Foraging Walks

Becoming familiar with the plants that grow on your doorstep is an opportunity to develop a deeper relationship with the place we call home. In these walks we will discuss how to include wild food and wild medicine in our everyday life, including recipes, techniques for preserving, natural crafts and the relationship between food and ‘medicine’.

These walks are a blend of information sharing and embodied exercises to invite you to walk through a landscape in a new way. Often we escape to the countryside to feel nature - it is possible to receive this in the city once we slow down and open our perception. These walks will support you to identify wild plants safely, learn good foraging practices that honour people and planet so you leave feeling confident and open your awareness to the magic of the plant world wherever you are along your green plant path.

Foraging Walks cover

  •  Recipes for everyday cooking, preserving techniques

  • Foraging principles: good practice for people and earth

  • Plant Identification: how to recognise plant families and poisonous plants

  • Kitchen Medicine and Herbal Remedies

  • Tasting wild food along the walk and using our senses to experience the plant

  • Developing our intuition and how to marry the intuitive and the practical

  • We will explore what it is when we say a ‘medicinal’ plant, exploring the relationship between food, medicine and plants beyond their physical properties

  • Wild tasters along the way and a wild snack

Private Walks and Events:

Private Walks and workshops are available throughout the year. 3 hour walk with tasters and a wild snack.

Locations in London:

  • Clissold Park, Stoke Newington

  • Mile End Park, Mile End

  • Horsenden Farm, Ealing

  • Ruskin Park, Camberwell

Outside of London:

  • Leith Hill / Box Hill, Surrey Hills

Cost:

£350 for up to 10 guests

£550 for up to 16 guests

Please contact me if you’re a charity or community organisation to discuss rates.

Foraging Walks 2025

  • Spring Foraging Walks Timetable

    Sun 9th March, Mile End Park

    10 - 1pm

    The first foraging walk of the year! Plants will just be popping their heads through the soil. A great time to be noticing the spring plants ready for harvest.

    Low Cost: £25

    Standard: £40

    Tickets
  • Foraged Nettles

    Sun 23rd March, Clissold Park

    10 - 1pm

    The spring will be in full bloom with an abundance of wild edible and medicinal plants. Leaves, flowers and shoots.

    Low Cost: £25

    Standard: £40

    Tickets
  • The Roundhouse, Story Garden Kings Cross

    Fri 4th April, The Story Garden

    5.30 - 7.30pm

    After work foraging at The Story Garden, Kings Cross. Experience urban foraging at Global Generation’s inner city home.

    Low cost: £22.38

    Standard: £30

    Tickets
  • Foraged Ingredients

    Sun 13th April, Mile End Park

    10 - 1pm

    Spring is now in it’s fullest and we start seeing an abundance of flowers alongside lots of greens. Summer is around the corner and the spring plants will be in their full expression.

    Low Cost: £25

    Standard: £40

    Tickets
  • Herb Garden at The Story Garden, Global Generation

    Fri 4th May, The Story Garden

    5.30 - 7.30pm

    After work foraging at The Story Garden, Kings Cross. Experience urban foraging at Global Generation’s inner city home.

    Low cost: £22.38

    Standard: £30

    Tickets
Group sitting under a tree Horsenden Farm
Foraging Group Mile End Park
Wild Food Spread

  • "We had such a great time and would 100% recommend - Charlotte was super knowledgeable and made it really enjoyable. Thank you so much!"

    Charlotte Phillips - Mile End Park Foraging Walk

  • ''I couldn't have hoped for a more lucid guide to local plants and lore than Charlotte Gordon. That Charlotte does not pretend to know it all is a mark of the considerable depth of her knowledge both practical and theoretical. Highly recommended''

    David - Foraging Walk at Horsenden Farm

  • ''Charlotte did a really interesting workshop and felt it was safe to try the flowers and plants she said we could touch and taste. I felt very calm and energised after her workshop was done; I was very tired all day before the workshop, but had my energy at the end of it''

    Private Foraging Walk

  • ''I really enjoyed it and was especially interested in the plants that were for medicinal purposes. Charlotte was great and her knowledge that she shared was great, she was so comfortable. I will certainly look at Kennington park in a different and interesting way from now.''

    Private foraging walk - Kennington Park

  • ''It was wonderful. Charlotte led us brilliantly and I was able to take much from the walk and talk that we’ll be able to use in developing the garden at Art4Space.''

    Private Walk for Art4Space