About Sam

I'm Sam, I've always been obsessed with foraging, nature and finding free food (not necessarily foraged food) , it started off on my Nana's farm when I was a child, picking blackberries from the hedgerows and helping her to make jam, and play become making “wild soup” with a bucket of water, leaves and flowers.

Growing up, I bought a book on mushrooms to copy the pictures for my GCSE art project and since then I've been obsessed with mushrooms. 

I have always carried on the tradition of gathering fruits late summer and autumn, when I had my first child i often went out with her strapped to my front and a rucksack full of wild apples, plums and pears on my back and a basket of blackberries and raspberries in my hands. At that time my recipe repertoire was rather bland, making infused alcohols, jam and pie. 

So in 2012 my husband bought me a foraging day so I could learn more about wild food… I can honestly say I'll never forget that day, something inside me turned on and I've not been able to turn it off for a single second since.

In 2017 I started my running foraging events and it has become my career. It's the best job in the world, I get to talk about plants, mushrooms and nature all day long!

I’ve a background in teaching as I was a secondary school teacher for 10 years prior to teaching foraging. 

I’ve taught a range of different foraging events from introductory courses, in depth courses where we cook a meal with our finds from the day, wild booze sessions, and I teach coastal, inland and fungi forays.

I'm at my happiest exploring, cooking, learning new things and taking photos. 

Forage, Foraging courses, Foraging, Wild food, Wild plants, Wild mushrooms, Foraging course near me, Foraging vouchers, gift vouchers, vouchers, gifts for her, gifts for him, gifts for wives, gift for the wife, gifts for husbands, husband gifts, gifts for sisters, gifts for brothers, gifts for 20th birthday, gifts for 21st birthday, gifts for 30th birthday, gifts for 40th birthday, gifts for 45th birthday, gifts for 50th birthday, gifts for 60th birthday, gifts for mum, gifts for dad, Mother’s Day gift, Father’s Day gift, group activities, outdoor, outdoor adventures, outdoor activities, nature activities, outdoor events, outdoor experience days, nature days, birthday, hen do, stag do, anniversary, girls day out, lads day out, corporate days, workdays, work events, special occasion, special occasion days, gift voucher, gift vouchers, days out, experiences, food, foody, chef, chefs, what to buy a, nature lovers, cooking, cooking experience, cooking lesson, cookery, wild garlic, mushrooms, fungi, mushroom foraging, mushroom foraging near me, foraging near me, autumn, summer, winter, spring, outdoor cookery, outdoor cooking, seaweed, coastal foraging, mycology, mushroom identification, mushroom course, mushroom preservation, mushroom recipes.

Shropshire, whitchurch, market drayton ellesmere, telford, wem, oswestry, stoke on trent, wolverhampton, birmingham, stafford, crewe, nantwich, cheshire, winsford, northwich, warrington, liverpool, calderstones, hawkstone, aigbirth, huyton, mossey hill, wavertree, toxteth, kensington, everton. Bootle, kerdale, manchester, anfield, childwall, wirral, west kirby, Birkenhead, Wallasey, heswall, flint, north wales, neston, deeside, chester, buckley, mold, wrexham, lytham, lytham st annes, preston, blackpool, southport, fleetwood, macclesfield, altringham, lymm, stockport, peak district, cheadle, didsbury, congleton