​Wild Food Foraging  

The forest floor to the forager is supermarket of opportunity. To our ancestors the option of going to the shop did not exist, relying on their extensive knowledge on wild food would have been lifesaving.

theres more to foraging than gathering! At Into Wilderness we share an insight into preserving smoking , drying , pickling and making wild recipes from ancient cultures.
In our modern society, we just buy it from our nearest shop. Bought out of our hard earned cash, on a weekly basis. However mankind’s pattern of consumerism has had a negative affect, on us and the planet. How?

The knowledge on how to shop in the forest supermarket is being eroded or even lost forever.  Into Wilderness Bushcraft and many other Bushcraft schools promote these wonderful informative courses on wild food and medicines.

¨ To just go pick what you need, is a satisfying feeling. knowledge weighs nothing.¨

Wild Foods & herbal medicines

The courses will take you out in the forests where you will learn how to identify edible wild food through methods that include sensory examinations( smells and taste are especially important to the forager). Equally important are the poisonous species that we will look at in the area. For this reason time will be spent discussing whatever plants, mushrooms and medicines we find. Whichever season you attend, there is always much to find. However Spring, Summer and Autumn are more productive. Applicants are encouraged to take notes, due to the amount of information given. Its not just identification however, the wild foods and herbal plants that we gather will have intricate methods of cooking, preservation and application, such as pickling, drying, smoking and many more... 

we will meet at the given location where we will begin with a brief introduction on what the day will consist of. Soon after that we will head off into the field. On our return we will make a fire and stop for lunch. Here we have a great the opportunity to cook up, the things we’ve collected. Alternatively the woodland cooking weekend course we will construct a simplistic camp in the woods,

Each course will cover a variety of seasonal wild foods from plants trees roots and fungi.


For the course to take place there must be a minimum of 2 people on the course

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