Forage, Feast and Fire in Scotland
Offering 2 special days of foraging for wild foods and ancient fire and cooking techniques.
One at the coast ~ foraging for salt marsh and estuary plants.
The other day inland ~ foraging for wild herbs and vegetables.
Join Mo and Werner, experts in delicious wild food and hunter-gatherer history and techniques. Friendly, fun, informative sharing of our skills and knowledge in a relaxed, informal, enjoyable day out.
The Summer Session: Forage, Feast, and Explore in Norway
Join wild living pioneer and primitive skills visionary Lynx Vilden and forager, herbalist and wild food expert Monica ‘Mo’ Wilde for a truly transformative week immersed in the rhythms of nature.
Set in the serene wilds of Rena, Norway, Lynx and Mo bring a powerful blend of ancestral wisdom, scientific insight, and soul-deep connection to the land. Join them in summer 2026 for an unforgettable journey into wild living, plant knowledge, and the skills that awaken something ancient within us all.
For 6½ immersive days, explore ancestral skills, wild wisdom, and earth connection through hands-on practice, deep listening, and community. This is a fully outdoor, off-grid camping experience, living close to the land throughout the week.
Date: 18 to 24 July 2026
Autumn Fungi Foraging Courses
Our new Fungi Foraging courses are now on sale! Join Matthew Rooney as he delves into the delights of fungi foraging in West Lothian, Perth and Inverness. As we only bring 12 people with us on each course, be sure to book sooner rather than later.
Learn to forage with wild fungi expert, Matthew Rooney. Find out how to identify common fungi and tell them apart from their poisonous cousins! Discover their use as wild foods, medicinal mushrooms and sample their unusual tastes. How does the moon and weather influence them? This is a 3 to 3 1/2 hour foraging walk with a further 1/2 to 1 hour labelling specimen and examining the identification table at the end. Small group with expert tuition. Covers identification, harvesting, preserving, cooking, health benefits and folklore.
Free Food: Wild Plants & How to Eat Them
My new book is out now!
Whether you live in a city or in the countryside, a world of amazing, diverse wild food is at your doorstep. Not only is wild food free and sustainable; it is also jam-packed with nutrients and flavour beyond anything you will find in a supermarket.
In Free Food,award-winning author and forager Mo Wilde explains how to identify the plants, seaweeds, nuts and spices that are safe (and delicious) to eat, including foraging staples like wild garlic and lesser-known herbs like the fragrant sweet cicely. Organised into plant families, it gives you the tools to develop a deeper understanding of a plant’s visual cues and their place in the ecosystem.
Once you have identified the plants, Wilde also describes ways you can eat them, whether that’s making jams from wild berries or gluten-free flour from roots and nuts. The possibilities go on. You can deep-fry hogweed tempura; top your dishes with cow parsley; create a wild pantry of herbal infusions, spices and fermented drinks, and even tap beech trees for their sap.
Gorgeously illustrated, Free Food will awaken your sense of wonder. Whatever your lifestyle – whether you are an enthusiastic forager or simply curious about wild food – this book will inspire you to get outside and re-connect with nature.
The Wildbiome® Project
The Wildbiome Project 1 in 2023 involved members of the Association of Foragers participating in a citizen science research study. In Phase 2, 100 people took part. In both studies, foragers ate only wild food for either 3 months or 1 month. They were monitored for changes in body composition, blood tests for health markers. Their gut microbiome was also tested against a reference control of people eating normal shop-bought food. This year for 1 month in September a new cohort will participate. What we want to know is, in times of food iinsecurity, what would happen to our bodies if we had to go back to eating only wild food?
The Wilderness Cure is out in paperback!
I am thrilled that The Wilderness Cure is now out in paperback and is available from all good bookshops! To learn more about it, click here.
Support for The Kalahari’s Last Hunter-Gatherers
Monica also works for the Heritage Village Foundation, a not-for-profit that supports the green living and sustainable projects of the Ju|’hoansi indigenous people in the Kalahari Desert. Find out more about this work at heritage-village.com