Wild Food Walk
Discover natures secret larder On a Slow Food Cornwall
Wild Food Walk
With Marcus Harrison
Foraging expert and founder of the Lostwithiel Wild Food School
at
Port Eliot, St Germans
Saturday 25th March 2006
Walks at 10am and 2pm
Ever eaten nettles? Or even some of the edible thistles? Fancy finding out about food from the wild and preparing a wild food feast for friends and family? Join Slow Food Cornwall along with foraging expert and Wild Food School Founder, Marcus Harrison to learn about the bounty of the hedgerow (without the fear of poisoning yourself).
Lovers of the great outdoors will be inspired and foodies can forage to find a new culinary high with a Slow Food Cornwall guided foray - the best and safest way to enjoy Britain’s astonishing variety of wild foods and fungi. Port Eliot, an area of outstanding natural beauty with many sites of special scientific interest, is sure to provide us with a rich hunting ground.
March is a good time to find wild foods such as Wild Garlic, Garlic Mustard, Watercress, Nettles – and nearer the sea – Sea Kale (a rare delicacy these days) and Sea Beet. Forage leader and wild food expert, Marcus Harrison recommends “Novices looking for wild food should arm themselves with as much knowledge as possible, ideally with a photographic and artist’s illustration book and get to know just a few plants at a time”. From our walk there will be at least four common plants you should be able to recognize: nettles, chickweed, dandelions and thistles.
The wild food bounty found at Port Eliot can be taken home by participants and Slow Food Cornwall will be collecting its own selection to provide new taste and flavour experiences at its second Slow Food Brunch to be held at Port Eliot on Sunday 26th March (sittings at 10am and 12.30pm).
Wild Food Walkers are advised to book early and come prepared: bring sturdy shoes, waterproofs, carrier bag, keen eyes and an open mind!
Editor's Notes
Guidance: consuming wild plants requires a cautiously sensible approach, never eat anything that has not been clearly identified as edible.
Wild Food School website www.countrylovers.co.uk/wfs
Tickets for the guided Slow Food Cornwall `Wild Food Walk’ on the Port Eliot estate, Saturday 26th March are £7.50 members and £10.00 non-members (Places are limited to 15 people per walk).
Launched less than a year ago in Cornwall, Slow Food is an international organisation whose aim is to protect the pleasures of the table from the homogenisation of modern fast food and life. Through a variety of initiatives it develops gastronomic culture, develops taste education, conserves agricultural bio-diversity, and protects traditional foods at risk of extinction.
Tickets for the Brunch are £25 members and £30 non-members, £10 for children from 5 to 12 years old, and free for the under 5’s. You can book tickets or join Slow Food Cornwall by contacting Angie Dodd, Slow Food Cornwall Secretary on 01841 533 066 or email brunch@slowfoodcornwall.com or angie@seriously-good.co.uk |
