At Forage Box, we believe that wild and foraged food is tastier, healthier and better for the planet than food bought in the supermarket. Plus, time spent foraging is great for your mental and physical health… it’s good fun too!
Our mission is to reconnect people with nature through what they eat, whether that is treating themselves to one of our small-batch products, enjoying a meal made from freshly-picked, wild produce or getting out there themselves on one of our foraging workshops.
Our motto: Always Wild, Always Sustainable, Always Delicious is something we stand by and we want foraging to be recognised as a better way of sourcing our food.
All of our sessions focus on the ‘Four F’s of Foraging’ – fungi, fruit, flowers and foliage – providing the season allows it (we don’t find much in the way of fruit in spring, for example, but we try to find at least one edible mushroom on every session we run, regardless of the time of year). Obviously, this slightly changes on our ‘Coastal’ events too, with coastal plants (and fruit!), seaweed and sometimes shellfish taking centre-stage.
For 2025, our focus will remain on edibility and tasting the amazing ingredients found in nature, whilst teaching sustainable, safe and ethical foraging. There will also be some unique sessions – we call them ‘Specials’ – such as our Supperclubs, Wild Butchery and Fermentation events, but we are going to increase the number of our more standard formats to allow people of all levels abilities, backgrounds and enthusiasm to join in.
Our story
The story of Forage Box starts many years ago when Founder and Chief Forager, Jim, could be found playing in the woods as a child. Combining this connection with the wild and a love of food led naturally to becoming interested in foraging and learning about wild plants and fruits soon followed. Growing up, Jim was inspired by his Granny’s love of finding wild mushrooms and quickly learned about the safety and edibility of this fascinating world.
Fast forward to January 2020, and Jim launched Forage Box. The intention has always been to reconnect people with wild food, inspiring people to use foraging as a means to enhance their own home-cooked meals. The company has evolved from its beginnings – our wild food subscription boxes and Wild Deli being our most notable projects – and the focus is now a lot more about education. Forage Box’s motto, ‘Always Wild. Always Sustainable. Always Delicious.’, has always influenced decision making, and we are proud that the company has grown without compromising on these three elements. Along with our micro-batches of wild products, our foraging workshops are a perfect way to engage with the natural world, learn new skills, improve your health and try new flavours.
Whether it is hardy herbs harvested in winter, tender greens gathered in spring, succulent seaweeds plucked from the sea in summer, or fascinating fungi foraged in autumn, we have a foraging workshop suitable for everyone with events all over the country!
Nature offers us an entire world of unexplored flavours and we want to showcase them in their various forms to show you how versatile, interesting and delicious wild food can be.
Whether you join us for one of our popular foraging workshops, treat yourself to an item or two from our online shop, or spend a lunch break watching Forage Box TV, you will find that foraged food soon transforms your life for the better!
Quote from Forage Box:
“We know how important getting outside can be for our mental and physical health, so we are thrilled to be teaming up with Julia Bradbury and The Outdoor Guide as they continue to encourage people from all backgrounds to do precisely that. For us, it is all about reconnecting people with nature through the safe and sustainable foraging of the amazing wild ingredients they can find all around them. Partnering with Julia Bradbury and The Outdoor Guide is a no-brainer for us – everything they stand for is precisely why we do what we do.”
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