Step off the path and discover
what's growing all around you!
These small-group guided walks take place around the festival site and last 45 minutes to 1 hour.
They're fully pushchair and wheelchair friendly.
It's a relaxed, eye-opening stroll for all ages where you'll learn how everyday plants and fungi can be edible, medicinal, or even used in skincare. Our expert foragers will even reveal which garden plants you can eat. You'll never look at your surroundings the same way again!
Five walks throughout the day!
Timings subject to change - check on the day.
Tickets are just £10 per person
This includes tasting samples and a recipe card to take home!
Limited spaces – book now and see nature differently!
Tellus Mater
Lizzy Farmer is a writer, wild food forager/educator and home baker based in Northamptonshire. Her work is shaped by a life lived in muddy boots-gathering wild ingredients, baking with the seasons, and making nourishing food from whatever's to hand. From Ferments and jams to quiches and biscuits. She writes with warmth and honesty about wild food, frugal cooking, and the quiet power of nature to support wellbeing.
Lizzy is the founder of Tellus Mater, a nature-led lifestyle brand known for workshops and foraging events and more recently beautifully made linen larder cloths, designed for real kitchens and everyday use. With a degree in history and psychology and as a member of the Association of Foragers, she combines academic insight with practical experience to help bring old ways back into modern life, making foraging and wild food accessible, sustainable, and meaningful for more people. .
Lizzy will be at the following events:
Compton Verney
BOOK TICKETSFred Gillam
Fred Gillam, often known as Fred the Forager, has been foraging for his supper since he was a small child growing up on a country estate in Wiltshire, encouraged by both parents. He is a founder Member of the Forager's Association, and a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, which is devoted to the biology and conservation of plants and fungi.
His life-long passion comes in equal measure for teaching people how to identify and use both as delicious food ingredients and for use in making herbal medicines. Fred is the author of Poisonous Plants in Great Britain. He makes numerous appearances on television and radio, which have included BBC Countryfile with John Craven, ITV's For the Love of Britain, Jeremy Vine and Radio 4's Farming Today.
He is a practicing Clinical Herbalist and runs a community dispensary serving the village where he lives in Wiltshire and the surrounding parishes. He also co-hosts with his partner Natascha the annual UK & Ireland Medicinal Mushrooms Conference. Fred loves to remind people to "remember to eat something wild every day" and takes great joy in simply connecting with nature, through countryside rambles, biking through green lanes, and of course cooking the wild food that he gathers when he gets home for his supper.
Fred will be at the following events:
Dinton Pastures | Lydiard Park
BOOK TICKETSJanine Gerhardt
Janine is a practicing medical Herbalist since 2008 and a member of the National Institute of Medical Herbalists. Wanting to learn more about nature, Janine completed a postgraduate diploma in Ecology and Conservation in 2012.
She loves working with people from all walks of life and age groups and runs medicinal plant & foraging walks, talks, wild food adventures and workshops showing people how to create their own home herbal remedies and wild edibles throughout the seasons. She became a Forest bathing guide working at Kew Gardens and wilder locations and thoroughly enjoys being outdoors, helping people connect with their natural surroundings.
Janine will be at the following events:
West Horsley Place
BOOK TICKETSWhy forage now?
Foraging is making a comeback. The world's top chefs use wild plants to elevate their dishes, and what was once dismissed as a "weed" is now a premium ingredient.
Join one of our walks and you'll be amazed by the useful, delicious, natural plants growing right under your feet — all free to those who know where to look. Our expert foragers also reveal which garden plants are edible too.
Eye-opening. Delicious. Completely natural. Come and see the world differently.
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