Learn to Meet Plants Before You Harvest

The recording of our live Summer 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 subtle details that tell you if a plant is safe, ready, or worth gathering. That's when mistakes happen.

The truth is simpler: meet the plant first. Build a relationship before you gather.

What's covered in this course

• Fourteen wild plants of summer—where to find them and how to work with them safely
• The Domei sensory practice: a step-by-step method for meeting plants with all your senses before you gather
• How to build confidence through seeing, smelling, tasting, and sensing, not just memorising names
• Key safety guidance most books skip over
• The ethics of harvesting: when to gather, when to leave, and how to forage with respect
• How to cook with wild plants intuitively, without recipes

What makes this different

Most foraging guides give you lists. Plants to find. Uses to remember. Recipes to follow.

But lists don't teach you to notice the tiny differences that matter—the subtle variations in leaf pattern, the feel of a stem, the particular scent that tells you a plant is ready.

This course teaches you the Domei sensory practice: a method for meeting plants deeply before you ever take them. You learn to see, feel, hear, smell, and when safe, taste each plant. Not to tick it off a list, but to build a felt understanding that stays with you wherever you walk.

Robin Harford has been teaching foraging for nearly two decades. His courses have been listed among the UK's best by BBC Countryfile. He's the author of Edible and Medicinal Wild Plants of Britain and Ireland, which has sold over 65,000 copies, and has conducted ethnobotanical fieldwork across Africa, India, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the USA.

This isn't about rushing to harvest. It's about slowing down, noticing deeply, and letting relationships grow.

Who this is for

This IS for you if:

• You're curious about foraging but unsure where to begin safely
• You want to build confidence by learning to sense plants directly
• You're a cook, gardener, herbalist, or walker wanting a deeper connection to the land
• You're seeking a slower, more respectful way to harvest

This is NOT for you if:

• You want a quick list of edible plants without building real understanding

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 daily 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.