For public walks, the price is £50 per person. Max 10 people per public walk.
For private walks, each half-day walk, on a day of your choice Monday to Friday, costs £150 for up to 4 people.
Then £50 for each additional person up to a maximum of 10 people in total.
Children are welcome from 11 years.
DATES & TIMES
Spring wild food walks will be every Saturday from the first Saturday 3 February 2024
Private Spring wild food walks are available on a day of your choice, Monday to Friday inclusive, February 1st to May 31st 2023.
Please email me with a few dates.
HOW TO BOOK A PLACE
SEAWEED WILD FOOD WALKS
June - Sept 2024
Location to be confirmed
This amazing journey to the edge of the sea, takes us to the hunting grounds for seaweeds that taste like smoky bacon, uumbers and hazelnuts, seaweeds that make energy-giving soups, crisps, pates and delicious puddings, and seaweeds that heal all manner of skin conditions.
You’ll learn how to identify them and how to cook with them, how to make the seaweed medicine and how to make a seaweed spa to have at home.
We'll also hunt along the shore for the ancestors of our garden vegetables, far richer in taste and nourishment than anything planted by Man.
A list of what we gather will be emailed to you after the walk.
COST
For public walks, the price is £50 per person. Max 10 people per public walk.
For private walks, each half-day walk, on a day of your choice Monday to Friday, costs £150 for up to 4 people.
Then £50 for each additional person up to a maximum of 10 people in total.
Children are welcome from 11 years.
DATES & TIMES
Times are linked to the tides and vary for each date
Email me on wildfoodwalks55@gmail.com with the date you'd like and hopefully I can accommodate you.
The times will be linked to the tides, so please be on time. The walks take about 3.5 hours in total, much of that is spent sitting and listening.
WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING
Once we get to the beach, we walk barefoot, very slowly, out over the seaweed. Please bring a walking stick to help you balance. Some people have ignored this advise and found themselves in difficulties which holds up the group and annoys everyone so you will not be allowed to participate unless you have a walking stick - a length of Hazel from the hedge, a broom handle or a curtain pole have all been used, it doesn't have to be one of the new fangled walking sticks from the shops, just something that is sturdy enough to take your weight.
Walking barefoot means that we cause little damage, we see far more than we could if wearing shoes and we absorb the vitamins and minerals of the seaweed through the skin on our feet, it's the most absorbent skin on our bodies. Many people's feet are tender so we walk very slowly so as not to cause harm to ourselves.
If you would like to gather some seaweed to take home, please bring a pair of scissors and a basket or open weave hessian bag - NO plastic bags please, it rots the seaweed and makes a lot of noise. It's also a good idea to bring something to sit on on the seaweedy rocks, a snack and a drink.
Please don't bring a dog because they often eat the seaweed and become hyperactive.
HOW TO BOOK A PLACE
BERRIES, NUTS, ROOTS, LICHEN & FUNGI
September - November 2024
Nr ELY, CAMBRIDGESHIRE
This series of short walks teach you how to find and identify the wild produce of Autumn in order to make a complete meal for the winter.
They also cover new ways of adding the ingredients to everyday cooking without the need for topping and tailing or the adding of sugar.
Picking bright orangey-red berries out of a clear blue sky fills the memory with zinging colour,
knowing which roots to dig up to add nourishment to winter soups, and which nuts to roast for richly comforting winter drinks,
can help you to melt into the woods this Autumn and play your part in Nature instead of bracing yourself against it.
A list of what we find will be emailed to you after the walk and is included in the price.
COST
For public walks, the price is £50 per person. Max 10 people per public walk.
For private walks, each half-day walk, on a day of your choice Monday to Friday, costs £150 for up to 4 people.
Then £50 for each additional person up to a maximum of 10 people in total.
Children are welcome from 11 years.
DATES & TIMES
Public walks are as follows, starting at 10am and finishing at approx 1.30pm:
9 Septmeber
16 September
23 September
30 September
7 October
14 October
21 October
28 October
4 November
11 November
18 November
25 November
For private walks, please email me a date you'd like, Monday to Friday inclusive, in September, October or November.
We can start and finish at a time to suit your group. Please allow 4 hours from start to finish.
HOW TO BOOK A PLACE
JUST FUNGI
BEGINNERS COURSE
NEW for 2023
Due to some people returning to the locations where I've taught them and taking all the mushrooms (despite promising not to), I'm now only prepared to teach others either on their own land, their own local walks, or by bringing a variety of fungus to study to go through them.
BOOKING
Please email me to arrange, wildfoodwalks55@gmail.com. Please give me as much notice as you can if you need to cancel, but I can't offer refunds.
COST
For public walks, the price is £50 per person. Max 10 people per public walk.
For private walks, each half-day walk, on a day of your choice Monday to Friday, costs £150 for up to 4 people.
Then £50 for each additional person up to a maximum of 10 people in total.
Children are welcome from 11 years.