Bay Area-based chef, John Farais, will teach us what it means to eat consciously, native and within the season. 

John Farais is a lecturer, cooking instructor, native plant specialist, and food educator, and founder of Indigenous Edibles. Farais has been cooking with ingredients native to The Americas for over 10 years, specializing in the history, taste and promotion of California’s, and The Americas’ indigenous, edible plants. He makes his own Acorn flour and forages for Mesquite, Bay nuts, Elderberries, Madrone berries, Nettles and Manzanita berries along with many other native plants. Farais has cooked for Carlo Petrini, the creator of Slow Food International, Actor Peter Coyote, Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey, The California Indian Conference and Heyday Books. He has lectured for Slow Food, The Oakland Museum, San Francisco State University, College of Marin, UC Berkeley and California Native Garden Foundation. 

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