Foraging walks
I have been foraging for food and chocolate flavours for over 40 years, and would love to guide you to meet some of my favourite plants. Walks happen all year around, from early spring through to late autumn.
Check the calendar for any scheduled walks available, but we like to keep groups small, so always happy to respond to queries to run walks at any time.
Identifying plants and fungi
The main focus of our foraging walks is to introduce you to edible plants and fungi, as they become available over the seasons. We will discuss how to properly identify them and how to pick responsibly
How to eat them
Once you have identified and picked your food, what next? does it need to be cooked or processed, and if so how? can it be eaten raw. We will discuss all of this, and at each walk there will always be a snack of some kind showcasing wild edibles in some way
Squirreling wild food
What are the best ways of preserving wild foods for winter or the coming months? We can chat drying, fermenting, salting, pickling, making leathers and more
Scheduled events coming up
Wild Garlic Party
Most of us are really familiar with wild garlic - it is one of the easier and well-known wild ingredients. There are a few look alikes we need to be aware of, a few sustainability issues around gathering - but the main question I am asked is 'what can I do with it?', or 'I make pesto, but what else can I do with it?'
So join me for a wild garlic party - we are going to gather lots of garlic together, and share our favourite recipes and techniques - that will include lacto fermentation, pickling, pestos, garlic salt, garlic oil, drying, freezing, scone making, quiche making and any more that we can come up with!
We will then sit down to a lovely wild garlic themed pot luck lunch, bring your fave recipe (as a dish), I will prepare a few dishes, and we can enjoy some of the foods we have prepared together that morning.
The workshop will take place here in Acharn, at our house. 10am to 2pm; bring a basket, your favourite wild garlic recipe, a wild garlic themed something for the pot-luck lunch, a notepad and pen, or none of those things! Just yourself and ever-ready tastebuds.
