Forest for Dinner

Hand-foraged in the wilderness of Vancouver Island using respectful harvesting practices, Forest for Dinner brings small-batch selections of mushrooms, greens, berries, and spices from the forest to the dinner table.

Forest for Dinner is a wildcrafting company founded in 2015 by husband and wife Benjamin Patarin and Célia Auclair. They bring high-quality wild food products harvested from the wilderness of Vancouver Island into the retail space and local food and beverage industry. Their company is built upon a shared love of nature, wild food, and decades of experience foraging all over the world.

At Forest for Dinner, they believe that the delicate and unique wild foods that grow in the vast wildernesses of Vancouver Island deserve to be experienced and tasted by more people. Their vision is to help people reconnect with the bountiful nature surrounding them and improve their food sovereignty. Through education, experience, and flavours, we seek to transmit their passion for foraging and eating wild food.

Forest for Dinner is proactive in finding ways to help make the world a more respectful and caring place—that includes the ways we run our business and create products. We’re always on the lookout to improve our practices and minimize our impact on the land. We harvest in season and are careful to forage only the wild edible species we can sustainably collect. Following strict harvesting protocol, we deeply respect the land and its inhabitants.

Find Forest for Dinner products at forestfordinner.ca

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