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
Child: 6-12 Event limited to 20 spaces |
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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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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