Robin Harford Here’s what most foraging courses get wrong.
They teach you identification. Maybe some safety. Then send you home to tick plants off a list.
Or they go the other way. All connection, all presence, all “developing relationship with nature” without giving you the practical knowledge to actually forage.
One without the other leaves you stuck.
Learn only the practical side and you end up with a hobby. Useful, sure. But not transformative.
Focus only on the relational side and you end up vague. Spiritual but ungrounded. All feeling, no embodied knowledge.
You need both.
My foraging courses gives you both.
Eatweeds is the craft of foraging. Safe identification using methods I learned from indigenous groups in South East Asia. How to read contaminated ground. When to harvest without destroying a patch. How to cook, prepare and preserve what you find.
Domei builds kinship with plants. The shift from extracting plants to being in relationship with them. From ticking off species to meeting plants as neighbours. From collecting to belonging.
Together, they change how you see every hedgerow, every patch of “waste ground,” every walk you take.
What you’ll learn.
- Plant identification that keeps you safe and confident
- How to forage sustainably without destroying patches
- Traditional and modern uses of wild plants as food and medicine
- The practice of meeting plants as living presences, not just resources
- How to read the land for contamination and safety
- Your rights, the law, and how to forage responsibly
Why this is different.
We start every course under a tree, talking about what foraging actually is. Not just gathering. Not just identification. But the shift from seeing weeds to seeing neighbours.
Then we walk. And I show you both sides. The practical knowledge that keeps you safe. The relational practice that keeps you connected.
I’ve been teaching this for 15 years. I’ve travelled to Africa, India, SE Asia, Europe and the USA documenting how indigenous cultures work with wild plants. I bring that knowledge home to British hedgerows.
BBC Countryfile lists these courses at the top of their ‘Best foraging courses in the UK’. But honestly, I’m not interested in accolades. I’m interested in teaching you properly.
This IS for you if.
- You want both the practical skills and the deeper relationship
- You’re willing to learn slowly and get muddy
- You value sustainable practice over basket-filling
- You want to actually forage, not just identify
This ISN’T for you if.
- You want a quick checklist of edible plants
- You’re looking for exotic superfoods
- You only want the spiritual connection without the practical knowledge
- You only want the facts without the relationship
What people say.
“Thank you for something immensely more than learning about wild plants you can eat. I much appreciated the first half hour under a tree hearing your philosophy of foraging which absolutely chimed with how I try to be amongst the natural world. I came home aware of a quiet but deep joy.” – Margaret Turner
“I was amazed to find I had spent our time together completely absorbed in the world of wild plants when I have been able to do so little recently without pain and fatigue. I identified completely with your introductory talk relating to stress, the way we live and getting out of all that by being absorbed in the world around us that we just don’t see.” – Prof Peter A. Revell
“I thoroughly enjoyed the course. I truly resonated with everything you said, particularly about getting out of one’s head and into one’s body. Indeed that was my main motivation for joining.” – Cynthia Brown
How much?
- Cost: £65 per person.
- Time: 10am to 12.30pm
- Size: 12 people max.
- Type: Foraging walk (no food provided)
- Where: We meet 20 minutes from central Exeter, easily accessible by bus. Precise location sent after booking.
- No dogs allowed.
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