Northamptonshire Foraging Course
About this course
Daventry Country Park carries a Green Flag award and offers a wealth of foraging habitats, including pastureland, woodland, and waterside. It's a great place to learn about edible plants and fungi growing all around us in the UK.
This foraging course walk is easy to reach from Northampton, Kettering, Milton Keynes, Rugby, Bletchley, Banbury, Brackley and Buckingham.
On this walk, you will discover how to identify some commonly growing foods to forage for, how to avoid poisonous lookalikes, and hints on where to look.
When we meet up, we will go through laws and safety points of foraging before heading out to discover the wild food in the area.
The course includes (subject to Covid restrictions):
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an overview of foraging laws and safety best practice
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introduction to a number of edible species
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instruction on how to tell edible species apart from poisonous lookalikes
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information on where to find these species again
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recipe ideas
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wild food sample/s such as soup, jam, jelly, pesto, ferments, vinegar or cordial
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digital information sheet after the course
"A delightful, educating and inspiring talk and walk. It was a door opening on a parallel universe"
Richard
Date
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Cost and duration
£60 per person (inc VAT and fees) - 12pm - 3.30pm
Location
Daventry Country Park, Northamptonshire - exact meeting point emailed two days before course
Terrain
Varying terrain, with some hilly areas, mostly grassland and woodland
Age limit
Participants must be aged 18 years or older - no children under 18 or babes in arms allowed on this course
Dogs
Dogs are not allowed to be brought along on this course
Parking
Car park with small charge
Terms and conditions
Please read our terms and conditions here
Other nearby courses at Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire, Northampton or Warwickshire
Please note, we do not harvest species for removal from site on our courses.
We cannot guarantee what species will be growing on any given course date. Springtime and summer courses are predominantly plant focused, with mushrooms sometimes found depending on seasonal weather. Summer courses should also have fruits and flowers to learn about. Autumn courses are mostly mushroom-focused with a small amount of plants available.
