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Wild Food Foraging and Preparation Weekend
Woodland Ways Wildfood Foraging and Cooking Weekend
During the afternoon we will then begin finding, collecting and processing wild plants to accompany our evening meal. This will include processing available wild fruits into sauces, jams and jellies.
The evening is spent dining round the fire with your fellow course members.
After a breakfast of damper bread cooked in a Dutch Oven we will continue sourcing and collecting a variety of wild plants and begin processing them. During the morning we will look at wild teas and coffees utilising a range of plants, and we will collect plants to form the basis of our lunch which will again incorporate wild game preparation and different cooking techniques such as plank cooking and grilling. Today we will focus on mammal preparation.
The afternoon will be spent looking at collecting and processing flour from wild plants and at sourcing other carbohydrates. The evening will see further game preparation of a larger mammal and the meal will be cooked in a ground oven.
On Sunday morning we will look at invertebrates as wild food including; insects, molluscs, worms and crustaceans. Throughout the day we will continue to collect and process wild plants. For lunch we will finish the game preparation by looking at fish and further cooking techniques such as ponassing and steaming and we will utilise any wild flour we have made.
The afternoon will be spent collecting fruit from the hedgerow and making products for you to take away at the end of the course.
Throughout the weekend we will include the safety aspects of using wild plants and animals as a food. We will also cover basic animal anatomy and biology, plant identification and food hygiene.
Our courses are designed to be a fun experience and are in no way either military style or "tree huggy”. At no point during the course will you be expected to do anything that you are uncomfortable with. Our helpful and friendly instructors are always on hand with help, advise and assistance.
We are not woodland romantics but practical and realistic. We work in harmony with our changing seasons; adapting our practices throughout the year… for us this is not an optional extra… but a way of life.
The course starts at Midday on the Friday and finishes at 5pm on Sunday afternoon. Vegetarian dishes are also provided if notified in advance.
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