Humans have been foraging food as long as we have existed. This has for the most part consisted of collecting naturally occuring green leaves, flowers, berries, nuts, mushrooms and roots. The benefits of collecting and eating wild food are many. Foraged food is healthy, tastes fantastic, and is a joy to collect!  If done correctly it is also ecologically sustainable and is an interactive and immersive experience. When something grows in a natural environment – without being artificially fertilized, watered and weeded – it has to battle for its place in an ecosystem and thus usually produces more micronutrients than farmed produce.  It is typically more potent, restorative and in some cases medicinal.

You will meet other wild food enthusiasts from different walks of life.  In the morning we all gather at 10am, aiming to make a start at 10:20 after meeting each other over a cuppa.  Then I will lead the group on a forage, first within the grounds and then extending into surrounding woodlands, hedgerows and anywhere else we can discover hidden treasures. Once you see just how much is to be found, be sure you will have the foraging bug and those primal instincts will kick in!  You’ll then be surprised, if not astonished, at just how much food is growing all around you and your new found interest in foraging.