Spring Foraging Walk - Stroud

These walks are designed to give you the skills and confidence to bring wild food and wild medicine into your everyday life. The beginning of spring holds lots of fresh spring greens - we'll focus on young leaves and early harvests. 

Foraging is best learned through experience. Like food growing, cooking, preserving, and natural crafts, it has traditionally been an oral practice - knowledge passed from person to person through lived experience.

These walks will focus on plant identification, sustainable foraging practices and practical ways for you to start to include wild food in your life. You’ll learn simple recipes, accessible preservation techniques, and how to prepare everyday kitchen remedies. 

There are plenty of wild edible and medicinal plants growing all around us - you just need to learn how to notice them. Becoming familiar with the plants that grow on your doorstep is an opportunity to develop a deeper relationship with the natural world, even in an urban environment. These walks invite you to slow down and open your perception to the plant world around you.

Together we’ll cover:

• Foraging principles, sustainable practise for people and planet
• Plant identification, including key plant families and how to distinguish plants from poisonous lookalikes
• Recipes for everyday cooking, preserving techniques
• Kitchen Medicine and Herbal Remedies
• Tasting wild food along the walk and using our senses to experience the plant
• Developing our intuition and how to marry the intuitive and the practical
• We will explore what it is when we say a ‘medicinal’ plant, exploring the relationship between food, medicine and plants beyond their physical properties
• All walks include a wild tea and a wild snack

About Good Small Farms: 

An amazing organic farm practising regenerative agriculture in Stroud. Home to a market garden, chickens and beef, agroforestry and fruit tree nursery - Good Small Farms is a local favourite at the farmers market. A beautiful site to offer a walk. We'll be checking out all the weeds in between the veg. 

This walk is run by Charlotte Gordon

Foraging guide, Intuitive Herbalist and Community Grower. There is a curious question when it comes to foraging - we are often asked, ‘what is this good for?’ so Charlotte’s walks go beyond this question to consider the relationship between food and medicine and what happens when we begin to have an intimate relationship with the life cycles of the plants around us.

FAQ

What happens if it's raining?

Walks go ahead in all weather unless there is high wind which makes it dangerous for walks to go ahead. Come dressed for the weather, rain or shine - folk can often feel colder on a foraging walk as we spending lots of time looking at plants.

Are dogs welcome? 

Unfortunately not

Is this suitable for children?

This walks are designed for adults although there are plenty of sensory encounters which make it enticing for children. Children under 12 are welcome for free - please email charliegordon@gmail.com for a children's ticket, places are limited. In general 3 hours can feel quite a lot of concentration for children so bare that in mind.

Will we be gathering or harvesting?

We won't be gathering or harvesting during any foraging walks - we will try and nibble plants along the way and there will be wild tastes to try. We will gather and harvest during Forage and Make workshops.

Can I change my ticket to a different date?

Yes - you can swap your ticket for a different date up to 7 days before the event. 

Where will be meet, should I follow the postcode?

The meeting place will be sent out 7 days before the event - don't follow the postcode for London sites as you will need a specific spot.