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You will have lifetime access - unlimited access to your course for as long as you like. You'll be able to rewatch each lesson as many times as you would like - and dip in and out of each lesson.
Yes! All gift vouchers are redeemable across all of our courses. All you need to do is pass on the voucher code to the recipient and they can then choose which course to apply it to.
The best way to book a foraging course is through our Eventbrite page as we hold a variety of spring, summer and autumn foraging courses in lots of different locations, including in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, and Wiltshire and new dates are updated frequently.
The tickets are e-tickets and you will be contacted before the course with a 'what to bring' list as well as a detailed map and the location.
Today, more than ever, there is a dizzying array of short - term wellness fads that seduce us with promises of dewy skin and boundless energy. Whilst many of us are overwhelmed with distant spices and "super herbs", we have overlooked the abundance of incredible indigenous plants that thrive near us, plants that are not only tasty but can promote healing for ourselves, our families and our communities.
Modern life can sleepwalk us into a cycle of detachment - we're all guilty of constantly checking our phones, scrolling through endless social media posts and spending much of our working life in front of a screen, disconnected, and unfamiliar with much about our local environment beyond road names and local shops. Foraging plants is a powerful way to reconnect with what's around us and it inspires us with a more conscious and mindful consumerism. Foraging takes us back to our roots, our core wisdom and our ancestral heritage - it forces us to slow down and engage our senses, whether you live in an urban, suburban or rural setting.
Wild edibles, abundant in phytonutrients, also add colour and variety to our diets that are often dominated by uninspiring dishes of potatoes, corn and tomatoes. How many times have you had wild garlic pesto or nettle bread for dinner or made elderberry syrup in the winter? Sustainable foraging inspires us to become more resourceful, self - sufficient and, ultimately, better custodians of the environment. It is a tool and a practice that adds richness and depth to the way we connect with life and our own outer and inner landscape, allowing us to attune to our senses, practice deep presence and gratitude and to recognise the interdependence with living things that surround us.
If you're still not convinced, read about ten reasons to forage here.
Many of the plants we shrug off as weeds have fascinating stories and medicinal uses. During your foraging course, you will cover in great detail a variety of different plants (usually between 18 -20 delicious wild plants; or 13- 16 seaweeds) so that by the end of the course you'll be able to confidently identify them and distinguish between lookalikes (including any ones you should avoid).
We'll cover responsible foraging guidelines, how to forage sustainably, and you'll learn about ethical harvesting and a number of preparation methods, from pickling to drying. You'll also learn about some of the medicines our ancestors made good use of, their medicinal properties, and some handy bushcraft tips that will serve you when out and about outdoors, including nettle twine and horse chestnut shampoo.
Nature ebbs and flows. The foraging course will make you more aware of how food fits into the natural living cycle, and equip you with knowledge of the incredible abundance growing around us in all sorts of unlikely places, often lurking just beneath our feet in nondescript fields.
Not only will you learn an essential life skill, discovering diverse wild foods that will awaken muted taste buds and your senses but by the end of the course, you should feel inspired to use these new intriguing foods.
Herbal medicine is a powerful, but gentle modality with a long (millennia) history of use; as a qualified herbalist, I have worked successfully with newborns, children, and the elderly.
When people are sceptical as to whether or not herbs work, I point them to a host of modern pharmaceutical drugs used today that have been derived from plant compounds. Morphine and codeine, for instance, are obtained from the seeds of opium poppy, papaver somniferum, or synthesised in laboratories. A first - line treatment for type 2 diabetes, metformin, is a derivative of guanidine, originally extracted from goat's rue, galega officinalis. Colchine, used to treat gout and Behçet's disease, is derived from autumn crocus, colchicum autumnale, and was mentioned for joint pain as far back as 1500 BCE in Egyptian manuscript. Not to mention that digoxin, a cardiac glycoside, used to treat arrhythmias, is derived from purple foxglove plant, digitalis purpurea.
The list goes on! Herbal medicine is not to be underestimated. I have found herbal medicine and evidence - based natural treatments to have a myriad of different benefits. In clinic , this means:
With over 6 years of clinical experience, I have treated a broad range of different chronic and acute conditions, including:
