Here we go! This year Hunter Gather Cook goes from being a blog to a bespoke outdoor experience centered around wild food and cooking. This is not your run-of-the-mill foraging experience: expect off-grid kitchens, underground ovens, hunting & trapping lessons, home brewing and how to use the landscape to your advantage. Not quite bushcraft, not just foraging. After a day spent at the school you will go home laden with goodies you have made yourself from the freshest wild ingredients Sussex has on offer: jarred, potted and bottled and a little closer to being the ultimate 21st century Hunter-gatherer.
The day course covers a huge range of plant Identification, but the focus is on the how you can use them with everyday standard ingredients and add that little bit extra to every meal. Protein is just as important as plants, so you could be cooking anything from squirrels, rabbits and pigeon to perch, chub and pike. This course is extremely hands-on even down to taking apart the animals yourself!
Many of the regular followers of the blog will know all about my days of Tree house dwelling? Essentially, this is what the school is about: creating a comfortable existence and feeling at home in the great outdoors- this is NOT about survival.
The first dates for Spring are available below and all courses are based in Mid-Sussex:
The cost for the day (9am-6pm) is £75.00 per person (max 12 people per group- discounts on group bookings). I do still run exclusive courses and overnighters for a more personal touch (max 3 people).
April:
Saturday 30th April
May:
Wednesday 4th May
Wednesday 11th May- places available
Saturday 14th May: (Wild food Supper club @ the Underground Restaurant- Londinium)
Wednesday 18th May- places available
Saturday 21st May- full
Wednesday 25th May- full
Many more course dates are to be confirmed for Summer and Autumn, do please get in touch if you are interested- Look forward to seeing you out in the woods soon!
Wicked! Well provided I still have a job next month I would be very interested in doing on of these days! xxx
Posted by: The Curious Cat | February 28, 2011 at 04:24 PM
I have been wanting to start foraging for a long time, and I have a sneaky feeling 2011 is going to be the year I start. :)
Posted by: Hugo | March 01, 2011 at 01:29 AM
Why are you so far away ?! Still, if I plan ahead all things might be possible. Fingers crossed.
Posted by: skybluepinkish | March 01, 2011 at 08:37 PM
Nick, if I were on your continent, I'd sign up in a heartbeat!
Posted by: Tamar@StarvingofftheLand | March 03, 2011 at 01:02 PM
nice one nick - where will the underground restaurant in london be - need a kitchen and dinning room. happy to host
t
Posted by: tom | March 10, 2011 at 05:16 AM
Hey Nick,
Just saw your tweet on bramble beer. Are you going to blog it? Would love to hear more about it.
Good luck with your classes. Hope it all works our for you.
Hamish
Australia
Posted by: Hamish Thompson | March 12, 2011 at 02:13 AM
An excellent day / overnighter...
I'd recommend this to anyone, as something new and different, or for the experienced outdoorsman enhancing how wild food is (and should be) put together.
Waking up in an English woodland in late spring added extra magic.
Enthusiastically and competently presented in Nick's own style, many things learned and my own interests in nature, the landscape and outdoors enhanced.
Whilst the rabbit simmered in a pot, the various herbage and leaves were collected from the hedgerows on a scenic country walk.
A great all-day foraging and eating experience.
Cheers... :)
Posted by: Daniel Ackerley | April 29, 2011 at 05:15 PM
lol i gotta say that must be the minimalist kitchen in the world but if it involves rabbit stew then it will do. I have been looking for a supply of rabbit locally but none of are local butcher do rabbit meat so know i have to order off the internet, my hubby love it so we do eat a lot of rabbit. Isn't rabbit on of the healthiest meat as well?
Posted by: Sara swain | June 13, 2011 at 04:12 PM
Hello, I would love to do this with my Mum who loves foraging, she even has a special mushroom knife she takes out with her when she's foraging for mushrooms in the woods!! Can you tell me what the dates for summer are so I book some places as a treat for my Mum? Thanks
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