Woodland Foraging Walk: Mushrooms and Plants: 30 August
30th August: Beecraigs Visitor Centre: 10am
£30.00
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Join me for a foraging walk, searching for mushrooms and other fungi, wild greens, botanicals and fruits. During autumn walks we will discover fungi such as oysters, cauliflower fungus and puffballs. As well as late season botanicals, we will look for fruits including elderberry, rowan and Japanese raspberry. Throughout the morning gather the basic skills required to identify common edibles as well as how to avoid poisonous & inedible lookalikes.
Ambling through the trees and alongside the loch we will explore how to make wild food a staple and the benefits of doing so - from the nutritional to the cultural and philosophical.
The walk should last ~3 hours with the opportunity to stay a little later to ask chat and ask questions. We will meet outside the visitor center, where coffee, meals and snacks are available. Suitable for all ages and abilities with children welcome - individual or family tickets. As we will finish by the playpark, this is the ideal loction for keen young foragers. Not easily accessible via public transport (the nearest station is 3 miles away at Linlithgow, about ten minutes by taxi).
Under 5s are free to attend, and older child tickets are £5.
Meeting Point: Visitor Centre, Beecraigs Country Park, Linlithgow, EH49 6PL
Time: 10am - 1pm
For concession pricing, please enter 'concession' at checkout