What’s On
Wild Food & Foraging Walks 2024
Join a foraging walk to meet and learn about the common wild edible plants.
Eat Wild - Foraging Walk Series
A collaboration with Transition Town Totnes
Saturday 16th March, 1pm – 3pm
Location: Central Totnes
Cost: Free for those on low incomes/struggling to afford food
Hedgerow & Woodland Foraging Walk - Sat 23rd March
Location: Dartington Estate
Time: 10.30am – 1pm
Cost: £35
£8 for under 16’s
Hedgerow, Meadow & Woodland Foraging Walk - Sat 6th April
Location: Bovey Tracy
Time: 11am – 1pm
Cost: £35 adults
£8 for under 16’s
Hedgerow & Meadow Foraging Walk - Sat 13th April
Location: Daynes Farm, Harberton
Time: 10.30am – 1pm
Cost: £35
£8 for under 16’s
Estuary & Hedgerow Foraging Walk - Sat 25th May
Location: Near Totnes (within 6 miles)
Time: 1pm – 4pm
Cost: £35 adults
£8 for under 16’s
Estuary & Hedgerow Foraging Walk - Sat 20th July
Location: Near Totnes (within 6 miles)
Time: 10am – 1pm
Cost: £35 adults
Hedgerow & Meadow Foraging Walk - Sat 5th October
Location: Daynes Farm, Harberton
Time: 10.30am – 1pm
Cost: £35
£8 for under 16’s
Hedgerow, Meadow & Woodland Foraging Walk - Sat 2nd November
Location: Bovey Tracy
Time: 11am – 1pm
Cost: £35 adults
£8 for under 16’s
Click here to see booking terms and conditions
Kind Words People Have Said:
“Thank you so very much for a wonderful foraging walk. Your knowledge, presence and ability to weave science and folklore throughout the walk was just a delight.”
Lucy
Longer Courses & Retreats
Forage & Fibres Weekend – 1st & 2nd June
Location: West Town Farm, Ide, Nr Exeter
Time: 10am – 4.30pm both days
Cost: £175 – inclusive of handmade wild refreshments
Give yourself the gift of wild time. A weekend of weaving folklore and wildcraft in the fields and woods of West Town Farm.
Learn the ancient art of foraging and experience skills our ancestors relied upon; harvesting and preparing wild food and fibres for weaving vessels.
Early summer brings a tapestry of woodland and hedgerow species, with an abundance of wild food, medicine and fibres perfect for gathering.
Our home for the weekend has covered fireside spaces (indoor options if its really wild), and handmade wild refreshments are provided.
We’ll spend part of the weekend out exploring & gathering, returning to our cosy with everything needed to process and weave foraging vessels with wild fibres, and dive deeper into connecting with wild food.
Hedgerow Foraging & Basketry Weekend – 19th – 20th October 2023
Location: Near Totnes
Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm both days
Cost: £175, inclusive of handmade wild refreshments
Have you ever wanted to weave a basket straight from the land, and learn how to forage for food & medicine?
Myrtle & Emma warmly invite you to join them for a weekend of foraging for wild food and materials to weave your own unique frame hedgerow gathering basket.
Autumn brings a rich diversity of woodland and hedgerow species, with an abundance of wild food, medicine and materials awaiting our merry band of wildcrafters.
Our cosy outdoor venue nestled in Cuckoo farm is home for the weekend, with covered fireside spaces, and handmade wild refreshments provided.
We’ll spend part of the weekend out exploring & gathering, returning to the warmth of the hearth with everything needed to learn the traditional craft of basketry.
Foraging & Forest Bathing (Forest Therapy) Day Retreat – Saturday 21st September
Location: Cuckoo Farm, near Loddiswell, South Devon
Time: 10am – 4.30pm
Cost: £85 – inclusive of handmade wild refreshments
Bursaries are available, please be in touch for details
Follow the song of the wild to a day amongst plants, just for you.
This course is an invitation to take a pause from busy lives, to come back into connection with yourself, held and supported by wild plants, trees and the ancient practice of foraging.
Interwoven with this you’ll experience Shinrin Yoku, forest bathing or forest therapy, a collection of gentle invitations to allow you relax and deeply engage with your inner and outer nature.
We’ll explore woodland & hedgerows teeming with life, gathering plants and learning about their gifts of food and medicine, and diving into deeper connection with the plant realm.
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Foraging and Forest Bathing Experiences
On an immersive and relaxing experience, you’ll be introduced to the sensory arts of foraging and forest therapy, and experience the restorative power of connecting back with nature through wild food and an embodied connection to the land.
You will be guided through relaxing and gentle ways to become fully present in your surroundings, tuning into the plant and animal world with the senses our ancestors used to thrive and survive, meeting and gathering wild edible plants, with the option of staying to share a picnic at the end of the session.
.This is a dive into seasonal foraging interwoven with forest therapy invitations to help you develop a “wildful” relationship with the land and your own inner nature. These experience are co-led with Emma Capper of Creative Journey’s In Nature. To find our more about Forest Bathing, see Emma’s description of this practice.
More dates coming soon
Location: Dartington Estate