A forest buffet 

The old-growth forest in the centre of Fredericton is home to Odell Park and the city’s most interesting foraging tour. Take a medicine walk with Cecelia Brooks, a St. Mary’s First Nation (Sitansisk Wolastoqiyik) Elder, and her son, Anthony Brooks, who run Wabanaki Tree Spirit Tours. They guide you through the forest, teaching the history of local medicinal plants and trees along the way. Afterwards, they prepare wild rice and corn fritters, acorn cookies and three-sisters salad made with ingredients straight from Cecelia’s garden, all enjoyed in the park lodge.

Lobster Tales

Captain Ron starts the Shediac Bay Lobster Tales cruise with a joke and finishes with one too. What at first might seem like your typical three-hour tour is really a lesson in lobster basics; Captain Ron recounts life as a lobster fisher and the best cooking methods. But in between jokes and getting young passengers to clip a lobster claw, he makes time to convey a serious message about the importance of conservation and sustainability to a healthy Atlantic lobster fishery. The pinnacle of the tour is, of course, the food. Guests enjoy supper on board — a whole lobster you just learned to break down, served with potato salad and coleslaw.