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🍄‍🟫 Professional foragers
🌿 Ethically harvested wildfood from the temperate rainforest
🌲 Store: Unit 1, 692 Beach Rd, Qualicum Beach, BC

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OUR FRIENDLY FORAGER BURGER. Hand smashed Beef topped with Gooey Brie Cheese, Wild Chanterelle & Button Mushrooms, & house Rosemary mustard Aioli. HUGE THANK YOU TO OUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBOURS UP THE STREET. @forestfordinner ( definitely check them out )

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🌲 THE FOREST HAS A PLACE AT OUR TABLE! 🍄

Oh, the beautiful abundance that grows right here on Vancouver Island!

We're thrilled to welcome @forestfordinner to our HARVEST community! ♥️

Founded by Célia Auclair and Benjamin Patarin, this incredible wildcrafting business is helping us rediscover something pretty magical: the delicious, nourishing foods growing in the forests around us.

Wild mushrooms, berries, botanicals and flavours that tell a story of place.

But what I love most is their WHY.

Forest for Dinner believes in harvesting responsibly, respecting the ecosystems that sustain us and reconnecting people with the natural abundance of our Island.

And here's where the collaboration gets even more delicious!

Our friends at @rustedrakebrewing have created a Spruce Tip IPA in collaboration with Forest for Dinner, bringing the flavours of the forest into a glass. 🍻

Two local businesses, one delicious collaboration and another beautiful example of what happens when we champion one another.

THIS is what HARVEST is all about.

Knowing where our food comes from. Celebrating the hands that gather it. Supporting the people who care deeply about the land we call home.

A huge, heartfelt welcome to Forest for Dinner!

🌾 HARVEST | October 29 | Arbutus Meadows

Come discover the makers, meet the people behind the products and experience the abundance of Vancouver Island around our Long Table.

🎟️ Tickets at the link in bio.

We harvest what we cultivate. ♥️

#HypeWithHeart #ForestForDinner #HarvestLongTable #VancouverIsland #WildFood #SupportLocalBC #CommunityIsMedicine

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Spent the afternoon at Swayne Creek Ciderhouse in Errington 🍏
Orchard views, sheep grazing in the field, and dry, crisp ciders made from apples grown right on the farm. This is exactly the kind of local producer I love supporting. Already dreaming up what to pair with that cider… 👀

#farmtoglass #localcider #localfarmers #sapphireroom

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"Slug eating a Shroom" ft @platesfromjay

Ricotta herb stuffed "Banana Slug Ravioli", foraged mole, confit & pickled mushrooms, yarrow & marigolds plated on @bevellisfineart custom "log bowl" to bring the dish to life. (Slide 4)

I think this is the most fun I've ever had crafting a dish in my life. I see a hundred slugs a month on my forage walks and have become quite fond of them. The guests love them on the forge walks and they have a certain whimsy when you get lucky enough to catch one nibbling on a mushroom on the most floor. I get asked all the time if they are edible (yes, ask @jpeatsbc) but I figured this was a more approachable take.

See the video of the slug model who inspired the dish on slide 3.

Ive had this idea in my back pocket for sometime and found the perfect time to serve it. The giggling in the kitchen was abundant and the guests felt the fun in the air as the plate hit the table with shock and awe.

Shout out Justin for making the little guys and for one of the most enjoyable services I've had in a very long one.

Bev created these gorgeous bowls inspired by trees on @fawnbluffprivatelodge alongside common mushrooms I've cataloged in the past. Couldn't think of a more perfect collaboration to present this story on.

Mushrooms are a combination of hedgehogs, chanterelles, chicken of the woods, and chest nuts both found onsite and gathered by @forestfordinner

#bananaslug #pasta #artonaplate #eatlocalBC #vancouverfoodie

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We are open 11-3 today for all your last minute Thanksgiving weekend wants, needs, and just have to-s 😂

For our foodies, check out these gems by
@salsagonzales
@forestfordinner
@catieshotdilledbeans
@yellowdeermustard
@saltspringseasalt
@canadianseasalt
@sea_salt_chocolate
@triplesmoke

And then for those hostess gifts we recommend a fall themed candle by @wickandwave or handburned wooden spoon by @honeybeezigns

We have so many pottery, clothing, skincare, and home decor options too - all sourced from the raddest humans who live within 150km of us!

#smallshop #westcoastbestcoast #mypqb #thanksgivingweekend

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Big congratulations to our member @forestfordinner on opening their first retail space in Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island! If you’re in the area, stop by for wild gifts, forest pantry items, mushroom-enriched coffee, wild herbal tea, and more!

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Hail, hail, the gang’s all here! 🥳🍁

Every last piece of The Harvest Collection has arrived, and for the first time, we get to show you the whole gang together. 🙌

Nine wonderful products from Canadian small businesses, brought together in one box, along with the stories of the people and places behind them in a “Story Menu”, full of recipes and ideas for putting your discoveries to good use.

The Harvest Collection · $120
Free local pickup in Ottawa
Delivery available throughout Ottawa-Hull/Aylmer.

↓ Canadian goodness from coast to coast to coast.
coastcubed.ca 🍁

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We are so excited to announce the soft opening of Forest For Dinner. A stunning addition providing educational foraging experiences and education using respectful harvesting practices. Welcome to Qualicum Beach!

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"The Spice Merchant" inspired by @thespicemerchant.ca

Maple posset, Wildberry veil, pastry cream, puffed grains, salmon Berry, seabuchthorn gel

Final course of our tasting menu @fawnbluffprivatelodge

This dish was inspired by a desire to make a dessert where the star is @thespicemerchant.ca spices. Stephen & Chelsea run an unbelievable spice shop in Calgary. (Find them here @crossroadsmarketyyc) . Stephen aka @unchartedbackpacker is a stunning fellow who travels and photographs breathtaking work featured in @natgeotravel. Aside from that, they source single origin direct from source spices from all their travels and I mean it when I say I have yet to find another supplier to match their heart, quality, and variety in Canada to this date. Every chef has their "secret spice"...mine happens to be a couple dozen most folks never heard of from these gems that bring flavours not of the norm.

Inspiration comes from wild places - ask @platesfromjay
Who saw me sit on a milk crate and stare at our spice jars until I yelled out "ah ha!!" And then prepped this.

I wanted to tell a story of Canada's diversity, and how so much influence has come to one place - and to each chef- to create the unique amalgamation that is Canadian food & culture. Maple being the only dang thing we are known for as the base, with our most exported good as a garnish (grains) and a complex blend of spices from countries that inspire my cooking to balance and add layers (see last slide).

Maple all spice posset, Wildberry mah Kwan veil, cassia cinnamon & long pepper pastry cream, passion fruit pepper seabuckthorn gel, puffed Emmer and red fife with alder and all of the above spices, frozen salmon Berry druplets add temperature+ texture, and tangerine gems.

#dessert #spices #diversity #storytelling #chef

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We've got lots of treats for foodies in store, all Canadian products.
#gift #shop #campbellriver #westcoast #vancouverisland

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Wild food from the forests of Vancouver Island 🌲🌿⁠
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@forestfordinner brings wild food to your pantry with a selection of foraged goods, from preserves to seasonings to tea. Try these pairings to add a deliciously local twist to your cheese platters:⁠
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- Marinated Morel Mushrooms + Island Brie⁠
- Pickled Fiddleheads + Fromage Frais Herbie⁠
- Wild Mountain Huckleberry Jam + Mt. Moriarty⁠
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If you’re into all things wild + local, you're in for a treat! Explore their goods right here at the farm store, or check out their new storefront in Qualicum Beach. There are so many beautiful products to explore!

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