Summer Online Foraging Course

Most foraging guides start with names and uses: memorise this, harvest that, fill your basket and move on.

But when you skip straight to taking, you miss the small details that tell you whether a plant is safe, ready, or worth gathering at all.

That's when mistakes happen.

Robin Harford has foraged for his meals for over twenty years and spent fifteen of those years teaching thousands of people to identify and gather wild plants safely.

He's the author of Edible and Medicinal Wild Plants of Britain and Ireland, which has sold over 65,000 copies.

He has travelled extensively, documenting and recording the traditional and local uses of wild food plants in indigenous cultures. His work has taken him to Africa, India, SE Asia, Europe and the USA.

In this unique online course, Robin will help you meet plants before you harvest them. You will discover:

• Fourteen wild plants of summer: where to find them and how to identify them safely and confidently
• The Domei sensory practice, a method for meeting a plant with all your senses before you gather
• How to build confidence through seeing, smelling, tasting and sensing, not just memorising names
• The ethics of harvesting: when to gather, when to leave, and how to forage with respect
• Answers to real questions from real foragers, in a full recorded Q&A session

This isn't a checklist. It's a way of slowing down long enough to notice the leaf pattern, the feel of a stem, the particular scent that tells you a plant is ready, so a relationship with the land has room to grow.

What you'll get

• Two years of access to the complete course materials
• Two video lessons (1 hour 25 minutes total): Introduction to the Domei sensory practice and summer foraging walk exploring 14 edible plants
• Botanically accurate photo galleries for confident plant identification
• Full Q&A recording from the original live session with questions and answers
• Ethics and safety protocols you can trust

About the author

Robin Harford is not a theorist. For over twenty years, he's foraged for his meals and has spent fifteen years teaching thousands of people to identify and gather wild plants safely.

His field guide, Edible and Medicinal Wild Plants of Britain and Ireland, has sold over 65,000 copies and is used, mud-stained and dog-eared, by foragers and plant lovers across the country.

BBC Countryfile featured his foraging courses at the top of their recommended list. The Times listed his website in their top 50 for food and drink.

He has conducted ethnobotanical research across four continents, documenting traditional plant knowledge from Southeast Asian jungles to remote parts of India and the African bush.

Robin is a member of the Society of Ethnobotany, the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, the Herb Society, and the Association of Foragers. He brings scientific rigour to traditional knowledge.

His work has been featured on national television and radio, and in publications including The Guardian, The Telegraph and BBC Good Food.

He lives in Devon with his sweetheart, daughter nearby, and two grandchildren.