Nottingham Wild Food Foraging Walk/Course

Name: Nottingham Wild Food Foraging Walk/Course
Start: 2026-04-03T12:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-04-03T15:30:00+01:00
Location: Newstead Abbey

Schedule

Fri Apr 03 2026 at 12:00 pm to 03:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Newstead Abbey | Newstead Village, EN

Located on the northern outskirts of the city of Nottingham, Newstead Abbey and grounds is a 300-acre paradise of woodland, parkland, grassland, formal gardens and wetland habitats. At its heart is the ancestral home of Lord Byron, a former Augustinian priory and later grand family home.
The grounds offer an excellent environment to discover and learn bout the wild edible plants and mushrooms growing in the UK.
This foraging course is easy to reach from Nottingham, Mansfield, Newark, Sheffield, Doncaster, Lincoln, Leicester, Chesterfield, Worksop, Retford, Grantham, and Derby.
When we meet up, we will go through laws and safety points of foraging before heading out to discover the wild food in the area.
The course includes (subject to Covid restrictions):
- an overview of foraging laws and safety best practice
- introduction to a number of edible species
- instruction on how to tell edible species apart from poisonous lookalikes
- information on where to find these species again
- recipe ideas
- wild food sample/s such as soup, jam, jelly, pesto, ferments, vinegar or cordial
- digital information sheet after the course.
Age limit
Participants must be aged 18 years or older - no children under 18 or babes in arms allowed on this course
Dogs
Dogs are not allowed to be brought along on this course
Please note, we do not harvest species to take away on our courses.
We cannot guarantee what species will be growing on any given course date. Springtime and summer courses should be predominantly plant focused, with mushrooms sometimes found. Summer courses may also have fruits, flowers and perhaps some mushrooms to learn about. Autumn courses should have more mushrooms than springtime with sometimes a small amount of plants available.