Autumn wild food walk in Surrey with wild fruit stock making demonstration

A seasonal wild food and medicine walk around a local nature reserve on the outskirts of Greater London Enjoy an interesting and informative walk around a Surrey nature reserve where we'll learn about the remarkable diversity of plant and fungal life present. Using all our senses, we'll identify a wide range of tree, shrub and perennial species (and mushrooms if conditions permit), discuss the culinary and medicinal values or toxicity of our finds and delve into the associated ecology, folklore, literature and law. This walk includes a wild fruit stock making demonstration using fruit foraged from our walk from the follwing species; Blackthorn, Bramble, Elder, Hawthorn, Rowan, Sea Buckthorn, Wild Apple, Wild Pear, Wild Rose. Wild fruit stock is rich in vitamins, minerals and antioxidants and can be consumed as a health tonic, used as a marinade or added to recipes to create next level soups, stews & gravies. Wild food and medicine is all around us. My aim is to introduce you to the abundance on your doorstep, help you seperate out the good, the bad and the ugly and encourage ecological awareness and sustainable foraging. There's also lots of other interesting wildlife to see too! This gentle walk will last around three hours.