Course Information
£180 per person
Friday - Sunday
We are strong advocates of responsible and sustainable foraging techniques and we will show you how to collect your wild edibles in a way that will have little impact on the landscape.
We will also teach you about the legalities of foraging and how, where and when you can forage for food, whilst keeping on the right side of the law.
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Wild Food Weekend Course
Course description
The weekend courses give us the time to delve deeper into the world of foraged foods with more time to spend cooking and creating dishes with wild ingredients. Over the weekend we will be teaching you how to identify edible plants, seeds, nuts, flowers and fungi that grow wild in the British countryside. We will also be sending you out to forage for your dinner and then returning to cook up a storm using both wild foods and ingredients from the store cupboard, all under the watchful eye and guidance of our experts.
The emphasis of the course is very much on using foraged foods to compliment bought ingredients and create new and inspiring flavours and dishes. All the food will be cooked over wood fires, in wood fired ovens or smokers adding an exciting element to all the cooking and developing new cookery skills.
Amongst all the activity there will be time to relax too, the woods are there to be explored, there are books to read and a campfire to sit around.
The second day of the course will be spent learning about preserving techniques to help you keep your foraged foods throughout the year. Depending on the season you might be making jams and jellies, salting mushrooms or making your own Dandelion and Burdock drink. You will definitely be taking away some home-made produce from the Wildfood weekend, as well as a wealth of new knowledge.
This course is designed to give you the confidence to start including wild foraged foods into your day to day diet and to use these fantastic ingredients to produce exciting menus.
Sample menu
Saturday lunch
| Pigeon Kofta kebab |
| Pitta pockets |
| Wild salad |
| Sour cream, Wild Garlic and Corn mint sauce |
Saturday night dinner
| Wild green soup |
| Rabbit loin stuffed with black pudding |
| Steamed Orache |
| Cider slow cooked rabbit leg |
| Seasonal wild greens |
| Melilot oil |
| Sorrel drop scones with gorse flower syrup |
Sunday lunch
| Smoked Nidderdale trout with Wild Horseradish sauce |
| Wild salsa verde |
| Homemade bread from the Earth oven |
| Elderflower fritters |
| Dog daisy fritters |
| Vanilla cream |
Course Schedule
| Wild Food Weekend | 21st October 2011 - 23rd October 2011 |
£160 | Fully booked | |
| Wild food weekend | 27th April 2012 - 29th April 2012 |
£160 | Fully booked | |
| Wild Food Weekend | 25th May 2012 - 27th May 2012 |
£160 | Fully booked | |
| Wild Food Weekend | 13th July 2012 - 15th July 2012 |
£160 | Fully booked | |
| Wild food weekend | 31st August 2012 - 2nd September 2012 |
£160 | Fully booked | |
| Wild Food Weekend | 5th October 2012 - 7th October 2012 |
£160 | Fully booked | |
| Wild food weekend | 26th April 2013 - 28th April 2013 |
£180 | 7 places | Book this course |
