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Galloway Wild Foods Gift Vouchers can be used to pay for places on scheduled foraging walks, to pay for private events/tuition, to book online foraging webinars, or to book Online Wild Food Mentoring. You can choose what value to make the voucher.

Whether its a thank you for what’s here already, or an incitement to create more of the same, I’m hugely grateful for any donations that will help maintain and expand this website.

A recorded webinar exploring 20 key fungi species that UK mushrooms foragers and enthusiasts should know. You can buy this product at any time, and can watch as many times as you like.

A recorded webinar exploring the science, behaviours, historical achievements and modern importance of fungi. You can buy this product at any time, and can watch as many times as you like.

Three Webinars providing a thorough grounding in understanding, identifying and connecting with fungi and wild mushrooms. You can buy this product at any time and watch as many times as you like.

A recorded webinar exploring 16 of the UK’s most abundant, accessible, delicious and nutritious seaweeds. Features on location films, cookery demonstrations, advice on drying seaweeds/buying a dehydrator, and lots more.

A guided foray through Cally Woods exploring the delicious, healthy and surprising array of early edible spring plants and fungi. Enjoy a wild cook-in of our finds in the forest afterwards.

Explore Dunbar’s wild larder on a super low spring tide as part of the Dunbar Science Festival. Learn to find, identify, sustainably harvest and cook seaweeds, shellfish, coastal herbs and maritime plants.

The Wild Cocktail Cabinet: Foraged Drinks and Elixirs A short presentation, with tasters, as part of “Bite Size Science and Wild Cocktails” Evening at the Dunbar Science Festival.

A guided foray exploring the delicious, healthy and surprising array of early edible spring plants and fungi. Enjoy a wild cook-in of our finds in the forest afterwards.

Visitor Centre, Mugdock Country Park, Near Milngavie

A guided foray exploring the delicious, healthy and surprising array of early edible spring plants and fungi. Enjoy a wild cook-in of our finds in the forest afterwards, weather permitting.

I'll be guiding short (1hr) forays (£5pp) and doing free wild cookery and wild booze demos at Springfest – The Scottish Food and Drink Festival, on the shores of Loch Lomond.

An introduction to spring foraging on the coast. Over the course of the walk, you will receive expert tuition on how to find, identify, mindfully harvest, preserve, cook and enjoy 30+ wild edibles. Highlights include spoot (razor) clam trapping, seaweeds, coastal succulent plants and maritime herbs.

A guided foray exploring the delicious, healthy and surprising wealth edible spring plants and fungi around the woods, coast and hedgerow of Ardkinglas Estate on Loch Fyne, Argyll. Enjoy a wild cook-in  and foraged cocktail afterwards.

As part of the Cairngorms Nature Festival, and in conjunction with Scotland’s Natural Larder and Scottish Natural Heritage, i’ll be doing two short foraging walks and some wild food demos in and around Ballater, Royal Deeside.

In association with Scottish Natural Heritage and Scotland’s Natural Larder, a guided exploration of the edible spring plants and fungi of an urban park in the heart of Dundee.

Im hooking up again with Galloway’s most luxurious hotel, Knockinaam Lodge, and their chef Tony Pierce – who held a Michelin star for nearly 20 years – on this decadent weekend of fine food and wine that reflect Galloway’s sumptuous wild larder.

A family friendly spring foraging walk around the woods and banks of Lake Windermere.

Adults £25, Children (7-16) £15

A guided meander along the river Kelvin exploring the drinks uses of wild plants, inspiration for foraged cocktails, boozy elixirs and all things wild and tipsy.

A guided forage exploring the fascinating world of wild fungi. Enjoy a wild cook-in of our finds in the forest afterwards.

October is a great time for fungi, fruits and seeds in Northern Scotland and this event is designed to provide a grounding in identification, responsible harvesting, cooking and preservation. Over the course of about 1.5 miles of easy walking over 3 hours we will explore the full range of the wild larder of Scotland’s wild north.

In conjunction with Scottish Natural Heritage and Scotland’s Natural Larder, an exploration of the remarkable wild larder of Argyll’s autumn forest. Over the course of about 1.5 miles of easy walking over 3 hours we will explore the full range of the autumn wild larder in coniferous and deciduous forest and moorland.

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

A guided foray exploring the delicious, healthy and surprising array of edible plants and fungi available in early Spring, with a wild cook-in of our finds in the forest afterwards.

Cally Palace Hotel, Cally Woods, Gatehouse of Fleet, Galloway, SW Scotland. DG7 2DL