A Special Invitation: Wild Food, Wild Medicine Foraging Course In France 2017

Why not escape for eight days and seven nights to a magical place in the heart of beautiful Provence in France?

Somewhere you can completely relax and experience a plant adventure with a difference.

Foraging for plants as food and medicine can be a deep journey into Soul and a gentle way to ‘get out of our heads and come to our senses’.

A way to experience the world and the plant kingdom through ‘new eyes’.

A wondrous journey into wildness that comes from walking the Green Path. Read more…

Going Indian with Sea Beet

I visited my local estuary the other day now devoid of tourists.

The sound of the birds doing their thing that only birds do, the array of deep colours as the estuary falls into its Wintery sleep, the smell of salty air on the breeze and the crashing of the waves in the distance make we feel grateful to be alive.

For me foraging is being fed and nourished not only on what I can fill my belly with, but also on how the very act of gathering and engaging with Land feeds me on what I call a “bone level”. Read more…

Witnessing the last days of the nomadic Moken sea gypsies

For the last few years I have taught on my plant courses about the Moken sea gypsies, and the extraordinary relationship they have with their environment.

Little did I realise that I would ever get the chance to meet them. I had tried back in the Winter of 2015 while visiting Myanmar formerly Burma, but the restrictions on travel by the military government forbade it unless I went with an extremely high end sailing cruise that included a visit to the Moken village on the Mergui Archipelago.

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Episode 11: Nathaniel Hughes On Intuitive Herbalism

Over the years I have bumped into master herbalist Nathaniel Hughes at various gatherings around the country. We never seemed to be able to spend much time together as our paths where literally criss-crossing.

That aside we both recognised that we were on a similar page when it came to meeting and working with plants. Nathaniel coming from a herbalist’s perspective, and myself coming from a forager’s perspective.

So finally, after what must be four years of missing each other, I finally caught up with Nathaniel at his beautiful apothecary at Ruskin Mill, just outside Stroud.

We chatted about all manner of things. Everything from… Read more…

New 2017 foraging course dates… limited availability

I’ve been a bit slack this Autumn.

Not slack in foraging, as I am finishing up some new recipes I will be sharing with you in a few days.

Just slack in posting the dates for my 2017 foraging courses.

I have just put them up, so if you’d like to join me on one of my foraging courses, then I am hitting the road starting in April.

I’ll be visiting London, West Sussex, Oxford, York… as well running courses around my home town of Exeter in Devon. Read more…