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The wild foods of Spring raise your metabolism, strip the body of cholesterol and clean your blood. They give you vitality and a feeling of being positive and clear headed. They have amazingly fiery flavours, waking us up after the winter hibernation.
A colour, illustrated notebook is included in the price.
COST
DATES & TIMES
Start at 10am, finish by 1pm
February 1, 8, 15, 29
March 7,14, 21, 28,
April 4, 11, 18, 25
May 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
HOW TO BOOK A PLACE
Once the payment has been made, you'll receive an email of exactly where we meet and what to bring.
SEAWEED WILD FOOD WALKS
June - September 2020
The garden between the worlds. East Prawle, Devon. Lifts can be arranged from Totnes train station.
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 colour illustrated booklet is included in the price showing all that we find.
Please note: this walk begins and ends with a steep, footpath walk down to the sea.
COST
DATES & TIMES
6 June meeting at 12pm, children welcome
20 June meeting at 10.30am, just adults
4 July meeting at 10.30am, children welcome
18 July meeting at 10am, just adults
1 August meeting at 10am, children welcome
8 August meeting at 2pm, just adults
22 August meeting at 2pm, children welcome
The times are linked to the tides, so please be aware that if you're late we can't wait for you! The roads down to East Prawle can take longer than expected, so please allow plenty of time. Estimated time from Totnes is 1 hour. The walks take about 3.5 hours in total, much of that is spent sitting and listening.
Lift shares can be arranged.
WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING
Once we get to the beach, we walk barefoot 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.
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 2020
Buckfast, south Dartmoor.
This short walk along the bank of the River Dart through beautiful, wild country, teaches you how to find and identify the wild produce of Autumn in order to make a complete meal for the winter. It also covers 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 colour illustrated booklet is included in the price.
COST
Adults £35, Children 11-18yrs £17.50. £5 for children under 11.
10% discount for group bookings of 5 or more adults if booking at the same time.
DATES & TIMES
Start at 10am, finish at about 1.30pm
5 September
HOW TO BOOK A PLACE
JUST FUNGI
BEGINNERS COURSE
Unfortunately I have had to withdraw this course as too many people were returning to the locations I'd shown them despite promising not to and gathering so there was nothing left.