Mushroom Foraging, Freshly Cooked Meal and a Concert (Bees to a Flower) with Alexandra Lea and Peter Daniel Grant

Join us on the 1st of December for a day of all things Mushroom! Located in one of London's local forests.  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.

If you require a low-income ticket, please do reach out at production@primalgathering.co  These are given based on need and availability.

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.


Things to Bring With You

• Comfortable shoes
• Snacks for the road
   

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. Join our newsletter here. 

*Tickets are non-refundable, but name changes are welcome

Meet at 1.15 pm at Hampstead Heath Overground entrance of the park (please arrive by 1.30pm as we will set off on time, and it might be challenging to find us!)