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Herbal & Wild Food Foraging Walks – Spring 2023

Saturday 22nd April 2023 at 10am (approx. 2 hours)

Urban Foraging in Lancaster

A guided foraging walk around the green spaces between Lancaster Castle and the Quay, taking in some cultivated and wilder green spaces, to discover the edible and medicinal treasures growing there.
Starting point for this walk –
We will meet near Lancaster Castle – full details on booking.

£10.00 adults.
Any under 16s accompanied by an adult go free.
Limited places - booking and pre-payment essential.
To book - email via the contact page.

Sun 30th April 2023 at 2pm

Freeman’s Wood Walk - Foraging

As part of this year’s free “Wildlife in Freeman’s Wood” walks, I will be leading a foraging walk. We will focus on plant identification, traditional and current uses, as well as how best to prepare plants for food and medicine usage.

For more information : www.freemanswood.com
Free event – donations welcome

Tue 2nd May 2023 at 6pm (approx. 2 hours)

River Lune Foraging

Do you know your Bear’s Garlic from your Lady’s Smock?
A foraging walk along the River Lune (upstream) in search of the edible and medicinal plants, including spring greens and wild garlic.

You will learn how to identify plants, about their properties and how best to prepare them, as well as some historical and folklore uses.

Starting point for this walk
We will meet near the Millennium Bridge, Lancaster – full details on booking.

£10.00
Limited places - booking and pre-payment essential.
To book - email via the contact page.

Thrive Magazine

Julia contributes regular articles on foraging and plant medicine to Thrive magazine, published by Food Futures.

You can read download digital copies of the magazines here -
Thrive North Lancashire Magazine - FoodFutures

Podcast: Rethinking Food - the Backyard Garden

As part of the Lancaster Health Festival (Sept 2020) podcast series, I was interviewed alongside garden designer, Jennifer Lauruol, by Royal Lancaster Infirmary chaplain, Ian Dewar.

The podcast explores some simple ways to incorporate plants in your life to maintain and improve health on many levels. It includes Jennifer discussing edible hedges and Julia sharing information about the health-giving properties of some easily-identifiable garden weeds.

It was a pleasure to share this platform with Jennifer. Her garden design practice (Carpe Diem Garden Design - https://carpediemgardens.co.uk) is firmly rooted in permaculture, and she and I have swapped ideas on plants and health for many years now.

A link to the podcast is here

And you can find it here with other podcasts from the festival https://www.thelancasterhealthfestival.org.uk/podcasts/

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