Wild Things: A Year of Wild Food and Medicine
Join community herbalist and foraging tutor, Soraya Bishop for this eight month exploration of wild medicinal and edible plants growing abundantly in and around Edinburgh through the seasons.
About Wild Things: A Year of Wild Food and Medicine
Make 2025 the year that you learn about foraging and medicinal wild plants.
Find out about how to identify, harvest and make medicines for your family and friends from over 40 different plants.
Wild Things will allow you to gain confidence in low impact foraging, beginners botany & ecology, & to develop a sensory approach to using wild plants both as food & medicine. Each month, you will be part of a guided foraging walk with Soraya and also get access to online classes and virtual walks which you can keep coming back to in future years.
This course is about re-connection & about building sustainable, healthful practices through a deepening relationship with our local ecosystems. For this reason the plants that are covered on this course are those that are common & abundant in the Northern British Isles. We have lost our connection to our local bioregions, & with it all of the history & traditions that our landscape & the plants that grow there can offer us.
Saturday March 29th 1.30-3.30pm - Blackford Glen, South Edinburg
Thursday April 17th 6.30-8.30pm - River Almond Walkway, North West Edinburgh
Thursday May 15th 6.30-8.30pm - Lauriston Agroecology Farm, North West Edinburgh
Thursday July 10th 6.30-8.30pm - River Almond Walkway, North West Edinburgh
Thursday August 7th 6.30-8.30pm - Roslin Glen, Midlothian
Thursday September 4th 6.30-8.30pm - Lauriston Agroecology Farm, North West Edinburgh
Saturday October 4th 1.30-3.30pm - Gullane Beach, East Lothian
Not in Edinburgh for those dates? Check out our Glasgow monthly walks and classes on Fridays from 1-7pm. You can also book our 100% online course from anywhere in the UK. For all courses, you will also receive 15 Mystery teas in the post for free.
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