If your verge is full of weeds, and your garden too, learn how to identify some of the more useful ones and how we can share in their benefits. You may even decide to NEVER MOW again! That definitely deserves all caps!
Are you a local who wants to have a bit of a walk in the Sun while learning more about herbs, weeds, ecology colonialism and whatever else may pop up?
Are you a revolutionary, anarchist, anti-capitalist or something else along those lines? Come along and learn a bit about how weeds and herbs can support us as mutual aid in our efforts. You’ll even learn some of the colonial history of some of the plants you may step on every day.
If you’re interested in ecology and botany in general, come along and discover some of the ecological roles that the weeds take on when they’re not providing us medicine or dinner.
So, where can you learn this golden information?
At Food Underfoot 2026, the Mutual Aid edition.
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Food Underfoot is my annual fun, feral foraging foray in which, I, as your guide, offer too much information in two hours about a range of wild edibles and medicinals.
Food Underfoot has been running since 2017 and has been a popular local event, starting with 2 attendees and peaking at 12! I hope it do better this year – lets book out the whole 15 spots! I do ther weed walks but this one is my pride and joy.
Henry Chenoweth Park is along the South Para River and is located between the Gawler Community House and The Elderly Centre. It’s a large, flat area with easy access, even for folks with mobility issues. There is a paved bike track running through the middle of it and the area large enough for kids and dogs to safely run around. The best part about this park is that it has several different ecotones in its space that contain a large variety of wild edibles and medicinals, all easily accessed.
There are a number of wild edibles that are here every year but the Council do their best to spread them around into different places every season. If you check out the gallery below, you will see a few of the regulars and if one piques your interest, click on the image and it will take you to our page about the plant.
When is it?
Sunday, Sept 27th, at the comfortable time of 11 am, so we can all have a lay in but still finish early enough to have a coffee, lunch, or go shopping.
How do I get there?
Here’s where to book your tickets –
We offer a sliding scale of ticket prices. For transparency, I like to get $30 for my 2 hours + of information and inspiration but realise that not everyone is cashed up and some are doing it tough. That’s why we have the $20 tier to help out. There is also a $50 tier, which has proven very popular in past workshops. By buying a $50 ticket, the purchaser is helping someone come along on a lower price tier and helps us keep one of our free spots open.
Kids and dogs come for free!
But…nobody is turned away for lack of funds. If you’re really, really, struggling, shoot me a message and we’ll set you up with a free spot. No shame in asking, no judgement given, we don’t even ask for a reason.
The cash option
We know that some folks like cash, and so do we! If you’d like to pay cash on the day, please message me via this website’s contact page and we’ll arrange something. If you do this, please make sure you attend on the day as your spot will be taken from the 15 tickets and if you don’t come, someone else could miss out.
Subscriptions
You can also access one of our workshops or field trips for free is you sign up for a paid subscription to this website. We like to get $6 per month for the subscriptions but as we have a strong belief in mutual aid and such things, you can subscribe for any amount over $2/ month (any less and it starts to get chewed up in fees). Your subscription helps keep this website free for everyone by paying for the web hosting and domain name fees.
To say thanks, subscribers get a free entry to one of our events, an irregular seasonal newsletter with socially active herb and gardening information and access to our online folder of downloadable pdfs and workshop notes.
If that entices you, subscribe here –
Other herb pages on Ligaya Garden
We cover a lot of ground on many herb related topics here on our website. There are whole pages devoted to different topics as well as frequent posts. Some of the links are –