Meet Your Guides
Meet Your Guides
Hi and welcome! We’re glad you’re here. A little about us: We live and breathe wild food and medicine and are incredibly passionate about deepening people’s relationships to the plants and fungi we live alongside. We began hosting events together back in 2018 after joining the board of the Western Montana Mycological Association, a community we are still proud to serve today.
Not wanting to be limited to just fungi, we decided it was time to bring our passion for plants to the people as well and started Wild Wanders in May of 2022. Since then, we have been leading foraging walks, teaching wild food and medicine making classes, and hosting events surrounding intuitive plant connection. We also offer curated private excursions and land consultations, foraging services for restaurants & events, and offer many wild foraged products for purchase, including an annual Seasonal Apothecary membership, digital content portals and class pass memberships.
Most recently we have utilized our backgrounds in herbalism and agriculture to break ground on a new medicinal herb garden and native food forest and we both also now serve on the board for the Montana Herbal Festival where we continue to build community surrounding our enormous love of the land. Sign up for our newsletter, subscribe to our calendar, and follow us on IG and FB to stay in the loop!
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Cathryn Raan
Cathryn was lucky enough to grow up in the far corner of Northwestern Montana, building tree forts, picking huckleberries and squishing puffballs. As a child, the forest was her playground and it no doubt still is today. She has been foraging around Missoula since moving here in 2013 and has a profound love for this land. She has a Bachelor's in Environmental Studies with a focus on Sustainable Food & Farming and has attended the Green Path Herb School out of Missoula and the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine out of North Carolina while working as an herbalist for Meadowsweet Herbs. She has served on the Board for the Western Montana Mycological Association since 2018 and on the Board for the Montana Herbal Festival since 2025. She is devoted to building community around all of her various interests and steadily committed to serving her neighbors. In her spare time she hosts a variety of community events at her home and is learning archery and game hunting with a side of rollerskating. Forever a happy student and honored to also be a teacher.
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Sydney Morical
Sydney grew up speaking to the basswood tree in front of her home and animating the lives of flowers that captured her heart. It took many years before these seeds of plant-knowing found the conditions they needed to flourish. It is her life’s joy to resource people in their journey to remembering their relationships with the plants on which our lives and spirits depend. She is an apprentice to the formidable and radical Darla Torrez of Tierra Madre Midwifery and Eclectic Apothecary and life-long student and devotee of the plants. Fierce mama, cultivatrix, song healer, and intuitive, it is her prayer that our offerings help us remember our roles as stewards of this land.
