Service Description

I have teamed up with the fantastic Crafty Pickle, producers of innovative fermented food & drinks based in Caldicot, to offer you a unique afternoon of foraging ingredients & learning how to preserve them, by fermenting your own wild kimchi and a soft drink! This will be a fabulously fun, informative & tasty afternoon! We will meet at an incredibly bountiful foraging site on the Severn Estuary, just outside Chepstow, where we will spend two hours exploring seasonal wild foods abundant in the meadows, hedgerows and coastal flats. I will teach you how to find, identify, sustainably harvest, and ultimately use, an incredible flavoursome array of wild ingredients in delicious food & drink recipes. Along the way, we will pick ingredients suitable for your kimchi such as wild cabbage, wild garlic, and salt marsh herbs and vegetables. We will also select flavours that excite you for your soft drink, such as tangerine and blood orange from pine needles, pink grapefruit vibes from Alexander shoots, or fresh fruity blossoms such as Elderflower and Flowering Currant, to name but a few! We will then take the short drive to the Crafty Pickle where we will be greeted by the lovely proprietors Madi & Arthur, who are experts in all things fermented. They will teach us to make a fantastic wild vegan kimchi, and a tasty fermented soft drink for you to take home and enjoy, so you will learn two very different preservation & fermentation techniques, which you can then apply to other ingredients in future, with your new-found fermenting skills! During the course of the afternoon, you will also be served taster nibbles & sips from their excellent range of fermented products. 2025 dates: Saturday March 15th & Saturday April 12th 12pm-4.30-5pm, £130 per person, with a maximum of 10 spaces available, so you will be guaranteed an intimate and enriching experience. Suitable for ages 15 and upwards, and all fitness levels. Any dietary requirements will happily be catered to as far as possible, if you have any serious food allergies, please email hello@thecraftypickle.co.uk before booking, to check that we can safely accommodate you.