What is Foraging
Foraging is searching for, identifying and collecting natural food resources. These include a wide variety of ingredients dependent on season and location. Most people have foraged without even knowing it. If you’ve picked a blackberry from a bush, you’ve participated in foraging.
It can sometimes be difficult to find out where the food on our plate comes from, even in supermarkets it’s often tricky to learn the source. Aside from the huge environmental benefits foraging has, it’s also a fun and useful practice that encourages a healthy relationship with food.
What to Expect
Experience an expert foraging and wood fired cooking experience in a beautiful location in Oxfordshire. Go on a foraging walk with trained herbalist and forager Justine Gens. Learn to identify and forage plants in the woods and open glades. Gather wood from the woodland floor, light a campfire and cook over an open fire.
Ingredients and recipes will vary according to the season and so far have included foraged mushroom pizza, nettle pesto, wood fired focaccia, pretzels, fresh pasta or salted crepes. This will then be washed down by some warming herbal teas or hot chocolate.
What's Included?
- Foraging Talk
- Foraging for wild food
- Wood fired cooking
- Campfire
- Herbal teas/ hot chocolate
What to Wear
- Warm, waterproof clothes
- Sturdy shoes, boots or wellies
Location
This event takes place in a beautiful woodland in the Goring Heath area in Oxfordshire. Please ignore the post code on your ticket and use this Google pin drop for the exact location of the woodland car park meeting location.
Accommodation
There’s a beautiful village near the woods called Goring on Thames. There are various places to stay there including the lovely hotel on the river called The Swan which also has electric boat and SUP hire for further adventures. Or there’s the equally lovely Pangbourne or Reading which has a more diverse range of places to stay.