Join the Young Forager Club

Rewilding childhood through an interactive educational foraging community

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We believe that foraging is one of the most important skills your family can be learning right now to connect with nature and improve your health in so many ways.

We had hopes to fully launch The Young Foragers Club in April 2025 to take advantage of the abundance of spring wild edibles as families began learning. Unfortunately, we’ve had delays creating the guides and the membership page, but we would still love for families to join as soon as possible.

As a result, we’ll do a slow release of the program where you can sign up and start learning the basics of foraging right now, and you’ll be sent the full guides and can join the online membership club as it becomes available in the next couple of months.

Read on to learn what all we will offer in the Young Foragers Club and more details on the slow release.

The Study Units and Badges

The Young Foragers Club includes five study units your child will complete to help them have a broad understanding of all of the aspects of being a confident forager.

As they complete each unit, they will submit a form to share what they’ve learned and earn a badge.

Unit One: Eagle Eye Identifier

Go out and explore your backyard and local wild areas to use your eagle eye to identify wild plants! Each young forager will do a deep dive study about thirty plants growing around them to earn this badge.

Unit Two: The Safe Searcher

Understanding how to forage safely is the foundation we start with. Along with learning about how to verify the ID of edible plants before using them, you'll also study dangerous plants you might find. To earn this badge, young foragers will fill out foraging safety worksheets for edible plants they identify and will also record the identification on dangerous plants in their area.

Unit Three: The Wild Chef

After you discover the wild edible plants around you, you can experiment with including them in your diet. Getting to experience the new flavors and learning about the powerful nutrients found in these plants is a grand adventure! Each young forager will create twenty wild meals to earn this badge.

Unit Four: The Wild Healer

Along with using wild plants for food, you will also learn the ancient traditions of using plants for medicine. You will be guided on how to make simple herbal teas, salves, and other beginning herbal products to start using these amazing plants to improve your health. To earn this badge, young foragers will make herbal remedies and write nutritional reports on wild edibles.

Unit Five: Friend of the Wild Things

When we begin learning how to forage, it opens a door to learn more about the fascinating wild world around us. These wild plants don’t just benefit us; they help support the interconnected web of nature, providing food and shelter for wild animals and insects. The young foragers will study the connections between plants and wild animals, along with completing three projects to help the wildlife to earn this badge.

Online Membership Club

While we are all healthier, happier people when we spend less time on screens, in our day and age where technology is part of our daily life, we want to use these tools to make meaningful connections and share knowledge.

Parents who sign up for any membership tier can join our free Facebook group to connect with other families learning about foraging. If you sign up for our Online Membership Club (just $12 a year for printable badges or $24 a year for sticker badges) your family will access our special online membership pages where we’ll share exclusive foraging resources and calendars, nature crafts, and fun printables to help your children stay engaged. Also, as your young forager completes each badge, they can watch as their names are added to the official Young Foragers list to celebrate their achievements.

If your family signs up for the Online Membership Club, your children will also get a chance to take part in our special seasonal modules which will be launching in Winter of 2025. They will focus on additional opportunities for digging deep into learning about the wild world around them and earning bonus badges.

Membership Tiers

We know that the information and skills that we teach in the Young Foragers Club is valuable for every family and we want as many people as possible to be able to join the Club to pass on these skills to the next generation.

We created our six membership tiers that you can choose from to best suit the needs of your family, including the option to have printable badges or sticker badges your child will receive in the mail.

We hope we can serve you wherever you are in your foraging journey!

The Sticker Options

For those families who want the fun of getting things in the mail, you can choose from our sticker badge option. As your child completes each module and you send in their finished reports, they will be mailed a sticker badge for each unit. These stickers can be added to your nature journals to showcase your accomplishments, or you can put them on anything you like as a reminder of all the hard work your young forager has done!

The Dandelion Tier

$35 for mailed sticker badges, printable basic instructions and rules for each module, and worksheets to fill out or pattern after in your nature journals.

Ideal for families who have access to good field guides and wild edibles recipes, and either have a foundational knowledge of foraging or are good at winging things.

The Clover Tier

$46 for mailed sticker badges, printable in-depth guides, and worksheets to fill out or pattern after in your nature journals.

Ideal for families who are just starting out and are ready for guidance every step of the way to help them get the most out of the Young Foragers Club. Our in-depth guides will give you a vision for all of the things you can learn.

The Oak Tree Tier

$70 for mailed sticker badges, printable in-depth guides, worksheets, and access to the online Membership pages and community.

Ideal for families who are all in, getting access to our badges, guides, and our online community with extra foraging resources, craft guides, and more fun. As your child earns each badge, they can see their names are added to the official Young Foragers list. The bonus badges will be stickers.

The Printable Options

You can also choose from one of the tiers with printable badges if this option works better for your family. You will be emailed a printable file of each badge that you can print off for your child as they complete each task. These printable badges can be glued into your nature journals or anywhere else you’d like.

The Violet Tier

$7 for Printable badges, basic instructions and rules for each unit, and worksheets to fill out or pattern after in your nature journals.

Ideal for families who have access to good field guides and wild edibles recipes, and either have a foundational knowledge of foraging or are good at winging things.

The Plantain Tier

$18 for printable badges, in-depth guides, and worksheets to fill out or pattern after in your nature journals.

The Pine Tree Tier

$30 for printable badges, in-depth guides, worksheets, and access to the online Membership pages and community.

Ideal for families who are all in and want to take part in our online community with extra foraging resources, craft guides, and more fun. As your child earns each badge, they can see their names are added to the official Young Foragers list. The bonus badges are also printable.

Add Extra Siblings to the Club!

All are invited to join in the learning and fun together! If you choose the printable options, it is easy to print off multiple badges for all of your children who want to take part. But if you choose the sticker option, you can sign up extra siblings for a discount. Each extra child can be added for just $10 each.

(Important note: If you add siblings, they must complete the units together because their stickers will be mailed at the same time.)

Join Today for Early Bird Discounts!

As mentioned above, I had hopes to fully launch the club in April. We have run into some delays with finishing up the guides and setting up the online membership club. This was a big discouragement since I feel like this is a resource that needs to be available as soon as possible to families who are interested in foraging, but I also don’t have a finished project to release into the world.

So I sat down and came up with a plan to have a way for families to join today and then release the full club to them as it is completed.

If you sign up today, you will get to take advantage of all of the current early bird prices which will be raised when the full product is complete and will also get free bonus months in the online membership club!

If You Sign Up Now
for the Young Foragers Club...

Starter Pack

The Young Foragers Club starter pack that you'll receive if you join today will include:
-Complete instructions on how to earn the five badges.
-Printable worksheets for each requirement.
-The first part of the Safe Searcher guide to learn the foundation of how to forage safely.
-The first part of A Young Forager Guide to Wild Edible Plants, including an in-depth look at three wild edible plants.

The Full guides

As your family works on getting started with learning foraging fundamentals, we will work on putting the finishing touches on the remainder of the guides. These will be sent to you as soon as possible in the next couple of months so that you can continue your learning and keep earning badges!

The Online Community

The online portion of the club will be launched in June. If you sign up for it now, you can take advantage of early bird savings which will give you 4 free months of the club, extending to October 2026 before your membership expires or you choose to renew it. (Your family will get to take part in our four seasonal bonus badges while being part of the club for that 15 months.)

Be the first to join!

If your family is ready to begin the adventure right now and sign up to take advantage of our early bird deals, we will forever be grateful to you for supporting of our dream to help rewild childhood and place this priceless treasure of knowledge in the hands of the next generation.