Give the gift of foraging with a full day seasonal foraging workshop and wild afternoon tea in the stunning South Downs National Park.
Start the day wandering around the South Downs in hedgerows, meadows and woodlands, collecting the edible flowers, plants and fungi that are around during the spring season. Learn about the culinary uses, history and folklore of common UK plants with our expert foragers.
We will then sit down to a delicious afternoon tea feast with sandwiches, pastries, cakes, wild tea blends and delicately floral fizz. Each dish will be carefully curated to showcase the beauty of nature with fragrant flowers, flavourful herbs and choice mushrooms with added foraged ingredients to each dish.
During the course you will be foraging alongside our experts who give a different perspective from their different fields of study. Megan and Guy, the foragers, will give identification, and culinary perspectives to wild food alongside the folklore, history and other uses of each plant. Lucy shares a herbalism point of view to the magic of plant medicine. Tim provides a scientific viewpoint to the plants and fungi, and tells us why some plants are so deadly!
The course will start at 10:30am for a safety talk and overview. We will then head out into the downs, woodlands, hedgerows and meadows to forage for a few hours for seasonal fungi and plants, learning how to identify them from their toxic lookalikes, their properties, edibility, uses and more. Then we will sit down to a wild afternoon tea, made with the plants we will have collected during the morning. The course usually finishes around 2:30pm. A detailed email will be sent to you the next day recapping what we found, recipes for the afternoon tea and information on the wild food we found.
LOCATION: Our courses are based in the South Downs National Park in West Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire. The exact location will be emailed to you 2 days prior.
