Gloucester Autumn Wild Food Foraging Course/Walk
Sun 20 Oct 2024 12:00 PM - 3:30 PM BST
Huntley Estate, GL17 0NL
Description
The ancient woodland of the privately owned Huntley estate provides a wonderful venue for foraging courses. There is a wonderful mix of trees including British natives and imported trees of commercial and ornamental value.
Located west of Gloucester, the estate offers some wonderful woodland pathways to discover wild plants and mushrooms.
This foraging course walk venue is easy to get to from Cirencester, Cheltenham, Swindon, Gloucester, Hereford, Chepstow, Stroud, Bristol and Bath. When we meet up, we will go through laws and safety points of foraging before heading out to discover the wild food in the area.
The course includes:
- an overview of foraging laws and safety best practice
- explaining sustainable and mindful practice
- exploration of the venue introduction to a number of edible species
- instruction on how to tell edible species apart from poisonous lookalikes
- information on where to find these species again
- recipe ideas
- wild food treats to sample
- digital information sheet sent after the course
Samples of tasty wild food treats could include soups, pestos, salts, pickles, syrups, cordials, jams, jellies, leathers, vinegars, and preserves. All are either 100% plant/fungi-based or have a 100% plant/fungi-based alternative.
Participants must be aged 18 or over - sorry, no children under 18 or babes in arms on this course.
Unfortunately, dogs are not permitted on the course.
Smoking is not permitted once the course has started.
Exact meet-up location and further information sent two days before the course date.
Terms and conditions can be found on www.foragingcoursecompany.co.uk
We cannot guarantee what species will be growing on any given course date - this is the nature of foraging. As a rough guide, springtime and summer courses should be predominantly plant focused, with mushrooms sometimes found. Summer courses may also have fruits and flowers to learn about, with some mushrooms. Autumn courses should be more mushroom-focused than spring or summer courses but this is dependant on weather conditions preceding the course.
We do not harvest on this course. Any picking is for identification purposes only.
Location
Huntley Estate, GL17 0NL