Learn to forage your own food!
3-Hour Foraging Walk with Wild Food Tasters
£45pp
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3-Hour Spring Foraging Walk with homemade wild tasters and ferments.
£45pp
Under 13s go free.
Learn to forage with Leo,
The Barefoot Forager.
With a background in the performing arts and culinary exploration Leo’s approach to foraging is engaging, fun, and informative.
Teaching you how to identify wild food and educating on the history, science and nutrition of our foraged goods.
Prepare to explore the wild!
🌿 What to expect
Spring brings us an abundance of fresh nutritious greens, edible flowers, trees and even some fungi! It’s a time of year foragers save money on grocery bills.
We start our day with a short meet and greet going over the do’s and don’ts of foraging and the laws that surround it, we’ll then move onto our walk.
As we explore we stop at various species of plants, trees and fungi identify them and discuss their uses; culinary, medicinal, historical, chemical and nutritional profiles.
You will feel and taste wild food as we walk, receiving recipes and science based facts on a case by case basis.
Everyone receives a follow up email after the course covering the key finds of the day.
🌿 Location
Stanmer park is a beautiful open grassland, mixed woodland nature reserve noted for its abundance of plants and fungi.
The name Stanmer is from the Anglo Saxon for ‘Stoney Pond’ and the park has evidence of human habitation during the neolithic period some 6000 years ago!
Much of Leo’s early foraging was done here making it a very special place to teach.
🌿 What to bring
The rain won’t stop us walking! Please check the weather and dress appropriately!
Bring water for the day and snacks if you feel you will need them, there will be tasters but not a full lunch course.
We encourage taking notes but you will receive a follow up email after the course so its not essential.
🌿 How the day will run
Arrival time is 9:45am. The exact location will be in your email after booking.
Walk starts at 10am with a guided tour of our nature reserve stopping at various species of plants, trees and fungi.
The walk finishes around 12:30pm where we will enjoy some wild seasonal tasters and recap our finds for the day allowing a chance to answer any questions you may have.
This event typically lasts 3 hours.
The route will vary day to day but it’s all easy terrain, not climbing any mountains!
🌿 Wild Tasters
These are all foraged and made by Leo.
One of the joys of wild food is how seasonal it is. Tasters change from walk to walk, past menus have included:
Lacto fermented cashew “cheese” sliders
Hawthorn Ketchup and Nettle hummus crackers
Wild Garlic and Nettle tear and share pastries
30 Ingredient salad w/wild rose vinegar dressing
Hedgerow summer rolls
Cleaver's spring tonic
Nettle or Pine soda
Magnolia petal sushi
Violet jelly mushroom sweets
Elderflower cream “cheesecake”
🌿 Facilities and parking
There are both toilets and water filling facilities on site. Parking will need to be paid for on arrival, £3.20 for 4 hours.
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