“That coming together, gathering foods and gathering medicines is deeply healing and satisfying and an enjoyable way to experience life. And it’s simple and it’s free.”

Robin Harford established his wild food foraging school in 2008, and his foraging courses are listed at the top of BBC Countryfile’s ‘Best foraging courses in the UK’. He is the creator of eatweeds.co.uk. Michelin chef Richard Corrigen recommended the site for inclusion in The Times' Top 50 Websites For Food and Drink. 

Robin refers to himself as an ethnobotanical researcher who is interested in the relationship between plans and people which has resulted in his extensive travel around the world to document and record wild food plants’ traditional and local uses in indigenous cultures. His work has taken him to Africa, India, SE Asia, Europe and the USA. His work has been recommended in BBC Good Food magazine, Sainsbury’s magazine, The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, etc. He is a member of the Society for Ethnobotany and the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland.

Robin talks on:

• Best practice gathering guidance- abundance and sustainability principles
• The relationship of plants and people in different cultures
• His foraging courses which focus on the sensory method of plant identification
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• The media's coverage of foraging and lack of ecological understanding
• The Special Client Project - plant ambassadors and community-based teaching.
• His personal transformation through foraging and gathering plants for mental health and addiction recovery.

Find out more about what Robin does at eatweeds.co.uk

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