Wild food foraging at Harting Down

Visitors to Harting Down will have the chance to find out how nature can provide us with a rich and varied medicine chest, on Saturday 23 April. The National Trust is running a foraging event with Alice Bettany, a herbalist passionate about using herbs and foraged foods in our daily lives.  The event will take place on this beautiful area of chalk downland where the air is rich with the song of skylarks and the grassland is a live with flowers and butterflies.

Alice says “I feel passionate about sharing my knowledge with children, as they begin their journeys to become future guardians and protectors of the world around us. In order to inspire children I hope to inspire their parents by offering workshops for whole families to attend together”.

Spend the morning foraging for goodies in the grassland and woodland and learning some basic identification skills with Alice.  Then the afternoon will be given over to cooking up inspirational recipes from our common native plants. This day is aimed at gaining a deeper understanding of plants and their nutritional and medicinal uses. For more information visit our website at http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/harting-down