Summer Foraging
2.5-Hour Foraging Walk with Wild Food Tasters
£45pp
This event typically lasts 3 hours
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2.5 - Hour 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 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.
Summer in the UK is an especially generous season. Many of our spring plants are in flower producing wonderful flavours and aromas, fungi are out and there’s always an array of low growing “weeds” that we can explore through their nutritional and historical value.
As we explore we stop at various species of plants, trees and fungi 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.
Location
Hackney may not sound like your typical foraging spot but its an amazing area of diverse habitat including wetlands, grasslands and woodland. Designated as a Metropolitan site of importance for nature conservation we can expect to see bountiful wildlife alongside the high variety of plants and trees.
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.
How the day will run
Arrival time is 1:45pm. The exact location will be in your email after booking.
Walk starts at 2:00pm with a guided tour stopping at various species of plants, trees and fungi.
The walk will finish around 4:30pm. We will then enjoy some wild seasonal 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 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 cashew “cheese” sliders
Homemade ancient grain 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
Nettle or Pine soda
Wisteria flower water tonic
Magnolia petal sushi
Violet jelly mushroom sweets
Elderflower cream “cheesecake”
Sweet woodruff shortbread
Facilities and parking
Parking must be paid for on arrival.
There are both toilets and water filling facilities on site.
Any questions?
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