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Winter 2025/26 Courses and Events

Tickets on Eventbrite or directly via bank transfer

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December 7, 2025

Let's walk through Cammo estate to the West of Edinburgh City and see which edible species of plants and fungi we can find in woods and fields and hedgerows in Scotland in December.. We will in particular focus our wonderrful, forgotten native spices to add a wild twist to your holiday baking and drinking.  Then we'll decorate our own gingerbread houses, build from an ancient wild spiced honey dough, while sampling foraged bakes and drinks..

£50

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Cammo

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January 14, 2026

Wild Food in Winter   10:00 am

Come for a Winter walk on Corstorphine Hill to see which edible plants and mushrooms grow in Edinburgh this time of year.  We'll discuss edible and similar toxic species on a leisurely two-three hour walk, harvesting a few of the edibles along the way, and finish with some tasty and exciting wild food samples.

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£35

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Corstorphine Hill

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January 31, 2026

Fire, Forage, Fermentation
12:00 noon

What could be better than spending a winter day outdoors?

A cup of wild spice mulled wine, Raclette cheese, melted on an open fire and served with artisanal sourdough breads and wild pickles and lactoferments, enjoyed outdoors in the gorgeous surroundings of one of Edinburgh’s most beautiful country parks after a foraging walk and a lesson on fermentation, of course!

Come and join me for an awesome day of foraging, fire making, wild food and fun at Vogries Country Park.

£50​

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Vogries

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December 14,  2025

Come for a Winter walk on Corstorphine Hill to see which edible plants and mushrooms grow in Edinburgh this time of year.  We'll discuss edible and similar toxic species on a leisurely three hour walk, harvesting a few of the edibles along the way and tasting many of our species in a series of delicious and exiting food and drink samples.

£40

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Corstorphine Hill

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January 18, 2026

Fire, Forage, Fermentation
12:00 noon

What could be better than spending a winter day outdoors?

A cup of wild spice mulled wine, Raclette cheese, melted on an open fire and served with artisanal sourdough breads and wild pickles and lactoferments, enjoyed outdoors in the gorgeous surroundings of one of Edinburgh’s most beautiful country parks after a foraging walk and a lesson on fermentation, of course!

Come and join me for an awesome day of foraging, fire making, wild food and fun at Vogries Country Park.

£50

 

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Vogries

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December 19, 2025

Celebrate the beginning of winter with a beautifully seasonal solstice feast, featuring locally foraged flavours..  Taste some  exciting new wild  winter plants, fungi, seaweeds and spices in a seven course tasting menu, including  foraged drinks and paired wines.  Come along  and enjoy good cheer, great company and  the taste of a winter forest while sitting cozily iinside Rising Tide Cafe in Portobello.. 

£60

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Portobello

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January 25, 2026

Wild Winter Sauna
2:30 pm

Join me in a very special outdoor winter experience!

 Come on a  forage along the shoreline in Granton to learn about and collect wild winter edibles and aromatics .

We will taste them in a variety of small dishes and drinks and then use them to make our own Wild Winter Sugar and Spice scrub to take home and  to use i in our thirty minute to one hour sauna session in the new beautiful little wooden woodfired outdoor saunas by SoulWater Sauna in Granton.

We will finish oiur day of wild winter magic with a foraged meal around a cozy fire.

£60

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SoulWaterSauna

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Private Events

Starting at £180

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