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Wild Food Foraging & Cookery

£155.00 – £170.00

Saturday 20th Sept 2025 (Chudleigh)Saturday 20th Sept 2025 (Chudleigh)
Saturday 14th March 2026Saturday 14th March 2026
Saturday 25th April 2026Saturday 25th April 2026
£155.00
Description

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

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Kate Griffiths
A great day!

This day really exceeded our expectations. Colin was a great host - knowledgable and entertaining - and we learned so much on the walk, including that many of the plants we had considered as weeds in our gardens were in fact edible! We were then able to put this into practice in the practical cookery session, in which we received just the right amount of guidance to allow us to experiment but not go too far astray. The day then was then rounded off beautifully by enjoying a glass of wine and the fruits of our labours!
All really interesting and stimulating, and highly recommended.

Thank you, we are so glad that you got so much out of it. Keep foraging!

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Ben Richardson
Great Course!

This was a really well run course, Colin was very knowledgeable and took the time to pass on this knowledge to us all walking us through the beautiful local countryside explaining the various do's and don'ts.
It was great to then spend the time turning the ingredients into food and lovely to sit and eat it together with all the other participants of the course.
The school is very well equipped, tastefully decorated and the contents of Colin's 'larder' provide an inspiration as to where your foraging journey might take you!
Thoroughly Recommended!

We are so pleased that you enjoyed it, hopefully we will see you again soon.

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Paul and Sue Stanton-Harris
Brilliant 🤩🏆

Well, what an experience we had and Colin was such a hospitable host along with his knowledge and easy personable welcoming manner all the way through our fabulous alternative day. Also a big thank you to Tasha from booking a big surprise for my hubby Paul on the quiet 🤫 and assistance during the cooking process afternoon, along with your amazing polite son that cleared up after us all 👏🏻😊 Just also would like to thank Colin for the care and attention with his knowledge of Paul's knee condition walking for any assistance if required. Thank you so much and hopefully we will see you again ☺️

Thank you for your lovely feedback. We are look forward to seeing you again soon.

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Tim Reynolds

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.

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Claudia Cardao
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.