Foraging guide · Mead maker · Outdoorsman
Learn to work
with nature.
Foraging walks, talks and workshops in Somerset, Wiltshire, South Wales and beyond.
What's on
Guided walks, talks, workshops & retreats.
Learn how to identify plants, work with wild medicine, identify mushrooms and grow your own wild plants at home.
Supporting local woodlands, conservation and community projects.
About me
Hi, I'm Matt.
I'm a professional foraging guide, mead maker and (very part-time) outdoorsman, with interests spanning natural food, medicine, mycology, ethnobotany, brewing and homesteading. For over a decade I have been taking people into the woods on guided walks.
I am a big believer in helping nature, instead of just seeing it as a resource. I work mainly with conservation and community projects, meaning a percentage of each ticket sold actively helps the upkeep of these excellent initiatives.
More about me
Everything I forage, I also try to grow. Let's invite more native plants and fungi into our green spaces!
TOG Blog
Long & short reads.
Recipes, writings on nature, ethnobotany, explorations of folklore and more.
28 Years Later & The Bone Temple: An Examination of Folk-Horror and Hauntology
*Giants, Celtic-head hunters, neolithic funerary rites, Merlin, Hauntology and Devilish superstition. Here I explore how…
Quick Oyster Mushroom Grow Guide
Do you want to grow so many oyster mushrooms that you become tired of eating them by the fistful? Yes you do. Here's a q…
Rat Cake, Psychedelic Substances and Carl Jung: Why Bruce Parry’s Tribe is an Anthropological Treasure
In 2005, British explorer and TV presenter Bruce Parry became (to my knowledge) the first Westerner to partake in Ayahua…
Welcome to TOG Blog
**Here's my second attempt at running a blog site to host my writing. Welcome to this little site, and thank you for cas…
Quotes from past students
What people say.
Matt was very knowledgeable and fantastic throughout.
What a fab day with so much learnt.
We learnt lots and probably ate far too much of our foraged foods :)
In the wild
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