Forage and Field to Fork

Havenhills goes Wild - with Lucy Cooke

The day will start with a welcome chat followed by a walk around the local area where Lucy will search and explain the properties of various wild plants and how they can be used in the kitchen..

After the walk Lucy will lead a workshop demonstrating how to transform your wild food finds so that you can add a little bit of wild into your regular diet, as we now know a more diverse array of plants is great for the microbiome and boosts our health in any number of ways.

We will sit down together for a buffet lunch which will comprise various dishes using the best of the seasonal produce we grow at Havenhills with a touch of the wild about it using locally foraged ingredients.

After lunch there is an optional garden tour of the Havenhills Field.

10am start and welcome drink

10.15 walk with a snack en route

12.15 demonstration workshop

1.15pm lunch (drink included)

2.30pm Garden Tour

Lucy is a foraging teacher and member of the Association of Foragers offering catered experiences, tuition, and wild food consultancy. Her business, The Wild Cooke, is based in Argyll and the Scottish Highlands and she regularly works from her family's base in Shropshire. Lucy believes in restoring a vital, but often lost, connection between people and place. She is extremely interested in how community, food, and culture entwine.