Join us on the 16th of November for a day of all things Mushroom! Located in London’s local forest, Hampstead Heath. We will spend the day foraging and learning all about mushrooms. How to identify them, what they can be used for, and how to cook edible mushrooms at home. Followed by a special meal cooked by Peter Daniel Grant and a concert.

About Mushroom Foraging

Successful foraging — means being able to find tasty, edible mushrooms and avoid the poisonous kind. This requires you to learn about the wild mushrooms in your region that are good to eat. Together we will learn about local trees, and which ones support the kinds of mushrooms you’re after. We’ll learn how the mushrooms like to grow — which enjoy growing on dead trees, at the base of specific trees, on the trunk of trees, in well-drained soil, in moist cool soil? You’ll learn about the mushroom sizes and shapes. About their colors. About their stems and gills (if they even have gills) and spore prints.

A lot goes into identifying a safe-to-eat mushroom. But that makes the experience all the more rewarding. While discovering, a portion of the city, seemingly known, in an unknown, untrodden path and way.

About Alexandra

Alexandra Lea, is a biologist, forager, and wild food teacher, heralds from the rolling hills of the South Downs in Sussex.

Under her dynamic brand, The Female Forager, Alexandra has joined forces with innovators like Nomadic and the Psychedelic Society, leading transformative mushroom identification workshops across the UK, and teaching us to connect with the forest landscape, while honing participants’ skills in finding gourmet and medicinal fungi.

Alexandra’s passion for mushroom foraging stems from her deep, intuitive bond with the forest. She inspires others to reconnect with nature’s edible and medicinal treasures, sharing her infectious enthusiasm for the mystical fungi kingdom.

 About Peter Daniel Grant

Chippy-Grant’s vegan cuisine is a riot of antioxidant-packed organic, seasonal, foraged and fermented dishes served at communal feasts. As well as being packed with goodness, his ability to blend flavours and unexpected ingredients cleverly even has sceptics of the plant-based lifestyle asking for seconds.

A bit about Bees to a Flower
Bees to a Flower is a Primal Gathering initiative that encourages people, past participants, their friends and the extended community to act as bee’s to a flower to their local community ‘flower’ projects. Actively pollinating the wider ecosystem with the support they need while learning new and empowering skills.

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We are marking our one year anniversary by stepping up our mission to remove barriers to education and access to nature, making it even easier for people globally to participate in ecosystem restoration. 

“Over the last year, we have seen our message reach over 4 million people globally, with 55,000 visitors to our charity site and close to 3,000 members taking online classes, led by some of the most inspiring nature leaders globally”, shares Christabel Reed, Earthed co-founder. “It’s clear to us that people want to learn how they can actively participate in restoring nature or growing food, and having a global open-access platform makes that easier than ever. We have always welcomed members who were not able to make donations, but we live in a time-economy, and we can now give people access to the content they want, for free, exactly when they want it.”

“We hope that this makes it as clear as possible – we need everyone, everywhere to participate in a mass-mobilised ecosystem restoration movement. It doesn’t matter whether you build biodiversity in a windowsill box or a farm, we all have the power to bring nature back into our lives. Stop waiting to sow that seed, attend that local clean-up, restore your local river. Time is against us, but with the right skills and community support, we can restore nature and make every balcony, river, city and forest burst with life.”

Please join us in celebrating one year of Earthed by spreading the word that we can all be nature guardians! Together, we are making our radical imaginations of a world where nature and communities thrive, a reality.

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