Learn about the miracle of greens and wild edibles.

Sergei will be visiting Australia and New Zealand before heading over to Thailand for the Joy for Life Retreat in April.

He will be teaching about greens and his favorite topic, wild edibles. This promises to be an entertaining and informative event with guests being invited to participate in a wild edible walk. You will learn how to identify what local greens you can add to your smoothies and understand their nutritional benefits.

Click here to see Sergei’s tour schedule.

“The Miracle of Greens: how greens and wild edibles can save your life”

Available 1st April 2010: To learn about a special offer for pre-orders please click here

In this dynamic 90-minute workshop, Sergei discusses the incredible health benefits that come from introducing greens into one’s diet. His extensive study of plants along with the latest scientific research makes it fun, easy, and safe to introduce mineral rich wild edibles into your diet. See for yourself how greens and wild edibles can transform the way you feel while simultaneously pleasing your taste buds!

This lecture covers topics such as:

The benefits of eating greens

Easy, delicious ways of incorporating greens into your diet

Overcoming illness with diet

The benefits of eating wild edibles

A virtual wild edible walk where Sergei demonstrates how to safely identify & harvest common wild edibles

While there are countless benefits associated with eating wild foods such as breathing fresh air, exercise, premium nutrition, and food diversity, there are also some risks. When you are harvesting wild plants for food, you are almost guaranteed that the edible plants will be sharing their living space with non-edible ones. These non-edibles may range in toxicity from mild to extreme. If you are like me, then you too would like to avoid any form of poisoning whether it be a mild headache or death. For this reason it is a good idea to first learn how to positively identify the edible plants and then exercise caution when gathering them for food. Doing so will help you to maintain your health and joy for life. In this article, let us look more closely at what defines a poisonous plant as well as some good techniques for properly identifying the edible ones.

Over the last year and a half I have been traveling around the globe giving presentations about edible plants.  From my travels I have learned two things… first, no matter where I go, people eagerly want to know more about weeds and wild edibles! Secondly, there is a lot of confusion about harvesting wild edibles, with people wanting to know how to differentiate between the edible and the poisonous ones.

I have found that the term “poisonous” is very loosely defined and it is easily swayed by personal biases and medical backgrounds. For example, experts coming from backgrounds of toxicology, botany, and medicine claim that there are more poisonous plants than those experts who come from Native American teachings and the like. Unfortunately, these inconsistencies in opinion only add to the confusion about wild edibles as many edible plants are classified “poisonous” simply due to the author’s opinion.

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