44 Foraging courses

lion's tooth foraging

About Us We are foraging enthusiasts and love all things foraging! We can’t wait to introduce you to one of our foraging courses. We're keen cooks, and love to create new recipes using foraged ingredients. Creating courses through Lion's Tooth Foraging is something that we have wanted to do for a long time, and we are thrilled to be able to introduce people to foraging as a new hobby, and a fun day out! We’re based in West Yorkshire, though we also run Coastal Foraging Courses in North Yorkshire. We think that both locations are a great starting point for your own Yorkshire adventure. Most importantly we care that you have a good time on our courses, and a great experience when you deal with us.

taste the wild - foraging & wood fired cookery

Fun & informative wild food foraging and cookery courses, covering seashore, woodland and fungi foraging, oven building and cooking over fire. Chris and Rose Bax set up Taste the Wild to promote wild foods as exciting ingredients to use in innovative ways. Through fun and informative wild food foraging and cooking courses, participants are encouraged to develop their knowledge of wild ingredients and how they can use them in their cooking, whilst considering sustainability, seasonality and locality.

the family foraging kitchen c.i.c.

Foraging walks and heritage craft courses.FORAGING IS ABOUT MORE THAN SOURCING FOOD AND NOURISHMENT. The Family Foraging Kitchen is a social enterprise dedicated to tackling local food poverty by providing quality and affordable wild food education to the people of Cornwall. As a C.I.C, a percentage of the profit made from our ticketed courses allows us to provide the same educational opportunities to those experiencing food poverty and/or social isolation for free. We believe that all people should have access to wild food education, as well as the confidence to access nutritious, sustainable, local, fresh food. For every walk or course you purchase from The Family Foraging Kitchen – you help to provide a local family the skills to find free food forever. Modern agricultural methods have meant that foraging, once a part of our ancestral daily life, has faded away, replaced by regular family trips to the supermarket. We are becoming more disconnected from the food that we eat. Given the ecological, social, and environmental crises that we now face globally, humanity needs to – rather urgently and radically – examine its relationship with food and how we acquire it. Additionally, we also feel that traditional skills and crafts are in danger of being lost, especially to our children, which is why we also work with a team of local artisans to offer courses that preserve ancestral heritage and traditional skills. Foraging is about more than sourcing food and nourishment. As an activity, it encourages us to get out into the countryside, helping us to cultivate an intimate appreciation of nature, while letting us better understand local history, science, and folklore. It has the potential to bond families, strengthen communities, and re-establish ecological connections severed by modern life. There is also a good deal of fear and misinformation surrounding the use and consumption of wild plants, and we believe that the best way to combat this is to share knowledge, helping communities to understand how their wild environments can be used for good. While our foraging walks, talks, and courses primarily take place across southeast Cornwall and Plymouth, we also have a fixed outdoor education centre for our skilled craft courses, which is based upon the Antony Estate in Sheviock. Here we have an outdoor classroom, covered outdoor work and cookery area, apiary, woodland, orchard, reservoir, and facilities, such a compost toilet – each established in line with our environmental and ethical policies. The facilities on site have been designed and built to accommodate for disabled accessibility. If you are interested in better understanding the environment, come to Cornwall and explore what we have on offer!

amy rankine forager

I am a foraging instructor leading wild food walks and workshops for the past 8 years in the central belt. Through walks, courses and workshops I’m able to help people build skills in identification, beginning their foraging journey. My aim is to use wild food as a platform to help restore our connection with food at its source, through immersion in nature. As more of us return to forging, sustainable practice is at the core of what I do, and an integral part of a mornings’s adventure. As well as identification centred excursions I enjoy delivering workshops and exploring a variety of avenues to incorporate wild food in everyday life.

forage box

Here at Forage Box, we love our wild food. We believe that nature offers us ingredients that are tastier, healthier and more sustainable than anything you could find in a supermarket. We understand that nobody can realistically live off foraged food entirely, so by delivering a selection of ingredients to you in meal-sized portions, we aim to get wild ingredients into your everyday cooking! Wild ingredients can enhance any meal, whether it is blitzing wild garlic to throw into pasta for a rushed weeknight dinner; enjoying freshly-picked British chanterelle mushrooms on toast as part of a lazy Sunday brunch; or stirring a healthy drizzle of rich hawthorn syrup into your morning porridge! There is an entire world of unexplored flavours available to us, and we want to showcase them in their various forms to show you how versatile, interesting and delicious the natural world can be. Each month, we will send you a mixture of ingredients - some which you may have heard of, some which may be a complete surprise - along with a few recipe ideas, which we hope you will use to make regular meals that little bit more special!

devon foraging courses

fergus the forager

Fergus Drennan is a wild food experimentalist and educator, runs regular full day total immersion foraging courses for the general public and privately. He has written regularly on wild food and foraging for BBC Countryfile Magazine, The Ecologist, Country Kitchen, Bushcraft and Survival Skills Magazine, as well as contributing and/or featuring in many other magazines including most national newspapers. 100% Wild food Currently he is researching wild food and foraging in all its multiple aspects as he prepares to spend a year living entirely on what he can forage: The Year-Long 100% Wild Food Experiment., and is raising funds to do this. He is seeking individual contributions and company sponsorship

ashdown forage

Brought up with foraging and wild food in her blood, Iona took a deep dive on the subject in her mid-twenties, and never resurfaced. Iona has worked on surveys and recording projects, taught plant and fungi ID as well as foraging/outdoor food preparation and preservation skills for over a decade now, more recently including demonstrations in fungal microscopy, and her passion for nature extends far beyond foraging for food. However as a chef with experience in both professional kitchens and running her own events catering business, wild food is always where she comes home to, believing that food is a universal and easily accessible way for us to connect and engage with our environment and each other. Whatever your needs, from private courses, to public courses, corporate events, talks, interviews, educational events for both adults and children, and more, Iona is armed with a wealth of knowledge and experience. Equally importantly she has a keen understanding of the other myriad benefits of time spent gathering wild food in your environment, and is excited to open your eyes to all of the incredible beauty and bounty that our British countryside has to offer, through foraging in Sussex and further afield.

healing weeds

I want to share how easy it is to find and use plants growing around us and give you a way to interact with your surroundings. For me, foraging and herbalism have taught me to notice the world as I move through it and allow my busy mind to slow down. I also get really excited thinking about how these wild foods and medicines are so high in nutrients, vitamins and an essence of vitality that doesn’t exist in our supermarket food. I’m keen to share this all with you, get in touch or book on to a walk or workshop to start learning!

live wild cic

Connection Matters Podcast brings together heart centred, nature-connected, curious people who share the enquiry; how can we create a connected and meaningful way of living that brings more health, happiness and growth to our world? Live Wild’s courses and programmes in the woods of North West England invite people of all ages to rediscover the ‘wild nature’ both inside and outside of us. We offer foraging, family days, nature mentoring, forest school, skill shares, nature quests and more, all with wild exploration at their heart. We also run funded programmes with schools and organisations that promote healing and wellness through nature connection.