Healing through foraging with wild herb chef Edith Keto
We took an afternoon walk with chef, herbalist and kundalini yogi Edith Keto a few weeks ago where she shared knowledge on some of her favorite local wild herbs and spirit guides indigenous to our land. She has put together a beautiful guide for the Helsinki Healing Center community about some of her favorite wild herbs that can be found in the nature in Helsinki.
Edith will be holding an outdoor wild herb course and guided tour around Ullanlinna Sunday June 19th at 17:30-19:30. In the course you will discover wild plants that are available to everyone for free, provide exceptional nutrition and impressive flavors. We will learn about some medicinal properties of the plants we discover, and integrating them into our everyday lives: herbal infusions, preserving methods, easy dishes to cook for yourself and your family. We will finish with a traditional food meditation centering around a couple of the wild herbs that we have gathered.
Download the wild herb pdf-guide here
Join the wild herb course here
Foraging is a profound way of connecting with our natural environment, especially in urban environments where many nutritious, delicious and beautiful ‘weeds’ thrive. This guide presents a few of them, suggesting an energy center or chakra that especially benefits from each herb. All wild herbs have diverse nutritional and medicinal values, so this guide simply suggests one way to familiarise yourself with each one.
In Finland, Everyman’s Right gives one the freedom to enjoy nature anywhere regardless of land ownership. This freedom comes with the responsibility to respect nature, other people and properties. It includes the right to forage everything which grows on the ground. For collecting buds or parts of trees, the permission of the land’s owner is required. If you are foraging elsewhere, check the local regulations for foraging. The plant species presented in this guide have been collected in Southern Finland, but occur around the globe. Only forage herbs that you are certain about recognizing correctly.
Edith Keto is a chef and writer, whose work rotates around connecting with wild nature. She has previously cooked with wild herb pioneer and chef Sami Tallberg, at Michelin-starred restaurant Palace, and currently, at wild food restaurant Nokka. As a writer she is a literary scholar published on posthumanism, philosophy and nature connection, and a content creator with clients such as Frantsila Herb Farm.
