From luscious wild garlic in the spring to fabulous fungi in the autumn, learn how to find abundance in every season with expert landscape ecologist and forager, Adrian Boots. There’s always plenty to find in nature’s larder, if you know what to look for!
Adrian is passionate about wild food and enjoying the fruits of the ‘quiet hunt’. Rather than just teaching a list of wild foods, he enjoys helping people understand the connections between habitat and species so that they develop a more holistic understanding of wild food within the context of the landscape, and our fundamental relationship with food and the natural world.
OPEN WILD FOOD FORAYS 2024
Learn all about the 4 F’s and take a deep dive into what’s in season.
Foliage – Flowers – Fruit – Fungi
Hone your identification skills by focusing on the 3 W’s – What, When and Where, and learn to read the landscape.
Join us for an inspiring day at our private venue on top of the Mendip Hills. Tea/coffee & biscuits on arrival, seasonal wild food foray, a cook up & tasting of our finds, followed by a light foragers lunch.
DATES – Autumn 2024 – Fungi, Fruits & Nuts Foray – Sunday October 20th (FULL); Sunday November 3rd (SPACES AVAILABLE)
DATES – Spring 2025 – Flowers and Leafy greens – dates coming soon
All participants can purchase Adrian’s book ‘Wild Food & Mushroom Foraging – an essential guide for the UK’ at a discounted price on the day.
Book your place by calling 07787 446615 or email [email protected]
ITINERARY (NEW) – previous attendees please note the later end time and BYO packed lunch
Please bring a packed lunch, which we will eat during the foray to enable us to cover more ground. This new format gives more time out foraging so we can cover habitats in more depth and identify and collect a wider selection of edibles!
9.45 Arrival for 10am start, tea/coffee & pastries, Introduction & H&S
Foray across fields, lanes, hedgerows, common land, scrub & woodland, picking, discussing and tasting as we go
Return to base for tea/coffee & cake
Set out our finds, using a wide selection of books to help everyone improve their identification skills, discussion and Q&A
Ends 3pm
PRICES
Adults £65 per person. Under 16’s £35 per person if accompanied by a full paying adult (maximum two under 16’s with one adult). Book on two foray dates for £5 off each – a discounted price of £120 adults or £60 under 16’s. Previous attendees can book at a discounted price of £5 off per person – discounts only available when you book direct, not via Eventbrite or Craft Courses, thank you.
PRIVATE EVENTS 2024-2025
Please contact us for availability. Adrian can tailor an event to suit your interests
whether a family outing, corporate event or presentation.
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Photos from recent forays (thanks to our good friend Seb Rogers)
