Your presenters this year are respected experts in their field and between them have decades of experience to share with you.
The confirmed presenters so far include:
Gav Forager - Host & London National Park City Ranger at Found Food & London National Park City
A forager, foraging teacher, student herbalist, and London National Park City ranger; Somehow Gav also finds the time to hold down a day job a an author, and practice making forage-based booze.
Gav is on Instagram as Gav Forager
Twitter as Found Food
Facebook as Found Food
Website foundfood.com
Courses with Found Food
Mike Intrepid Forager - Foraging Guide & London National Park City Ranger
Mike leads guided foraging walks and is an advocate for using wild food to connect us with nature and human traditions. He is a Ranger with London National Park City and founder of the London Fungus Network.
Mike is on Instagram as intrepidforager
Facebook as intrepidforager
Hannah Walker - Registered Dietitian and Foraging Teacher at Totally Wild UK
Registered dietitian and plant-based cooking teacher with a passion for helping people to optimise both their health and happiness though good food. Currently specialising as a paediatric dietitian working in the NHS but slightly unconventionally, wherever possible/appropriate trying to get patients and their parents to realise the wonders and nutritional benefits of wild edibles! Proud to lead foraging and wild food cookery courses for Totally Wild UK where she tries to get even more people as excited as her about nettles and dandelions!
Hannah is on Instagram as: rosehipsandrocket
Courses with Totally Wild UK
Kim Walker, Plant Researcher and Medicinal Herbalist at Handmade Apothecary
Kim Walker researches the history of plant medicines. She is also a trained medical herbalist, author and founder of Handmade Apothecary
Kim can be found on Instagram at: handmade_apothecary
Website Handmade Apothecary
Rachel Lambert - Foraging Guide, Author and Singer at Wild Walks Southwest
Rachel is a foraging guide, award-winning author, recipe creator and singing forager! She’s been teaching people about wild food since 2007 and runs courses throughout the year, including a biannual Foraging course with songs.
Rachel’s website Wildwalks-Southwest
Instagram rachallambertwildfoodforaging
Facebook WildWalksSouthWest
YouTube Foragingforwilds
Soundcloud singingforager
Mark Williams - Wild Food Guide, Mentor and Consultant at Galloway Wild Foods
Mark is a Wild Food guide, mentor and consultant, covering all things foragy, but especially the wild booze side!
Mark’s Website https://gallowaywildfoods.com
Nettle Gimlet Recipe https://gallowaywildfoods.com/nettle-cordial-and-nettle-gimlet-cocktail-recipe/
Instagram @markwildfood
Twitter @markwildfood
Sarah Watson - Wild Food and Cocktail Specialist at Wild Feast and Difford's Guide
Sarah has been teaching foraging for nearly 10 years and is the author of the ‘Bartenders guide to foraging’ articles for global drinks website Difford’s Guide. She’s a wild food and cocktail specialist who loves to introduce people to exciting, new, foraged flavours, and she run foraging and wild cocktail courses in the South East.
Sarah’s Website http://wildfeast.co.uk
Instagram @wild.feast
Facebook @wildfeast
Leanne Townsend - Wild Food Specialist at Wild Food Stories
Leanne Townsend is a wild food specialist in the North East of Scotland. She writes about wild food and runs workshops and courses, teaching people about nature’s larder throughout the seasons. Leanne’s specialist areas include creating recipes for wild food dishes and preserves, as well as foraged cocktails and infusions such as liqueurs with wild ingredients. Leanne also carries out academic research on wild food cultures in the UK.
Leanne’s Website www.wildfoodstories.co.uk
Instagram @wildfoodstory
Facebook Wild Food Stories
Sam Webster - Foraging Teacher and Wild Food Specialist at Foraging For Ages
Sam has been foraging for as long as she can remember. “I used to walk the fields of my Nana’s farm as a child collecting blackberries, damsons, and the occasional field mushroom, but I got really excited about foraging when I was in my 20s and I was bought a foraging course for my birthday, I’ve not turned off my inner forager since! I now do my hobby as a job, I love teaching people about wild food and seeing the amazement on their faces the first time they try a nettle and discover it tastes AMAZING!”
Sam’s Website Foraging For Ages
Instagram @foragersam
Twitter @foragersam
Shane Waltener - Artist, Lecturer and Author at UA London, Entelechy Arts and Stave Hill
Shane Waltener is an artist, a lecturer in design at the University of the Arts London, an associate artist with Entelechy Arts and resident artist at Stave Hill Ecological Park in Rotherhithe. He has co-author of Practical Basketry Techniques, a project book published by A&C Black.
Shane’s Website www.shanewaltener.com
Vega Hertel - Textile Design Student at Camberwell
Vega is a current university student studying textile design at Camberwell. Her interest lies in sustainable material experimentation, thinking locally and for the future.
Instagram @vegahertel
Theresa Webb - Naturopathic Medicine Practitioner and Founder of Kitchen Buddy
Theresa is an experienced Naturopathic medicine practitioner, yoga teacher, purveyor of organic vegan products and founder of Kitchen Buddy. She teaches foraging across UK as a London National Park City Ranger and Sustainable development community gardener.
Website http://littlemisstree.co.uk/
Effat - Expert in wild, raw Persian cuisine
Effat is an expert in wild, raw Persian cuisine and holistic lifestyles; she shares how she forages to include chlorophyll rich foods, for healing, on a daily basis, as an alternative to a European approach, with her introduction at London’s Spitalfields Market over 20 yrs ago.
Website http://littlemisstree.co.uk/
