Autumn Harvest Foraging Walk & Workshop, Nr Abergavenny, S Wales

Sunday, 23 October 2016
13:00 - 18:00

Explore the best of autumn’s wild larder with two of the UK’s leading wild food educators.

Book via Forage Fine foods

Description

October is a great time for fungi, herbs, fruits and seeds in South Wales and this event is designed to make the most of it. Over the course of about 1.5 miles of easy walking over 3 hours you will explore the full range of autumn’s wild larder in the company of two of the UK’s leading wild food educators.

berry and fruit

Learn about:

  • Hedgerow fruits
  • Nuts and Seeds
  • Autumn herbs
  • Medicinal plants and fungi
  • Wild Cocktail making
  • Preservation, fermentation and wild booze techniques
  • Key resources for taking your personal learning forward

There will be wild treats, tipples and tasters to enjoy throughout, and the walk will end with a cook-in of our finds, supplemented by treats and harvests from Liz and Mark’s colossal wild larder. While our main focus will be on autumn plants, seeds and berries, we will not ignore any fungi we come across. This event is designed to compliment this Fungi Day in the same area the day before, and both events can be booked at a discounted rate – see below for details.

Wild fruit leathers

Your hosts, guides and caterers for the day will be Liz Knight of Forage Fine Foods and Mark Williams of Galloway Wild Foods

Liz makes and supplies delightful jars of foraged preserves from her farmhouse on the Welsh border, and is a font of knowledge, enthusiasm and exciting ideas on her foraging walks and workshops. Liz’s passion is infectious and you will leave fully infused with ideas and techniques.

Mark is a full-time wild food educator, working closely with community groups, leading chefs, botanical distillers as well as landowner/conservation organisations such as The National Trust and Scottish Natural Heritage.

Liz Knight

Liz Knight

Meeting place:

Full details will be provided on booking, 2 weeks prior to the event, but plan to be within 20 minutes drive of Abergavenny

Date: Sunday 23nd October 2016

Start time: Arrive in time for a 1pm start

Finish time: Around 5.30pm

Cost: Adults £75 Children aged 12 to 16:  £45. This even is not suitable for children under 12.

Special Offer: If you book both this event and the Fungi Foraging Day on Saturday 22nd October, you can get them both for £120 Adults, £70 Children.

Booking is via Forage Fine Foods – Click Here

Bring: 

Essential: Stout footwear, weather-appropriate clothing, drinking water

Optional: A small basket or cloth bag, notebook, camera, fungi field guide if you have one

Please read the IMPORTANT INFORMATION tab on this page before booking and again before setting off for the event.

Please note: This event is not recommend for children under 12 years old. Sorry, no dogs, no matter how well behaved.

Sloe drinks

 

Please read the following information before booking a Galloway Wild Foods event.


EVENT LOCATION

The general event location is provided in the event description, and in your booking confirmation. This location is usually an approximate location (eg. “Within 30 minutes drive of XXX”), so that you can consider and plan the area you need to get to prior to booking.

For general information on visiting Galloway for events, including recommended accommodation, see here.

Detailed event information, including exact meeting place, will be sent to the email address you provide on booking in the week prior to the event. This allows me to account for the often fickle nature of wild plants and fungi and select the optimum location for our walk – which can be especially important for fungi forays.

It is important that you add mark@gallowaywildfoods.com and markleewilliams@googlemail.com  to your email contacts/whitelist or the information email may get caught in your spam filters. This is extremely important if you have a .hotmail email account as they are notorious for having very sensitive spam filters.

The detailed event information email will be sent in the week before the event – sometimes as little as 3 days prior to the event. There is no need to badger me for it – I will send it! If you haven’t received it by within 3 days of the event, check your spam folders. If it isn’t there drop me an email – mark@gallowaywildfoods.com.


CANCELLATION POLICY

Any cancellation must be sent by email to mark@gallowaywildfoods.com, quoting the event title, date and order number (viewable on your booking confirmation.

Galloway Wild Foods is under no obligation to refund, rebook or reinstate vouchers for no-shows or cancellations within 14 days of the event. If I can refill the place at short notice, I will pay a full refund less 10% to cover admin & PayPal fees, or send a voucher to the full value of the tickets. Please state your preference in your cancellation email.

If you cancel or amend a booking giving 14 days or more notice, you will receive a full refund less 5% to cover Paypal fees, or a Gift Voucher to the full value of your booking.Please state your preference in your cancellation email. Information on using gift vouchers is here.

In the unlikely event that an event is cancelled by GWF you will receive full refund, exchange or voucher.

Galloway Wild Foods is not liable for any travel, accommodation or other costs you might incur if an event has to be cancelled. We recommend that you take out travel insurance if your financial commitment to travel/accommodation is substantial.

The only weather that causes events to be cancelled is dangerous wind. In these instances you will be notified as early as possible.


INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE ON BOOKING

Please provide  the following information for all members of your party in the “Additional Information” box on the payment page :

  • Relevant medical conditions
  • Mobility issues
  • Eating restrictions – differentiating between preferences (e.g. vegetarian), intolerances (e.g. gluten intolerance) and serious allergies (e.g. peanut allergy), and clearly stating if an allergy is potentially life-threatening. All requirements can usually be catered for, but these differentiations are required for risk assessments.

It is your responsibility to provide accurate information about all members of your party. If you write “None” in the additional information box, I will assume all attendees are omnivorous and have no relevant medical conditions or mobility issues.

All information is kept private, securely, and in line with GDPR – more information on this here.


WHAT TO BRING ON A WALK

Please ensure that  all members of your party come suitably dressed for the weather, season and event.

On all walks, for your comfort and safety, walking boots/wellies, waterproofs and spare clothes are necessary. I always recommend wellies for coastal foraging events – you are likely to get wet feet if you don’t have them!

Please bring your own drinking water.

Your learning and enjoyment may also benefit from bringing a camera, notebook, field guide, small basket/cloth bag. Feel free to bring along any of your own wild food preparations to share and talk about.


DOGS

Most GWF events are suitable for one dog on a lead.

Even on walks that are suitable for dogs on leads, because we tend to move very slowly as we learn and forage,  dogs often get bored/agitated/cold by the slow pace. One thing we absolutely can’t have is an unhappy noisy dog on an event.

Where events are suitable for dogs, I restrict it to one per event as there is no way of knowing whether dogs will get on with one another. Dog places are offered on a first-come-first-served basis.

With all this in mind, if  you would like to bring a dog, please note this on the booking form in the “Additional Information” box (along with human dietary, mobility, medical info) and I will get contact you to let you know suitability and availability.

If being able to bring your dog is a deal-breaker for you, please email me before you book.


FURTHER INFORMATION

Further information on Galloway Wild Foods Terms and Conditions can be found here.

If you have specific questions that are not answered here, please contact mark on mark@gallowaywildfoods.com, or if you are running late on the day.

Browse more events forward