Immerse your self within the historic artwork of foraging for meals & drugs, and learn to put together wild fibres and weave containers from the land.
Myrtle & Emma warmly invite you to affix them for a weekend of foraging for wild meals and supplies to weave your individual distinctive small vessels, and making ready and sharing wild meals.
Early summer time brings a tapestry of woodland and hedgerow species, with an abundance of untamed meals, drugs and foraged fibres excellent for gathering.
Our dwelling for the weekend is within the coronary heart of West City Farm in Ide, with lined out of doors areas, and handmade wild refreshments supplied.
We’ll spend a part of the weekend out exploring & gathering, returning to our camp with all the pieces wanted to course of and weave a novel gathering pouch with wild fibres, and dive deeper into connecting with wild meals.
What to Count on On This Course
Discover sensory methods to seek out and meet crops which can be utilized for weaving and creating vessels.
Expertise the colourful and empowering conventional abilities of working with foraged fibres, making ready, processing and weaving a gathering pouch with seasonally accessible plant supplies similar to dandelion, nettle, willow, willowherb & iris.
Meet wild edible crops at dwelling in hedgerows and woodlands, hear concerning the tales they’ve to inform and the way our tradition is tightly interwoven with the story of crops.
Discover ways to put together easy wild meals recipes, shared collectively.
In regards to the Course
No fibres or foraging expertise is required.
This course appropriate for these aged 18+, or 14+ with an accompanying grownup.
An inexpensive diploma of health and mobility is required. We’ll cowl some barely uneven floor and stroll as much as two miles at a mild tempo with frequent stops.
Please deliver your lunch on each days to complement the wild refreshments.
Form Phrases
"Emma & Myrtle have been wonderful tutors, Explaining the concept and means of each practices beautifully. It was an ideal course & would not hesitate to go on one other!"
"Every day was stuffed with delights and new studying - the tutors have been wonderful and sooo educated - and splendidly beneficiant with their data"
"I feel most of these programs are higher than remedy in some ways. I am trying ahead to the subsequent journey"
When and The place?
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Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd June
Time: 10 am-4.30 pm
Value: £175 (contains handmade wild refreshments)
Location: West City Farm, Ide, Close to Exeter, Devon
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About Myrtle Cooper
As a younger youngster I used to be enchanted by the worlds of Enid Blyton’s Faraway Tree, Tolkien’s Ent’s and the Hungry Caterpiller’s meals led journey to metamorphosis.
Climbing to the highest of bushes in the hunt for hidden worlds, I imagined what tales they needed to share. I cherished the liberty and untapped risk I felt being within the wild.
Again in 2011, I rediscovered this starvation for tales and commenced looking to seek out that enchantment once more. Studying the language of crops, the previous lore and the way our human story is intimately woven amongst crops.
Research and work throughout permaculture, horticulture and regenerative meals techniques led to a prolonged immersion writing an MSc thesis, which introduced collectively a deepening curiosity in eco-therapy, plant intelligence and my ardour for wild crops.
Sitting with bushes, an invisible veil started to drop from my eyes, and the palate of greens took on new meanings; knowledge, meals and drugs from the hedgerows.
My observe of plant connection was born. A observe that helps my psychological and bodily wellbeing greater than some other.
Foraging and wild meals turned a gateway into exploring the world with new eyes, and heightened senses.
About Emma Capper
Emma is an ANFT Licensed Nature and forest remedy information, artist, basket maker and workshop facilitator with over 25 yrs of expertise delivering workshops within the expressive arts.
“I like to wander within the woods, gathering versatile stems and branches to create little vessels, baskets and easy items of woven artwork. My senses come alive as I really feel into the circulation of life within the fibres, honouring their life and mine.”
In 2013 she based Inventive Journeys in nature, weaving her love of artwork and nature collectively to curate workshops and forest remedy walks for folks from all walks of life.
She sees her work on this discipline as a type of eco-activism. Holding a playful but sacred area in nature for connection, therapeutic and inspiration.
