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Foraging expert John Wright, author of three River Cottage Handbooks about foraging, will take you on three, real, forays: along the hedgerow, beside the seashore, and to the fields and woods hunting for mushrooms.

These are, indeed, real forays, with all the hopes, disappointments, limitations of season and joys that we must expect when venturing into the wild for our dinner. They all take place in an autumnal Dorset, but the lessons learned here can be applied to other places and other times.

In John’s trusted and experienced hands, you will learn the basics of identification and understand how to forage successfully, responsibly and safely.

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Foraging and Feasting

Foraging expert John Wright, author of three River Cottage Handbooks about foraging, will take you on three, real, forays: along the hedgerow, beside the seashore, and to the fields and woods hunting for mushrooms.

These are, indeed, real forays, with all the hopes, disappointments, limitations of season and joys that we must expect when venturing into the wild for our dinner. They all take place in an autumnal Dorset, but the lessons learned here can be applied to other places and other times.

In John’s trusted and experienced hands, you will learn the basics of identification and understand how to forage successfully, responsibly and safely.

John Wright has foraged for food all his life. From cockle-hunting and blackberry picking in the 1960’s, via wild mushrooms and seaweeds many years, to collecting flying ants with a butterfly net today, he has seen and eaten most wild foods.

He has written four books on foraging, one on home-brewing and two on natural history. His most recent book, The Forager’s Calendar, won the Guild of Food Writers award for ‘Food Book of the Year 2020’. John has written numerous magazine articles, most of them on the countryside or countryside pursuits.

Foraging and Feasting with Expert Tuition

Even in London, there are plants we can use creatively all around us. Join natural dye expert, Flora on this guided walk, where you'll learn how to identify and harvest natural dye plants, as well as some edible and medicinal plants that grow all around us. She'll share how best to harvest wild plants, and how to spot good places for gathering. This is a wonderful way to explore the green side of London and the secrets of the plants around you!

There's no need to use chemical dyes and washing machines to create colours on fabric when you can use natural foraged materials. Flora creates beautiful colours using nothing but plant based dyes and mordants (fixatives).

Wild Colour Foraging Walk

Foraging for wild food is a delicacy and needs to be done correctly for the consumers safety. Attend a foraging course to learn all about which wild foods are edible and ok for human consumption and which are best left to animals and insects of the wild.