Full Moon Seaweed Camp
at Pie Ranch
June 11-12, 2025
Join Pie Ranch and Healing Tide for a sea-to-farm experience! Discover the different types of seaweed present in our coastal area, learn about their remarkable health advantages, and participate in hands-on activities such as seaweed harvesting, kelp habitat restoration, and seaweed cooking workshops, all led by experienced experts.
Back at the farm, enjoy the opportunity to tour the fields, bake a pie, or just enjoy the scenery (and goats) at this one-of-a-kind coastal experience. We hope you’ll join us!
SCHEDULE:
Weds June 11th:
5pm-6pm Participant arrival
Seaweed Lecture & Conversation
Farm-to-table dinner by Pie Ranch
Campfire
Thurs, June 12
Early morning Seaweed Harvest (5:00am!)
Coffee break, breakfast on the way back to the farm
Back at Pie Ranch, seaweed drying demonstration
Lunch prep with seaweed
Sea-to-farm-to-table Lunch by Tanya from Healing Tide and Pie Ranch Staff
Free time, pie bake or hike (Pie Ranch provides pie bake, farm tour options)
Wrap up & depart before dinner
or some folks stay another night for potluck dinner, camp fire, etc
Fri 6/13 (Optional)
Last participants depart in the morning
REGISTRATION AND COST:
General Admission ticket: $300
Discounted ticket: $275
Supporter ticket: $325
Above & beyond: $350
MOBILITY & SAFETY
This workshop takes place on the land at Pie Ranch. The foraging component takes place at dawn on the rugged shoreline of the peninsula coast, which involves steep areas, slippery rocks, seaweeds, sharp rocks, shells, barnacles, etc along uneven terrain. Participants are responsible for assessing their own physical readiness for the shoreline foraging component.
ABOUT HEALING TIDE
Healing Tide is functional medicine based community healthcare.
We envision a world where access to healthy food, herbal medicine, education, nature, and support ushers transformation internally, community-wide and beyond.
Healing Tide is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that seeks to live in harmony with the Earth, while we explore traveling from a sustainable lens.
Currently, we are focused on producing seaweed wild-tending tours in Northern California.
ABOUT TANYA STILLER:
Tanya Stiller has been teaching for over 25 years as a clinical herbalist, nutrition consultant, gardener, permaculturalist, and ethnobotanist. She received her Botanical Medicine certificate in 1994 from The Oregon School of Herbal Medicine, ran a tincture and lotion-making company called Pixie Plants and has since been teaching herbal and foraging classes in Oregon and the Bay Area.
Tanya attended the University of Oregon and received her Bachelors of Science in Environmental Studies, where her thesis was focused on “The Ethnobotany and Ethnomedicine of the Oregon Native American.”
Tanya is a multi-generational Oregonian, growing up in northeastern Oregon on a small family farm, raising rabbits and sheep, and helping her family with the cherry orchard and farm.
You can find her teaching classes on botany, seaweed harvesting, foraging, and homesteading at Ancestral Apothecary, and many Bay Area Herbal Schools. She currently runs her Functional Medicine Herbal Nutrition and Health Coaching Private Practice; Healing Tide - and previously Tanya worked as a Garden Teacher at the Edible Schoolyard on the Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School campus, and other Bay Area schools for the last 18 years. She lives at an Intentional Community house called Brigid Collective in West Berkeley.
FAQs
What should I expect as far as camping?
Camping will take place in the Pie Ranch meadow. Please bring all your own camping gear. Pie Ranch will have water and portable restrooms available for campers, as well as the outdoor kitchen if you need to cook. If you would like to stay indoors in the Pie Ranch farmhouse for an additional fee, please reach out to nina@pieranch.org.
What meals are provided?
Wednesday night dinner, & Thursday lunch are provided. Please bring your own breakfast and/or dinner for Thursday. Participants are free to use the Pie Ranch outdoor kitchen.
Can I bring my dog?
We love pets but this event is for two-legged folks. We kindly ask you to please leave pets at home.
I signed up. What do I do now?
Thank you for registering! We will reach out in the coming weeks to gather info from each registered participant about dietary restrictions, mobility limitations, and to provide directions and what-to-expect information for the workshop.
Will there be a possibility of a carpool?
Yes! We understand many folks may be coming from the bay area. We can introduce folks coming from similar areas to allow for a possibility of a carpool in the welcome email to registered participants.
What is the terrain like for this experience?
Participants are responsible for assessing their own physical readiness for the shoreline foraging component. We will also be on a working farm, so the ground will be uneven.