Service Description

Join us for a fun, informative & tasty afternoon of foraging fantastic seasonal wild ingredients & creating your own delicious & unique wild soda & kimchi to take home, along with fermenting skills for life! In collaboration with the brilliant Crafty Pickle, producers of innovative fermented food & drinks, we invite you to join us for a unique afternoon of foraging ingredients & learning how to preserve them, by fermentation. We will meet at an incredibly bountiful foraging site just outside Chepstow, where we will spend two hours exploring seasonal wild foods abundant in the meadows, hedgerows and estuarine coastal flats. We will focus on ingredients ideal for you to choose for your kimchi, such as wild cabbage, mustardy and peppery foliage, wild garlic, crunchy and flavour-packed sprouts and stems, and salt marsh herbs and vegetables. We will also select flavours that excite you for your soft drink options, such as tangerine and blood orange from pine needles, grapefruit vibes from Alexander shoots, or fresh fruity Spring wildflower blossoms such as Elderflower and Flowering Currant, to name but a few! I'll also bring supplemental pickings from other habitats, to add to your choice of wild ingredients. We will then take the short 15 minute drive to the Crafty Pickle HQ professional kitchen and workshop space in Crick, near Caldicot, where we will be greeted by the lovely proprietors Madi & Arthur, who are experts in all things fermented. They will teach us to make a fantastic wild vegan kimchi, and a tasty fermented soft drink for you to take home and enjoy, so you will learn two very different preservation & fermentation techniques, which you can then apply to other ingredients in future, with your new-found fermenting skills! During the course of the afternoon, you will also get to sip and snack on all of their amazing products! All Spring 2025 dates have sold out! To be notified of future dates please email me. 12pm-4.30-5pm, £130 per person with a maximum of 10 spaces available, so you will be guaranteed an intimate and enriching experience. All equipment will be provided, along with follow-up info & email support. Suitable for ages 15 and upwards, and all fitness levels. Any dietary requirements will happily be catered to as far as possible, if you have any serious food allergies please email hello@thecraftypickle.co.uk before booking, to check that we can safely accommodate you. GIFT VOUCHERS AVAILABLE, REQUEST FREE VOUCHER AFTER BOOKING!