Woodland and Hedgerow Foraging Walk and Wild Food Picnic 1, Glasgow

£40.00£85.00

Sunday, 6 April 2025
13.00 - 17.30

A guided foray exploring the delicious, healthy and surprising range of edible plants around the parks and hedgerows of Glasgow’s West End. Enjoy a wild food picnic, wild flower champagne and foraged tipples afterwards. Gift vouchers available.

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£85.00


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A guided foray exploring the delicious, healthy and surprising range of edible plants around the parks, rivers and hedgerows of Glasgow’s West End. Enjoy a wild food picnic, wild flower champagne and foraged tipples afterwards.

Wild spring greens, shoots and blossoms

April is an exciting time for foragers, with many wild greens, herbs and blossoms appearing. Many of these can be found in cities if you know how and where to look. On this guided walk you will be introduced to a vibrant array of spring  herbs, their traditional and modern uses and how to considerately and safely harvest and use them. We may also meet a few interesting spring fungi, but this is not the main focus of the walk. You will enjoy a wild food tasting picnic and wildcrafted drinks afterwards.

As with all Galloway Wild Foods events, this walk is guided by Mark Williams who has been teaching about foraging for over 30 years, specialising in making foraging fun, accessible and delicious.

“A massive thank you to you for the foraging event. I’ve been on a few forages and this was way the best one. I loved your enthusiasm, your generosity with sharing information, the fact that you gave us food and drink from the moment we started, throughout the event and a wonderful picnic at the end. It really was absolutely delicious. It was absolutely wonderful afternoon, and I felt on quite a high afterwards … I’ve been telling all my friends…”– Danielle, Coastal Foraging Walk attendee

Learn to preserve the flavours of spring

Meet: Glasgow West End. Ticket holders will be emailed detailed instructions of our meeting place in the week before the event. The walk is accessible by public transport.

Expect: Gentle walking on well made paths over 3 hours (maximum 1.5 miles easy walking), followed by a wild food tasting picnic and workshop session. There will be wild treats and tasters to enjoy throughout the walk. Led by Mark Williams of Galloway Wild Foods.

Spring wild foods. Image ©GallowayWildFoods.com

Learn:

  • Spring plants of urban woodland, parks and hedgerows (around 30 species)
  • How to sustainably tap birch and sycamore trees for sap (though the sap rise may be finished by this time of year)
  • Finding, identification, poisonous lookalikes
  • Mindful, considerable and sustainable harvesting
  • Expert foraging tips
  • Folklore/traditional uses of wild plants
  • Modern gourmet and medicinal uses of wild plants
  • Nutrition from wild plants
  • Processing, recipes, cooking tips for a wide range of spring shoots and blossoms.
  • Inevitably, the wider politics around foraging and food will come up too
  • When time and weather allow, we lay out and label our finds to serve as a souvenir and aide-memoire of the afternoon’s discoveries.

Read/watch/listen to reviews/films/radio programmes featuring Mark

Eat/drink: I think it is important to bring the wild foods we encounter to life by not just talking about them, but by eating and drinking them. To this end, I serve a wild food tasting picnic after the walk, and carry a hefty bagful of lovingly prepared treats, tasters and tipples to share during the walk. These are both  delicious and educational, and the walk is more like guided grazing, a gentle imbibing of the landscape, than a route march!  All dietary requirements can be catered for, provided you let me know when you book.

Wild bento box, served on Galloway Wild Foods events. Typically these include 30 to 40 different locally foraged ingredients that illuminate what we have explored on the guided walk. Expect savoury tart, sushi, pickles, ferments, edible flowers, seaweed snacks, salads, wild seed cake and lots more!

 

Bring: Stout footwear, waterproofs, water. Your learning and enjoyment may also benefit from bringing camera, notebook, field guide (plants), small basket/cloth bag. If you make any foraged delights you wish to share with the group, please bring them along!

Places are limited and events usually sell out fast – booking is essential.

If you already have a gift voucher it can be used to pay for this event (in whole or in part) at the checkout.

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