Introduction to Foraging - Feel Good Gardens - Adult Learning

About this course

This course aims to introduce the learner to the variety of edible plants that grow wild on and around the Feel Good Gardens site (NG21 9JL), the identification of  common, edible plant species and their uses, including edible, medicinal wildlife and other. The course will also highlight conservation issues associated with foraging and the law behind the protection of our wild flora and fauna.

This course is suitable for beginners and is programmed in partnership with the Greenwood Community Forest Project.

With approximately 1500 wild flowers, described in the Collins guide to wild flowers, it can seem quite daunting to identify them all. 

In order to successfully forage, identification is crucial, and could mean the difference between life and death.

Learn more about the different plant types, their characteristics and uses, today and throughout history, their identification and why wildflowers are important.

By the end of this course you will:

• Be able to identify a minimum of 5 plant groups/ species,
• Have an understanding of  their uses in a variety of applications, including  the kitchen.
• Have an  understanding of conservation issues and the legal framework associated with harvesting wild plants and health and safety issues.

Resources required by Attendees:

You will need clothes suitable for outdoors collecting, including a waterproof  jacket and sturdy shoes / boots. You may wish to bring gloves to protect your hands.

Optional suggested reading - Collins wildflower guide

Food for Free – Richard Mabey

The Wildflower Key – Francis Rose.

Please meet at Feel Good Gardens, Forestry Holdings, Kings Clipstone, NG21 9JL. Forestry Holdings is a private road off the B6030.  If using a Sat Nav, it will take you to Sherwood Pines.  Forestry Holdings is the next turning, between Sherwood Pines and the Dog and Duck Pub, on the same side of the road, please drive slowly; car park turning is after the portacabin.

Booking your place and fee information

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our webpage for further information  https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

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• Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING.
• Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

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To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield 
• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
• Greater London
• Greater Manchester
• Liverpool City Region
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
• Tees Valley
• West of England
• West Midlands
• West Yorkshire

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• By phone: 01623 677 200
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