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Wild Food & Foraging Courses...

Hi. My first wild food and foraging courses of 2024 will be taking place on the weekend of 16th/17th March. I hope you can join me...

Saturday 16th: Birch: Food, Medicine, Magic & Myth. 10am - 2pm. Leeds 

Birch trees were highly respected and held in high-esteem all across the northern hemisphere for millennia, providing our ancestors with a myriad of useful and seasonal resources in both a practical and spiritual sense. This course will explore the multitude of potential resources Birch trees have to offer and hopefully, herald a return to the respectful and intimate relationships we once had with Birch (and wider nature). As a group we will get practical, theoretical and magical with; sap extraction & syrup making, pollen, catkins, edible & medicinal fungi, fire lighting, storage containers, birch tar, withies, habitat, ecology and of course the magic and spirit of Birch. Samples and tasters and a wild spring-time soup are included in the price. 

Adults £50. Children £10 

To book email: edible.leeds@gmail.com 

Sunday 17th: Symbiosis of Spring: Exploring Wild Foods & Medicines. 10am - 3pm. Leeds 

The sap is rising, shoots, herbs and medicines are emerging and the birds are nesting and singing... This course will explore a range of in-season, wild foods and medicines to nourish, heal and cleanse our minds, bodies and souls. Participants will learn: safe identification, cooking and preservation techniques, mindful and sustainable harvesting, seasonality, ecology and the social and natural benefits of rewilding (both the land and the human). A simple and tasty spring-time feast will feature at the end of the course.

Adults £60. Children £10. Family: £100 (2x Adult & 2x Children).

To book email: edible.leeds@gmail.com 

To access details of planned courses for the year (more dates are yet to be added) just click the following link: https://edible-leeds.blogspot.com/p/wild-food-foraging-courses-2024.html


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I'll soon be introducing my seasonal newsletter (4x newsletters) due to becoming extremely disenfranchised with the overbearing, bot-filled, algorithmic b*llshit and increasing censorship of the 'here today, gone tomorrow' social media apps. Each newsletters will feature unique recipes, articles and offers and will only be accessible to those who subscribe (I'm sick and tired of the). If you would like to receive this newsletter, just send me an email expressing your interest and I'll add you to the mailing list.

Best wishes and safe and happy foraging

Craig (Edible Leeds & 4 Wild Seasons)

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