Emma Gunn of Never Mind The Burdocks
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Matt Vernon of Cornish Wild Food
Sunday 25th August 2019
2:30pm
Pendower Beach, Veryan, Near Truro
Matt and Emma have joined forces to bring you a unique wild experience. Double the knowledge and double the food!
They are both enthusiastic and passionate about reconnecting people with nature and the wild larder that surrounds us all. Drawing on their many years of wild food, plant and foraging knowledge they will teach you the laws and principles of sustainable foraging, walk you through various habitats teaching how to locate and safely identify a plethora of tasty wild food, whilst also sharing recipe tips and ideas.
Pendower is a perfect spot to explore woodland, hedgerows, and seashore edibles. We will finish on the beach with a variety of foraged nibbles and a delicious cook up over fire of our many finds. There will be an appetizer, starter, a main and a pudding. Probably a wild G&T too! All diets can be catered for, just let us know in advance if you are vegetarian or gluten free.
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Adult Forage & FeastTeenager Forage & FeastChild Forage & FeastTeen: 13-16
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Menu Ideas
Here are some of our menu ideas.
Subject to change as is always the case with wild food.
Subject to change as is always the case with wild food.
Homemade Soft Cheese and Pickles
With homemade crackers and pickled wild greens
Hogweed Frittata
A simple way to showcase the flavour of hogweed.
Fire-Smoked Pilaf
A hearty one-pot main, cooked over fire.
Summer Berry Mess with Mint Sugar
A favourite classic with foraged fruit
Wild Gin & Tonic
or a Wild Mocktail
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Emma GunnEmma has worked at Eden Project for 21 years and has three foraging books published. She has been fascinated by plants since an early age, and particularly edible plants from the age of 14. She has studied plant medicines and trained as a garden designer. Her jobs at Eden range from propagation, draughtsman, guide, skilled horticulturist to seasonal displays supervisor.
Her mission is to educate people in a better understanding of nature, survival and how we can protect nature and ourselves for the future. The more we understand the better equipped we are.
Find the Never Mind the Burdocks series of seasonal foraging books here: nevermindtheburdocks.co.uk/bookshop
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Matt Vernon
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Again Matt has been surrounded by wild food from an early age. Coming from a poor family, they grew their own veg in the garden and foraging for mushrooms and berries was the norm. Later in life Matt returned to his grassroots and passion for the environment to study countryside management at Lackham College. Much of what he learned gets incorporated into his foraging lessons, teaching others how to protect, work and live within natural habitats.
Matt, more recently, had been teaching school kids at Camp Kernow the wonders of wild food. He has been teaching the apprentices at Fifteen for the last few years down at 7th Rise. He also does talks at The Lost Garden's of Heligan, runs workshops at many local festivals, and has had a handful of recipes published in various cook books.
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Pendower Beach
Pendower Beach is on The Roseland Heritage Coast, 9 miles from St Mawes and 13 miles from Truro. It lovely sandy, south facing beach which joins up with Carne Beach at low tide and opens out into one glorious stretch of sand. One side of the beach has many good rock pools, backing the beach there are low soft cliffs and dunes, and there is also a stream running across the beach. Behind the car park is a beautiful woodland walk, which leads up to 16th Century Melinsey Mill. This makes it a perfect foraging spot for variety. Both Pendower and Carne beaches are owned by the National Trust.
Wear sturdy footwear and dress for the weather. Feel free to bring a basket or bag for collecting, notepad, camera, and don't forget a bottle of water. Friendly dogs welcome.