Forest of Dean Foraging Course

About this course

The woodland of the privately owned Huntley estate, within the Forest of Dean, provides a wonderful venue for foraging courses. There is a wonderful mix of trees including British natives and imported trees of commercial and ornamental value.

Located west of Gloucester, the estate offers some wonderful woodland pathways to discover wild plants and mushrooms.

This foraging course walk venue is easy to get to from Cirencester, Cheltenham, Swindon, Gloucester, Hereford, Chepstow, Stroud, Bristol and Bath.

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):

an overview of foraging laws and safety best practice
explaining sustainable and mindful 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

Other courses nearby at Cirencester, Gloucestershire, Warwickshire or Worcestershire

Please note, we do not harvest species to take away from site. Courses are focussed on education and entertainment.

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.