Foraging, Tracking, and the Hum of the Hive: Our Partnership with Four Season Foraging
Foraging, Tracking, and the Hum of the Hive: Our Partnership with Four Season Foraging
At Honeycomb Cottage MN, nestled within the Regen Homestead in Stillwater, Minnesota, we believe healing starts with the land—and the land has a language. Sometimes, it speaks through the hum of 150,000 bees. Other times, it sings through the whisper of wind in birch leaves, the distant call of a thrush, or the delicate shape of deer tracks in spring mud.
That’s why we’re honored to partner with Maria Wesserle of Four Season Foraging, whose work in wild edible education, animal tracking, and plant ID perfectly complements the apitherapy experiences we offer here on-site. Together, we’re co-creating a regenerative, land-based learning space for all bodies—human, plant, and pollinator.
Who Is Four Season Foraging?
Founded by Maria Wesserle in 2017, Four Season Foraging is one of the Twin Cities’ most respected foraging education programs. With deep roots in Midwestern ecology and a strong ethical foundation, Maria teaches urban and wild foraging, mushroom identification, tracking, and botanical awareness year-round.
Maria holds certification in wild mushroom harvesting, Track & Sign Evaluation through CyberTracker International, and years of lived experience foraging in both rural and urban ecosystems. Her approach weaves botanical knowledge with ecological awareness, empowering people to reconnect with the land around them—ethically, respectfully, and joyfully.
A Living Partnership at the Regen Homestead
We’re proud to host Four Season Foraging’s plant walks and animal tracking intensives right here at the Regen Homestead, the land where Honeycomb Cottage MN is built and operated.
Whether it’s an early spring nettle harvest, a midsummer exploration of edible prairie plants, or a winter tracking workshop following fox trails in the snow, Maria’s classes are rooted right where the bees hum—offering an unmatched sensory immersion into the rhythms of nature.
Our land is wild yet welcoming. It’s where families gather to learn, heal, and remember how to listen to both their bodies and the land.
Where Bee Therapy Meets Foraging Wisdom
While Maria helps people reconnect with the land through their feet, eyes, and mouths, we offer a different but complementary entry point: through vibration, breath, and the nervous system. When you lie above two live beehives at Honeycomb Cottage MN, you don’t just hear the hive—you feel it. The bees communicate in frequency, rhythm, and scent.
That resonance deeply supports nervous system regulation, vagal tone, and emotional recalibration—especially when combined with a morning spent immersed in wild plant identification or following fresh deer tracks under white pines.
This ecosomatic experience—land learning followed by hive healing—is, to our knowledge, unavailable anywhere else in the world.
Shared Values, Shared Land
Both Honeycomb Cottage MN and Four Season Foraging are united by:
Seasonal living: Responding to the shifts in climate, bloom, and animal movement
Regenerative education: Teaching with reciprocity and care for ecological systems
Somatic healing: Whether through the hum of bees or the joy of identifying violet leaves, both practices restore connection to the body
Ethical awareness: Honoring Indigenous teachings, plant sovereignty, and the need for consent in all harvesting and land relationships
This is more than a partnership—it’s a living ecosystem of care, rooted in Stillwater’s soil and buzzing with life.
Come Experience It for Yourself
If you’ve been curious about foraging, animal tracking, or bee therapy, there’s no better way to begin than joining us at the Regen Homestead. Here’s what’s coming:
Seasonal plant walks with Maria Wesserle (Four Season Foraging)
Animal tracking and ecology workshops co-hosted on our land
Apitherapy sessions available before or after—deepening your capacity to rest, integrate, and rewild your nervous system
Book a bee therapy session. Attend a wild food class. Learn the land through scent, sound, and silence.