Earthed is excited to present our partnership with Primal Gathering and their Bees to a flower programme.
Join us on the 16th of November for a day of all things Mushroom! Located in London’s local forest, Hampstead Heath. 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.
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.
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.
Tickets available here – Use code EARTHEDB2F and get 10% off tickets.
