Edinburgh, Penicuik Spring Foraging Courses

The Pentland Hills Regional Park is a breathtakingly beautiful area, covering 10,000 hectacres of Scottish countryside. During our courses in the Flotterstone area – near Penicuik, we usually find a range of tasty spring shoots and in the summer a wide variety of some of the best edible mushrooms around.

We’ll be meeting at the Flotterstone Inn, which is a lovely welcoming country pub and is less than 10 miles from the centre of Scotland’s capital city. 
The course starts with a short introduction on what to look for, our foraging code and a brief of the Countryside Act, where it relates to foraging. 

Then we’ll set off on a roughly 2.5 hour walk around the area, teaching you how to identify the different plants, flowers, fruits and mushrooms that we find.

We will stop along the way for some seasonal homemade refreshments such as our lovely hogweed and wild garlic soup, elderflower champagne or fruit leathers.

Then it’s back to the meeting point for a tasty wild food lunch, based on what we have found. All of our food is seasonal, so what we make depends on recent weather and what is around at that time of year. In spring we will be making use of the fresh wild greens, and later in the year the array of tasty wild mushrooms.

After the course, we will email you a list of everything we talk about on the day to help you to remember what you have learnt.

Please bear in mind this is a walk in the Pentland Hills and our usual route does include a reasonably steep hill.

The Pentland Hills Regional Park
Flotterstone area.
(Off the A702 Biggar Road)
Near Penicuik
Edinburgh
EH26 0PP

Kindly park in the Pentland Hills Regional Park car park, not in the Flotterstone Inn car park. This is pin-pointed on the map, thank you.