This is a 3-part, seasonal hands-on course where we’ll go from foraging our own fruit and cultivating wild yeast to fermenting and bottling our very own plum wine for you to take home!
You’ll leave with a deeper connection to the local urban ecology, hands-on skills in foraging and fermentation, and several bottles of wine to share with friends & family! This will be a guided community process of learning, play and experimentation, with a classroom portion to give everyone a solid foundation, and guided tasting.
You will walk away with the knowledge and confidence to keep fermentation alive in your own kitchen—and inspired to engage with the abundance of wild foods growing all around us.
Your teacher:
Daniel Goldberg is a winemaker, educator & community organizer (Feral Ecology). He crafts natural wines, meads, and ciders at the Richmond Wine Collective. His work centers on wild-foraged ingredients—loquats, wild plums, prickly pear, mushrooms, and plants—gathered from the local woods and urban edges of the Bay Area. A first-generation American of Eastern European Jewish ancestry, Daniel has lived on Ohlone land for the past 12 years. He approaches foraging+fermentation as a container for joy, grief, gratitude, and reconnection—a pathway toward more integral relationships with the earth and one another.
🍷🍇 Workshop Breakdown: 🍷🍑
Session 1 - HARVEST & CRUSH - Sunday July 11 11am-1pm: Plum harvest & crush on-site, learning the tools of the trade and understanding the beginning of the process.
(Break for lunch)
1:30-3pm: Wild winemaking and feral fermentation comprehensive crash course. Dive into the details of this work.
Session 2 - EXTRACTION & TASTING - Thursday July 23, 6:30-9pm Use a fruit press to extract juice from plums and move wine into fermenting vessels. Tasting of Feral Ecology wines + grazing platter of wild foods, ferments & cheeses.
**Session 3 is only open to those who are attending previous classes, this is where folks will be taking their wine home with them.
We highly encourage folks to sign up for the whole series. This is the kind of “teach a person to fish” opportunity that can spark a lifelong practice.
Got Questions?
We’d love to hear from you! Send us an email info@learningbyhand.org
