Private Foraging Walks, Retreats & Gift Vouchers
A foraging walk planned around you, or a gift voucher for someone who’d love one.
Group dates are a great way to start. But sometimes you want the day to be yours: your pace, your questions, the people you choose to bring. A private walk gives you my full attention and a day planned around what you want to learn.
Tell me who it’s for and what you’d like to get out of it, and I’ll plan the rest: woodland or coast, the best season for it, and how long we spend.
Choose your booking
Private walks
A foraging walk just for you, for two, or for your family or friends. We go at your pace, cover what you most want to learn, and you get every answer.
Celebrations and corporate bookings
Birthdays, anniversaries, hen and stag days, and team days out. A foraging walk your group will talk about, planned around the occasion.
Gift vouchers
A walk, a workshop or a Masterclass makes a gift that’s remembered. I can arrange a voucher for a specific event, or a flexible one the recipient can put towards any upcoming session.
The Ultimate Wild Retreat
A bespoke one-to-one or couples weekend, going deep into foraging, wild food preparation and preservation. By enquiry only.
What a private walk includes
- A walk planned around you: woodland or coast, the subject and the season
- Plant identification at your pace, with time for every question
- How to pick sustainably and within the law
- Answers by email afterwards, if a question comes up once you’re home
How gift vouchers work
- For a specific event, or a flexible amount towards any upcoming session
- Message me to buy one, and I’ll sort out the details with you
- The recipient books the date that suits them
Why learn with me
I’m Bex Northman, a Member of the Association of Foragers. I teach foraging and herbal remedy making across Cumbria, Northumberland and the Scottish Borders. I started foraging because I wanted better food for my family. Picked from the right places, wild plants haven’t been sprayed, and they give you a far wider range of plants and flavours than the same few crops that fill the supermarket shelves.
I’m not a medical herbalist, and I won’t pretend to be. What I teach is practical: the plants, the traditional methods, and the confidence to make it again at home.
On a private walk it’s just you and me, so everything I teach is shaped around what you want to know.
A session with Bex
“Bex holds a beautiful space around foraging, so much to be learned from her earthly wisdom in just one session with her.”
Louisa, Facebook recommendation
Practical details
- How long: planned with you when you enquire.
- Where: woodland and coastal sites across Cumbria, Northumberland and the Scottish Borders.
- When: dates by arrangement, all year round.
- Group size: just you, a couple, or a bigger group. Tell me how many when you enquire.
- What to bring: sturdy footwear and a waterproof jacket, because Cumbria’s weather changes quickly. A water bottle, and a basket or bag.
- Under-18s: welcome with a participating adult.
- Price: prices depend on the group and the day; send me a message for a quote. Gift vouchers can be for any amount, and the Ultimate Wild Retreat is priced on enquiry.
Make an enquiry
Tell me who it’s for, roughly when, how many of you there are, and what you’d like to learn. I’ll come back to you with a plan and a price.
Gift vouchers
Choose a voucher for a specific event, or a flexible amount towards any upcoming session.
Where next
Give it as a gift
Gift Vouchers
A private walk, a Masterclass or a workshop, for someone who’d love it.
Prefer a group date?
Masterclasses
A full day on one subject, such as wild mushrooms or hedgerow herbs, in a small group.
More questions? Read the FAQs →
Foraging safety. Plant and mushroom identification on my walks is given in good faith, but you’re responsible for your own identification. Never eat a wild plant or mushroom unless you’re 100% certain what it is. If in doubt, leave it out.