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Foraging Courses

Edible Seashore Photos

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Last Saturday Fraser Christian & I ran a wildly successful Edible Seashore course. Click here to look at some of the photos.

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Simple Living Weekend: 2nd-4th July 2010

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“We should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for its own sake, now, and not in preparation for an imaginary future. It’s obvious that the mirth-filled man, the cheerful soul, the childish adult is the one who has least to fear from life.” Tom Hodgkinson – The Freedom Manifesto

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Edible Seashore – Saturday, 26th June 2010

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I am co-running this course with Fraser Christian. Fraser is a master fisherman and wild food chef, who used to run Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall’s ‘Introduction to Fish Skills & Cookery’ course over at River Cottage. Yes he’s that good.

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Wild Food Lunch Slideshow

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Last Sunday I taught a wonderful group of people at Combe Farm, Axmouth, Devon. It was a scorcher of a day, and we spent a leisurely three hours walking, talking and gathering. Then back to the kitchen we went to prepare an array of wild dishes. Below is a video slideshow of the day… enjoy!

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Nature’s Larder Wild Food Forage & Meal

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Just got back from a wonderful day teaching foraging and preparing a community feast. Below are some photos, unfortunately (duh!), I forgot to actually take photos of the meal itself. That being said here’s what we had…

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Wild Food Talk

I am giving a 45 minute talk to the Sid Vale Association on Wednesday, 24th February 2010. Details of the wild food talk can be found here.

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Wild Edible Mushroom Forage Photos

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This morning a group of us went on a Wild Edible Mushroom Forage in Sidmouth. Unfortunately due to the dry, hot weather conditions recently (which mushrooms don’t like) we didn’t find that many edible mushrooms, mainly Porcelain Fungus and Winter Chanterrelles. But a good time was had by all and everyone learned lots.

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Forage & Wild Food Lunch Photos

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Yesterday I ran a Forage & Wild Food Lunch at the Spiral Centre, Axmouth, Nr. Seaton, Devon.

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Let Them Eat Weeds

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A short interview I did with Carl Munson of New Exeter Radio Show where I discuss my personal philosophy of foraging, and how eating wild food can awaken your body to a deeper appreciation of the Natural World and our place in it. 

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