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Wild Food UK – Who are they?
Set up over 15 years ago and now probably the country’s premier foraging education company, Wild Food UK, co-founded by Marlow Renton and Eric Biggane, has contributed to innumerable public events, appearing on TV and radio shows and podcasts, with interviews, talks, demonstrations or consultancy. Marlow and Eric are now joined by our skilled foraging instructors and office team.
This is some of what we’ve been involved in:
- Numerous TV cookery programmes, BBC Nature programmes and even dating programmes! To name but a few… Mary Berry’s Absolute Favourites, Walks with My Dog with Julian Clary, James Martin’s Islands to Highlands, the very first episode of Simply Raymond Blanc, the Vaness Feltz show and Philip Pullman’s fantasy drama – His Dark Materials.
- Interviewed on many radio shows – from Jeremy Vine and Farming Today to BBC Local Radio. Hear Eric on Radio 4’s Crowd Science episode ‘Where Do All Our Vegetables Come From?’
- Own Wild Food UK YouTube Channel – Prolific creator of free educational video content – viewed over 1 million times in the last year.
- Provided comment and expert opinion to live news programmes both nationally and locally, including the Deathcap mushroom story from Australia!
- Collaborated and talked about foraging for food with numerous celebrity chefs, including James Martin, Michelin starred chef, Raymond Blanc, Asian cuisine chef Jeremy Pang – and of course, national treasure, Mary Berry!
- Featured at hundreds of events as professional speakers and demonstrators for both foraging and cooking – on major stages and smaller talk tents, including most recently the Royal Three Counties Show.
- Team building, celebration, party and entertainment events: we’ve provided innumerable bespoke private foraging events for businesses such as Jaguar Land Rover, Craghoppers Outdoor Clothing, charities, organisations, schools, universities and individuals. We also organise hen and stag events!
- Given many entertaining/educational talks to local groups and societies.
- Interviewed on podcasts both in the UK and internationally, including the award-winning Roots and All gardening podcast.
- Helped with newspaper and magazine articles in many national publications.
- Collaborated on books with consultancy, text and imagery and written our own best-selling Wild Food UK publications!
- Frequent social media contributor @wildfooduk
- Have taught thousands of people, both adults and children – running courses on how to forage safely, responsibly and enjoyably.
How can we help you?
Please contact us for any media enquiry or to use our images – simply email us at [email protected] or fill out our form below: We look forward to hearing from you!