Autumn Foraging
Mushrooms and Plants
2.5-Hour Foraging Walk with Wild Food Tasters
£45pp
This event typically lasts 3 hours
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Please select ticket quantity first, then proceed to ‘book’, dietary forms open upon booking.
2.5 - Hour foraging walk with homemade wild tasters and ferments
£45pp
Under 13s go free.
Learn to forage with Leo,
The Barefoot Forager.
As a wild food researcher with a background in the performing arts 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 wild world.
Prepare to explore the wild!
What to expect
A 2.5 hour foraging walk followed by seasonal wild food tasters, examples of menus are further down the page.
Autumn in the UK is an especially generous season. Mushroom season is in full swing and many plants begin to get a second spring flush. On the walk we will stop at various species of plants, trees and fungi and discuss their uses; culinary, medicinal, historical, chemical and nutritional profiles.
Location
Wild Weald Wood is an 85-acre private and semi-ancient woodland. It’s an idyllic historic site shaped by Roman potteries, medieval iron work and centuries of rural craft.
With a wide diversity of tree and fungi species it grants us an ideal location for mushroom hunting!
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 using either your phone or a notepad!
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 will finish around 12:30pm. We will then enjoy some seasonal wild tasters and recap our finds for the day allowing a chance to answer any questions you may have.
The route will vary day to day but it’s all fairly easy terrain, if you have mobility issues please contact us.
This event typically lasts 3 hours.
Wild Tasters
These are all foraged, fermented and hand-made by Leo.
One of the joys of wild food is how seasonal it is. Tasters change from course to course, past menus have included:
Lacto fermented hogweed cashew cream
Homemade ancient grain artisan bread
Wild garlic and cow parsley pickled chimmichuri
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
Naturally sparkling and fermented wild sodas.
Wisteria flower water tonic
Magnolia petal sushi
Violet jelly mushroom sweets
Elderflower cream “cheesecake”
Hand foraged sweet woodruff shortbread
Facilities and parking
There are both toilets and water filling facilities on site. Parking is free, this location is best accessed by a car.
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