Description
A guided foray exploring delicious and healthy wild foods of Galloway’s merse (tidal salt marsh), beaches, summer hedgerows and woods. This walk includes lots of foraged tasters and tipples throughout, to illuminate our finds, but does not include a wild food tasting picnic like some of my other events)

A selection of our find from a previous similar foraging walk. ©GallowayWildFoods.com
Summer is high season for the delicious, succulent plants that thrive along the coast. This event is designed to make the most of them, as well as the tasty and aromatic greens and blossoms of maritime woods and hedgerows. Over the course of about 1.5 miles of walking we will explore a wide range of summer wild foods of salt marsh, sandy beach, rocky shore, woods and hedgerows in an exceptionally beautiful area of Galloway.
Novices and experienced foragers looking to increase their repertoire will enjoy this event. The coastal plants we explore are typical of similar habitats elsewhere, and of the most hedgerow and woodland plants are common in similar environments across the UK – so the information you learn is highly transferrable.
Family friendly – 1.5 miles easy walking for all ages. Stout footwear is recommended for the salt marsh part of the walk, which can be muddy. As with all Galloway Wild Foods events, this walk is guided by Mark Williams who has been teaching about foraging for over 25 years.

Succulent coastal spinach. ©GallowayWildFoods.com
Meeting place: Coast near Gatehouse of Fleet, Galloway. Ticket holders will be notified of our exact meeting place in the week before the event.
Expect: Up to 1.5 miles gentle walking, initially on muddy salt marsh, then sandy beach and well made paths, over about 3.5 hours.
Learn: Coastal succulent plants of the salt marsh/merse, and blossoms/herbs of summer woods and hedgerows. We may also explore a few seaweeds, but they will not be our main focus. Finding, identification, poisonous lookalikes, mindful harvesting, expert tips, folklore/tradit

Learn to find, identify, sustainably harvest, cook with and preserve sea sandwort – and taste some of my pickled sea sandwort.
©GallowayWildFoods.com
Please note that this event does not include a wild food picnic like some of my other events. I am trialling this format to help keep the ticket price down. I will still come with a hefty bag of lovingly prepared tasters and tipples to share throughout the walk which serve to illustrate how to use the wild foods we encounter, but if you’d like one of my wild food tasting picnics please book one of my events that specifically mentions that.
This event is fully risk assessed around current Covid 19 situation and guidelines. Please read Galloway Wild Food’s C19 policy here.

Exploring coastal woodland
Bring:
Essential: Wellies or walking boots – the salt marsh can be muddy, weather-appropriate clothing, drinking water
Optional: A small basket or cloth bag, notebook, camera, fungi field guide if you have one
Please note: This event is not recommend this event for children under 8 years old. Sorry, no dogs, unless by prior arrangement.