Wild Food Foraging & Cookery

£155.00

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Forage, Cook, Feast: A Seasonal Adventure at Ground Up Cookery School

Discover the art of creating delicious meals using foraged, seasonal, and local ingredients in the heart of the stunning Devon countryside. This unique two-part course combines the thrill of foraging with the joy of cooking, offering an unforgettable day out.

Morning: Foraging Expedition

Begin your day at Ground Up Cookery School with refreshments before setting off on a guided walk. With our expert guidance, you’ll learn to identify and collect a variety of seasonal treasures—fruit, nuts, leaves, roots, or fungi—to take back to our kitchen. You will taste a whole host of new flavours along the way and learn the basic principles for safe foraging.

Afternoon: Cooking Workshop

Back at the cookery school, it’s time to transform your foraged finds into amazing dishes. You’ll learn practical cooking techniques, delicious recipes, and hone your skills—whether you’re a complete beginner or an experienced cook ready to take on a new challenge.

We will share a meal at the end of the day with a glass of wine to taste the fruits of your labour. With any luck, there will be extras for you to take home—so don’t forget your containers!

Always Fresh, Always Seasonal

Each course reflects the time of year, so no two sessions are ever exactly the same.

Join us to connect with nature, build your cooking confidence, and create something truly special to share with friends and family.

If this is a gift a physical voucher can be purchased for first class post here or second class post here.

If you are unavailable to attend listed dates and would like to be added to a waiting list for future events, please email us and we will let you know when new dates are added.

Schedule of the day

9:30	Arrival and introductions
10:15	Travel to start point (walking or car, max 15 minutes) for walking tour, identifying key species, seasonality and sustainability
12:30	Return to Ground Up Cookery School for refreshments.
13:30	Guests to cook dishes in pairs (2 or 3 recipes per team) using wild ingredients
15:30	Finish dishes and serve and eat together, discuss dishes and ingredients. Q&A.
16:00	Wrap up- handouts for guests containing field guides and recipes.
16:15	Depart

Please note

This course will take place on a variety of terrains. If you have any concerns about accessibility please feel free to contact us to discuss. We have a variety of options available and would very much like to make this course accessible to as many people as possible. We recommend that you wear walking boots or shoes and bring wellingtons and wet weather gear with you just in case.

Please let us know about any dietary requirements when you book this course. We will aim to accommodate.

Testimonials

“I took part in the 22nd June course on Foraging and cooking. This was absolutely incredible experience, you start the day with Colin, who’s experience and knowledge is entertaining, engaging and great to learn from. You quickly find yourself surprised with how easy it is, and where to find and not to find delicious plants and flowers you can use safely in your own kitchen. In the afternoon you get the chance to cook with the things you found in the morning creating with your class the most amazing dishes which you then get to share and try in a lovely lunch in a wonderful location.
Through out the day Colin gives you samples of delightful foraged dishes and inspires you to try this at home.
This was amazing day, and it’s an eye opening experience I highly recommended for people to do. You also get to make a delicious bread and take what is left of your dish home. Great Day and feeling inspired to do more!” D Pike, Facebook

“The most awesome day at #groundupcookery with Colin and Natasha. Fun, informative and best of all tasty. What this man doesn’t know about foraging isn’t worth knowing. Relaxed and informal setting, the day consisted of lots of knowledge, taste sensations and many foraging tips and takeaways. Even a free book to take home. You WONT be disappointed.” A Yendell, Facebook

I had a fabulous day. Colin's knowledge of food, foraging and flavours is incredible. We all cooked our foraged ingredients and shared a meal. The kitchen is beautiful and well equipped. I'll definitely go back to do another course.

We are so glad that you enjoyed yourself and look forward to seeing you next time.

Amazing course, 10/10

Can't wait to do another one - so so knowledgeable, dynamic, funny and great facilities

We are so glad that you had a good day and look forward to seeing you next time.

Foraging course

We had a fantastic time on the foraging course.
We really enjoyed our day and learned loads of good tips. We can wait to come back and attend a fermenting course !

Thank you for your lovely review. We look forward to seeing you next time!

The best experience!

I purchased the Wild Food Foraging and Cookery course for my brothers 40th birthday and it did not disappoint. Colin is amazing and extremely knowledgeable and the kitchen in the countryside was stunning. We will be back to do other courses.

Thank you Laura. We are so pleased that you both had a good day and look forward to welcoming you back.

Superb day

Enjoyed a terrific day in the expert hands of Colin. Exactly as advertised we foraged the hedgerows close to the school, sampling what I’d always ignored as weeds along the way. Some incredible and surprising tastes right there under our noses. Then back to the excellent cookery school for plenty of expert advice and relaxed chatter about a whole bunch of foraging and preservation styles and techniques before each pair created a dish that included a selection of our mornings forage. The whole day concluded with a feast of our works. It’s fair to say the whole day was full of surprises, new finds and overall an outstanding experience. I’m personally planning on sampling more of Colin’s days - a shore line forage is definitely on the cards.