Suitable for: Adults, Beginners

Considerations: Outdoors based

What to wear: Sturdy shoes, outdoor/wet weather gear

What to bring: Notebook and pen for taking notes

Time: 10am - 3pm (approx)

Refreshments: Tea, coffee and biscuits will be available throughout the day. Lunch will be prepared with the group using foraged ingredients. Please advise us of any dietary requirements. 

The course:

Woodlands are abundant with wild food at this time of year! This one day course is designed to teach you how to identify, harvest and make meals with some of these wonderful plants and fungi.

After a meet and greet, you will be taken on a guided walk to explore the grass verges and broadleaf woodlands around the Green Wood Centre. You will be shown between 15 – 25 different species and to test your new found skills, forage for ingredients to make a shared lunch, which you can also help to prep and cook outdoors.

Reap the benefits of this immersive, communal experience in nature, and find out how to eat well from your woodland!

You will learn:

- culinary, medicinal and crafting uses

- how to safely id edible different plants and mushrooms

- sustainable, respectful harvesting techniques

- wild recipes

Your tutor:

Sam Webster discovered her passion for foraging as a child, picking blackberries and damsons to make jam with her Nana. She eventually gave up a career teaching PE and food tech in secondary school to be a feral wildling, and became a professional forager in 2017.

Sam’s favourite season to forage is autumn, as hunting for fungi is the most rewarding, but she also loves coastal foraging and enjoys nibbling on spring greens. 

In the spring of 2025, Sam took part in the Wildbiome project for 3 months, living off wild foraged food, and describes this as an 'amazing, life changing experience, living off what nature has to offer.'  She runs her own business, Foraging ForAges and is the organiser of the British Wild Food Festival.

"I have always carried on the tradition of gathering fruits late summer and autumn. When I had my first child, I often went out with her strapped to my front, a rucksack full of wild apples, plums and pears on my back and a basket of blackberries and raspberries in my hands. 

In 2012 my husband bought me a foraging day so I could learn more about wild food… I can honestly say I'll never forget that day, something inside me turned on and I've not been able to turn it off for a single second since.

In 2017 I started my running foraging events and it has become my career. It's the best job in the world, I get to talk about plants, mushrooms and nature all day long!"