Autumn Foraging and Wild Medicine (EAST SUSSEX)

Autumn Foraging and Wild Medicine

With Alice Rose Betony (@sacred_seeds). Autumn is the time for deep nourishing, building up our stores of nutrients and supporting our immune systems ready for the cold months ahead. Along with the last few wild greens we have such an abundant variety of healing foods and medicines at this time of year. The hedgerows are bursting with berries which are full of wonderful health-giving nutrients that support our immune systems as we come into the colder months. Learn how best to preserve these wild medicines for your own health in easy recipes for tonics as well as food items. In the morning we will fill our baskets with berries, maybe nuts and the last of the wild greens, meeting a wide range of plants, learning some basic botany and plant ID features along the way. In the afternoon we will gather around the fire and turn our harvests into a range of delicious food to share and medicines to take home. On this day we will make an immune-boosting glycerite, a herbal syrup with coconut sugar and many more delicious foods to share.

During our foraging day, we will: Learn how to make some winter herbal remedies with the abundant hedgerow berries available at this time.

Learn how to safely identify and forage Elderberries, hawthorn berries, sloes and rosehips and turn them into food and medicines. You will also learn about the wild seeds and nuts of this season including nettle seeds, Himalayan balsam & plantain seeds and hazelnuts.

We will incorporate all of the above ingredients and maybe some greens if we find any, into delicious food cooked over the fire as well as enjoying some wild teas we've foraged along the way...... you can expect to sample and help make a wild pesto on rice cakes and toasted seed and nut buckwheat pancakes with a wild berry syrup or glaze as well as making medicines to take home. Everything is gluten and dairy-free.

Alice will be sure to also point out any poisonous plants we come across to raise awareness on this topic and speak to issues of sustainable foraging and invasive species. This day is aimed at adults only and a chance for you to drop into a peaceful (child free) space, roaming the land and foraging as a group in a mindful way. There will be plenty of time for questions and further suggestions of resources for your future foraging and wild medicine adventures.

Date: 21st September 2024.
Location: WoWo Campsite, Wapsbourne Manor Farm, Sheffield Park, Uckfield, TN22 3QT.
Time: 10.00 - 15.30

No previous experience needed for any of these workshops.
No dogs allowed please.