uses of Active mushrooms and share his thoughts on how they could help save the world. Chef Chad will be serving mushroom-themed tapas (sold separately)
An Evening with Noah Siegel: When Primates Go Full Forager Mode (San Francisco)
Join Noah Siegel, Co-Author of the California Guidebook, "Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast," in San Francisco for "Mycophagy in the Miombo: When Primates Go Full Forager Mode." Do we forage like monkeys, or do they forage like us? Do they eat toxic mushrooms? Learn the answers to this & more. Tickets available.
Mushroom Medicine Making - Berkeley
Join us for an experiential mushroom medicine-making class. 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. Take home a 1oz tin of medicinal salve you help make.
FREE Wilderness Safety - Tools & Tips (online)
What happens if you get lost or stuck in the woods on a hike? Join local Search and Rescue experts with 30 years of experience for a free talk that covers essential survival gear to bring with you to the woods, wilderness preparedness strategies, and real-life rescue case studies, so you can stay safe and ensure you're never the one who needs saving.
FULL Wild Feast: A Cooking Class + Dinner with Chef Chad Hyatt - Berkeley
FULL Join the waitlist or the next one is Jan 17 or Feb 27 (scroll down)
FULL Into the Ancestral Realm: A Ritual Journey for Ancestral Connection (near Berkeley)
Join us this Halloween for a guided ritual that begins when you sign up and can continue as a lifelong practice to connect more deeply with yourself and your ancestors.
FULL Oct Urchin (Uni) Foraging (Sonoma Coast)
Sunset urchin foraging! Learn how to find, forage, clean, and prep sea urchin “uni” fresh on the beach, or take home to share with friends. Requires a CA fishing license.
10/26 & 10/27 (FULL; join the waitlist)
See the next available uni dates here.
FREE Oct Mushroom Classes: Edible & Poisonous Mushrooms of California (Bay Area)
FREE OCT BAY AREA CLASSES: Edible & Poisonous Mushrooms of California 10/20 Mill Valley Library 6-7pm
FULL Weave Your Own Ribs Style Foraging Basket (near Berkeley)
Learn to weave your own 8-inch ribs-style foraging basket made from reeds from start to finish in this half-day workshop. All materials provided.
FULL Join the waitlist
FULL Making Tasty Treats with Acorns & Bay Nuts (Berkeley & Sebastopol)
Learn to ID, process, & eat yummy acorns & bay nuts.
October 17 (Sebastopol) FULL. Join the waitlist.
FULL Mushroom Farm Tour + Lunch (Moss Landing)
Join us in Moss Landing at Far West Fungi’s Mushroom Farm. Take a tour of the farm, learn all about mushroom cultivation, and enjoy a mushroom-themed lunch in a beautiful setting.
Nevada City Foraging Campout
This retreat includes 3 nights of camping with hot showers, all meals with farm and foraged fresh ingredients, and 4 days of Sierra Nevada ecological and foraging programming, including:
swimming in the Yuba River
edible & medicinal plant foraging
basket weaving from gourds & pine needles
making natural sodas
acorn & bay nuts
We'll be camping together on a beautiful ranch with a sauna that's 5 minutes from the river
Regenerative Mushroom Cultivation (Santa Cruz)
Join Maya in Santa Cruz and learn outdoor mushroom cultivation techniques that can be applied to species like psilocybe, lion’s mane, turkey tail, blewits, oysters, & more!
FULL Stumped No More - Mycorrhizal Tree ID Class for Mushroom Hunters (Berkeley)
Can you identify host trees that shape where mushrooms grow? Learn to read key field clues, like bark texture, leaf arrangements, cones, & acorns, to distinguish hardwoods from softwoods quickly. After an ID quiz with leaves & fruits, we head outdoors to apply your skills on live trees. Walk away with a practical toolkit for tree ID, making you a faster, more successful mushroom hunter stumped no more.
FULL Join the waitlist HERE
Basket Weaving Workshop with Gourd & Pine
Learn the process of creating a basket made from gourds and pine needles.
Speaker Series: Traditional Foods, Medicines, and Songs of the Land with Joe Salinas (Berkeley)
In this talk, Joe Salinas of the Kashia Band of Pomo Indians will introduce us to his People's perspectives on foraging, highlighting wild foods and powerful medicines found right in our backyard.
