ViewRanger have created a new app featuring a collection of walks for people to forage for their own food.
The outdoor discovery app illustrates some of the best routes in the UK for fresh wild food, focusing on Dartmoor.
These are the second in the series of three collections ViewRanger have created in partnership with Sidetracked magazine and international mountain leader and expedition Chief Kieran Creevy.
Craig Wareham, ViewRanger co-founder said: “Nothing beats handpicking the ingredients for your supper straight from the earth.
Experience a dinner with a difference by joining the East Devon District Council Countryside team and food foraging expert, Chris Holland for a Wild food forage and cook up from 6:30pm to 9pm on Friday May 13 at Holyford Woods and Thursday May 19 at Knapp Copse. Walk with Chris, who is a food foraging expert, through the countryside, looking out for various edible wild plants. Countryside Team Leader, Tim Dafforn said:
‘’What better way to earn your dinner than by foraging for it and preparing it yourself in the great outdoors of the East Devon countryside?’’ After you have enjoyed...
Join wild food expert Chris Holland in the beautiful surroundings of Holyford Woods Local Nature Reserve for a foraging walk and supper.
The walk, organised by East Devon District Council’s Countryside team, is on Friday 15 May from 7 until 9pm. Participants will learn how to safely recognise and prepare at least 15 wild edible plants to be found in the woods during mid May and will also cook up some of their findings en route. Chris said “Foraging for wild food and cooking it together around an open fire is something humans have been doing in small groups for hundreds of thousands...