30th August 2026 Morning
Adults only Foraging Course – What We Found 🌿
We explored a variety of habitats, from hedgerows and woodland edges to meadow and riverside, discovering a wide range of edible and useful plants.
Plants we identified (with tastings where marked):
- Silver Birch – S-sap, mushroom tincture
- Dandelion (S – cordial, Pickled buds)
- Flowering current
- Honeysuckle
- Walnut
- Elder (S-elderberry cordial, S elderflower infusion) Grow your own mushroom
- Ash (S – pickled keys)
- White Bryony – Poisonous
- Hawthorn (S-fresh S- jam)
- Silver weed
- Linden (S- Flower infusion)
- Angelica (S – candid angelica)
- Stinging Nettles (S – crisp, Kimchi, Seeds)
- White dead nettle
- Pineapple weed
- Broad Plantain
- Cow Parsley
- Bramble (S-Cordial)
- Hogweed (S- chocolates)
- Cherry – compote – which did not work out too well.
- Rose (S Infusion)
- Blackthorn (sloes) – Bullace v Damsons v Cherry plum (S- cherry plum jam, Damson ketchup)
- Rowan (S- flower syrup, Wine-cherry plum and rowan berry)
(S = samples available to taste during the session)
It was a great opportunity to not only learn identification features but also experience flavours directly from the wild, both home made and fresh from the bushes.
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