Wild Foods
Course
In Dunsland Cross
Description
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Type
Course
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Location
Dunsland cross
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Start date
Different dates available
Wild Foods - a distance learning course by BSY Learn how to get more in touch with nature and conservation by developing an interest in our ancestors' gatherer lifestyle. Foraging is environmentally friendly and has the large added benefit of being a free source of organic foods that are in season and replete with vital nutrients. This course will equip you to harvest and eat wild foods with information on safe and lawful gathering This encompasses plant identification, harvesting, storage, preparation and recipes.
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Course programme
The course syllabus is structured as follows:
- Lesson One
- Introduction
- Why Forage?
- Safety
- Wild Foods and Survival
- The Law and Wild Food Gathering
- Getting Started
- Equipment
- Mapping and Recording Finds
- Rules for Picking
- Wild Food Groups
- Storage
- Introduction
- Lesson Two
- Commonly Found Wild Foods
- Dandelion
- Nettle
- Oak
- Good King Henry
- Common Poppy
- Heather
- Reedmace
- Fat Hen
- Blackcurrant
- Two Plants to Avoid
- Bracken
- Comfrey
- Commonly Found Wild Foods
- Lesson Three
- Commonly Found Wild Foods (Continued)
- Hawthorn
- Hazel
- Goosegrass or Cleavers
- Ground Elder
- Sweet Cicely
- Yarrow
- Chickweed
- Sweet Chestnut
- Burdock
- Bilberry
- Pig Nut
- Rosebay Willowherb
- Walnut
- Commonly Found Wild Foods (Continued)
- Lesson Four
- Commonly Found Wild Foods (Continued)
- Wild Strawberry
- Rowan
- Fennel
- Black Mustard
- Turnip
- Wild Cherry
- Wild Service Tree
- Ramsons
- Wild Foods in the Arctic
- Foraging on the Seashore
- Shellfish
- Seaweed
- Plant Life
- Commonly Found Wild Foods (Continued)
Additional information
Expenses
There are two ways you can enrol on this course. You can:
- Pay with a deposit of £70 £50, followed by 4 monthly instalments of £25
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- Pay the total course fee in one sum of £170 £150 and also receive a one year NUS Extra discount card1 – free
Wild Foods