Seasonal Wildfood Foraging & Cooking

Course Description

Come and join us for a day of learning about some of the commonly found wild foods available, what the benefits of them are either from a nutritional or medicinal point of view and, where appropriate, turn them in to something tasty.

Subjects Covered

• The Law: What is the UK law regarding foraging of wild plants. We will also work to a foraging 'code of practice' that allows you to harvest but not deplete resources for wildlife and nature.

• Nutrition: how wild plants are frequently highly nutritious and what their health benefits are, also the medicinal properties that we can harness which have been known and used for centuries.

• Reading: we can advise on suitable books to work from to help with plant identification and will have some examples available to look through on the day.

• Campfire Cooking: using the available bounty to produce delicious food and drinks. We will produce a highly nutritious and tasty soup for lunch which will be accompanied by simple campfire breads* and, for those that fancy, some woodland garlic butter freshly ‘churned’ at camp. Once lunch has been tidied we will look at some further culinary treats and drinks along with a simple salve which is good for bites, stings, cuts or just pain dry skin.

• Involvement: a fully hands on day 😊

• Bring: a plate, cutlery and mug, we will provide hot drinks throughout the day.

Notes:

• * there will be gluten free options available.

• Any recipes used on the day will be available for you to take home and use again and again.

• We will be running a course in spring and autumn to make use of the different trees, plants, berries & seeds that each season provides.