Make Your Own Foraging Knife
Make Your Own Hand-Forged Foraging Knife over Labor Day Weekend in this 3-day workshop. Deepen your foraging practice by making your own tools. By the end, you will have forged your own blade, carved your own handle, and fashioned your own holster, ready to accompany you on a lifetime of foraging adventures.
FULL Weave Your Own Ribs Style Foraging Basket (Berkeley)
Learn to weave your own 8-inch ribs-style foraging basket made from reeds from start to finish in this half-day workshop. All materials provided.
FULL Join the waitlist here.
FULL Seaweed Foraging - LAST CLASS OF THE SEASON (Sonoma Coast)
FULL. Join the waitlist.
Learn how to identify and sustainably harvest the bountiful & nutritious seaweeds. Harvest up to 10 lbs to take home and enjoy.
FULL Aug Sunrise Urchin (Uni) Foraging (Sonoma Coast)
This date is FULL. Join the waitlist or scroll down & sign up for the next one on 10/26.
Seaweed Foraging (near Bodega Bay) - LAST OF THE SEASON
Learn how to identify and sustainably harvest the bountiful & nutritious seaweeds. Harvest up to 10 lbs to take home and enjoy. Led by Autumn
FREE Mushroom Classes: Edible & Poisonous Mushrooms of California
FREE CLASSES: Edible & Poisonous Mushrooms of California with Carrie
8/1, 2:30 pm at Noe Valley Library (San Francisco)
Seaweed Foraging (Sonoma Coast)
Learn how to identify and sustainably harvest the bountiful & nutritious seaweeds. Harvest up to 10 lbs to take home and enjoy. Led by Autumn.
FULL Sonoma Coast Foraging Campout, July 16-19
This retreat is full. Join the waitlist.
Our Sonoma Coast Foraging Campout includes 3 nights of camping with hot showers, all meals with farm and foraged fresh ingredients, and 4 days of Sonoma Coast ecological and foraging programming, including seaweed, sea urchin, plants & more
FULL July Sunrise Urchin (Uni) Foraging (Sonoma Coast)
This class is FULL. Join the waitlist here, or sign up for our next one Aug 13.
Sunrise urchin foraging! Learn how to forage for sea urchin, or “uni.” Requires a CA fishing license. We ride at dawn!
FULL Mushroom Cultivation - Outdoor Species (Berkeley)
This class is FULL. Join the waitlist here.
Learn outdoor mushroom cultivation techniques that can be applied to species like psilocybe, lion’s mane, turkey tail, blewits, oysters, & more!
June Mushroom Foraging in Mount Shasta - Last Class of the Season
Join us in gorgeous Mount Shasta for a one-of-a-kind mushroom foraging class in the most beautiful environment. Learn about morels, spring porcini, and other montane mushrooms & plants found in the region.
June 6, 7, 20, 21 10am-3pm (4 stand-alone half-day classes, not a series)
Seaweed Foraging (Sonoma Coast)
2 June class dates: mornings at low tide
6/19 with Ricardo
6/20 with Autumn
Learn how to identify and sustainably harvest the bountiful & nutritious seaweeds. Harvest up to 10 lbs to take home and enjoy.
June Sunrise Urchin (Uni) Foraging (Sonoma Coast)
Sunrise urchin foraging! Learn how to forage for sea urchin, or “uni.” Requires a CA fishing license. We ride at dawn!
Class offered: June 14 5:00-8:30am
FULL Wild Feast: A Cooking Class + Dinner with Chef Tim Shaw - Berkeley
This class is FULL. Join the waitlist here. Join us in Berkeley from 3-6:30pm for a fun, delicious, and fully participatory wild food cooking class with entertaining chef, Tim Shaw. If you've never had the chance to experience Tim's food and teaching, you will be SO glad you came to this! And if you have, you already know how much fun - and how incredibly delicious this is going to be.
Sierra Nevada Ecology
In our Sierra Nevada ecology class, we will learn about montane ecology, including fungi and plants, wildflowers, soil, land management, land history, and more!