Foraging: what to look out for November/December
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Woods and hedgerows are great places to find wild food and connect with the landscape. Join our seasoned foragers and nutritionists for your guide to sustainable foraging, find out what’s in season and how to eat it.
Wednesday 23rd November 7pm-7.35pm
Our panel:
Juliette Bryant is a leading figure in the field of health transformation. She has travelled the world seeking out and studying the most effective tools and plants for achieving good health and healing. Juliette is keen to get people to see what is the their local environment and how they can work with the gifts of mother nature. Juliette has three published books and written countless articles for magazines, newspapers and journals, all arising from her extensive research into healthy living, wellbeing and nutrition.
She offers her professional services as a Nutritional Health Consultant to individuals and groups within both public and business sectors. Juliette also offers foraging courses as well as sacred sexuality courses. Her dynamic, intuitive and evidenced presentations are well received, enjoyable and noted for the simplicity and accessibility.Her website www.juliettebryant.com features a wealth of original, free content as well as details of her online courses, mentorship work and an extensive range of superfood blends, tonics and supplements – organically produced using plant-based ingredients and sought by customers the world over.
Jon Dale
Jon forages for edible wild foods in the natural habitat where he lives in Cornwall. He runs a veganic project ‘Willow Way’, near Newquay, a place of education, teaching self sufficiency and veganic principles. To help heal the earth and help people to reduce their footprint. Also to help people become engaged with where their food comes from and how it is grown and also to reverse illness through this lifestyle.
Jo Barker
Jo Barker is a Forest Gardener and Permaculturalist. She has been designing, making and eating edible gardens since the last century and is passionate about plants and people.
She founded Future Food Forests CIC in 2021 with a vision to make food forests more accessible and useable for more people. She believes that this connects us to a natural way humans have co-existed on Earth since we began. Foraging in Food Forests is a big part of this, and she believes everywhere is a Food Forest. She has the principle that everything is edible if you know how. Jo holds the unofficial record for ingredients in a UK salad at over 300!
ADDY FERN:- PLANTS FOR A FUTURE
Addy Fern has been involved with Plants For A Future since the beginning, when a 36 acre, extremely exposed and degraded field of bare barley stubble was bought in 1989.
Plants for a Future was set up to demonstrate that we could obtain all our needs from plants, without the need to exploit animals, humans, or the Environment. Since then, the bare barley field has become a beautiful, sheltered piece of Land, where a wide variety of useful trees, shrubs, and mostly perennial herbaceous plants are grown. It is quite enchanting to walk around the Land and see all these amazing trees and other plants, and have tastes of their various edible parts. Addy Fern gives guided tours of the Land, so people have an opportunity to see and taste and experience them. You can also learn a lot by coming to spend some time volunteering.
The aims and ideals of PFAF have since been extended to include:-
* Helping people to re-connect with nature. Our ability to genuinely bring this environmental and climate crisis back from the brink of disaster is through the understanding that we are part of the intricate and delicate web of life on our beautiful Planet that we call Earth.
* The Importance of re-wilding/Re-afforestation.
We have destroyed so much of our native wild habitat, frequently some kind of Forest, that the delicate balance of Nature is seriously at risk. Re-afforestation is vital to try to offset this.
*Food Growing – Growing our food in Harmony with Nature is Vital. This is where Forest gardening and Permaculture come in.
* Plant-based Agriculture is a very important way that we can help to stem the tide of destruction to our Planet, as growing food direct for humans, rather than feeding it to animals first and then eating the animals, saves a lot of land, which can then be returned to woodland.
Addy Fern is in the process of organising the upgrading of facilities at the Land, and also planning to co-run various courses on various aspects of PFAF at the Land in Cornwall.
If you would like to get in touch, you can email pfaf@theferns.info; or phone 01208-873554
You can also see our website pfaf.theferns.info
