SEAL BROOK WOODLAND SCHOOL

This course has been designed to give you an in-depth look into every aspect of using the natural world to your advantage when it comes to surviving, living in the wilderness or just making better use of natures bounty for food and medicine.

 

The course will start by examining the current UK laws relating to foraging and will then go on to study all aspects of keeping yourself and others safe whilst sourcing wild food.

 

We will then go on to examine the edible, medicinal, mechanical and poisonous aspects of both plants and trees, including positive identification features and how to collect and process the useable aspects.

 

The items available to forage depend on the seasons and autumn is the most bountiful season to prepare for the winter. After an initial identification walk around the woods we will start to identify what can made from the items foraged. For lunch you will learn how to make and cook basic breads from different nut and seed flours and this bread will be supplementary to any food you have brought with you.

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After lunch we will use the afternoon to reinforce the learning from the morning and participants will be invited to go foraging on their own and gather items which we can process back in camp into edible and medicinal produce.

 

Venue: Seal Brook Wood, Netherseal, South Derbyshire

Dates:   19th September 2027

Times: 0930 - 1700

Cost: £75

Minimum age: 9 years old (all minors must be accompanied by an adult)