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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
Each half-day walk, on a day of your choice, costs £150 for up to 4 adults.
Then £35 for each additional adult up to a maximum of 6 adults in total.
Children are welcome from 11 years.
DATES & TIMES
Spring wild food walks are available on a day of your choice, 7 days a week, 10am to 1.30pm, February 1st to May 31st 2022.
Please email me with a few dates and hopefully I can accommodate you.
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 2022
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
Each half-day walk, on a day of your choice, costs £150 for up to 4 adults.
Then £35 for each additional adult up to a maximum of 6 adults in total.
Children are welcome from 11 years.
Please give me 24 hours notice if you need to re-arrange but I can't offer refunds.
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 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.
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 2022
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
Each half-day walk, on a day of your choice, costs £150 for up to 4 adults.
Then £35 for each additional adult up to a maximum of 6 adults in total.
Children are welcome from 11 years.
DATES & TIMES
Start at 10am, finish at about 1.30pm
Please email me a date you'd like in September, October or November.
HOW TO BOOK A PLACE
JUST FUNGI
BEGINNERS COURSE
NEW for 2022
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, and meeting in Staverton, south Devon to go through them.
BOOKING
Please email me to arrange, wildfoodwalks55@gmail.com. Please give me 24 hours notice if you need to re-arrange, but I can't offer refunds.
COST
£150 for up to 4 people, plus travelling costs if I am going to a location of your choise.