Staffordshire Foraging Course

About this foraging course 
 

The extensive Baggeridge Country Park in the south west of Staffordshire, offers meadows, hedgerows, mature and new woodland, and waterways to be explored on a foraging course.

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This foraging course walk venue is easy to get to from Dudley, Kidderminster, Stourbridge, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Telford, West Bromwich, Bromsgrove and Redditch. 

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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.

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The course includes (subject to Covid restrictions):
 

• an overview of foraging laws and safety best practice

• introduction to a number of edible species 

• instruction on how to tell edible species apart from poisonous lookalikes

• information on where to find these species again

• recipe ideas

• wild food sample/s such as soup, jam, jelly, pesto, ferments, vinegar or cordial

• digital information sheet after the course​

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"What a fantastic course. Both group leaders were very approachable and showed a great depth of knowledge. I’d been looking for a fungi focused course for a while and am very glad I found you. Will recommend" 

Ben

Other nearby courses at Ashbourne, Derbyshire; Warwickshire, or Solihull, West Midlands

This is an educational course, there is no harvesting during the course. Samples are picked for identification purposes only.

We cannot guarantee what species will be growing on any given course date - this is the nature of foraging. As a rough guide, springtime and summer courses should be predominantly plant focused, with mushrooms sometimes found. Summer courses may also have fruits and flowers to learn about, with some mushrooms. Autumn courses should be more mushroom-focused than spring or summer courses but this is dependant on weather conditions preceding the course.