Free Food Foragers

04/12/2024

Check out my giant balls!!! Giant puffballs that is 😆🍄 bigger ones were too far gone to eat, but little ones were peeled sliced dipped and crumbed fried until golden brown = mmmhmmm. They look terrible on the outside but peel back the skin, fluffy white marshmallow inside and white all the way through with no yellow or purple = puffballs! Was just driving down the street and saw these large white rocks and my foraging instinct kicked in, I had to stop and see!

25/11/2024

Bit of rain and our farm is filled with fungi again! I thought it was snow at first glance, but it's fungi breaking down all the animal poo!

25/11/2024

It makes my soul smile when I hear feedback about my events really touching people's inner fairy and reconnecting with mother nature ❤️ much love to you Em ❤️

25/11/2024

What what? SANDWICH CAKE! yeahhhhhh it is! 🤪 cream cheese and French onion frosting with radish slices topped with quince paste, picked onions and Miner's Lettuce. Inside is asparagus, gerkin different flavored slices. I wanted to make our Foraging family something special after they missed out on all then wild food afternoon tea action yesterday.

24/11/2024

Wow what a great event today, thank you to the wonderful group of foraging ladies who joined me for our first 3 hour intensive workshop. You all made the day so much fun ❤️ I'm beyond lucky to do this for a living and you have my gratitude for your continued support. Everyone made their own custom herbal tea to take home, learned how to make poultices, infusions and we had 20 herbs and plants on the display table to use and eat!
The food was so yummy, the fish shaped cake was the croud fav😋 we've had a lot of requests to run this event again and I'm pleased to announce we'll be running another one soon 😀

23/11/2024

So many Jars of dried herbs in my workshop kitchen for our workshop today, I have some serious satisfaction over 10 herbs I've processed in the last few weeks for this event. I was cooking for 4 hours yesterday making some amazing tasty treats for my fellow foragers to enjoy 😉

22/11/2024

Do you know what this flower is? ;) We do and we love it! BUT did you know if you crush the yellow flowers they become a red dye colour? It's St John's Wort. Well regarded for its mood boosting properties, but it's also anti inflammatory, anti bacterial and antiviral! What a great herb - but bad space invader w**d of native areas so harvest the s**t out of it when you can! Easy identification atm with those trademark yellow flowers and it's tiny green leaves.

This will be one of the stars of the show at Sunday's Foraging in your backyard

Herbs & Wild medicinal Workshop

1 or 2 places still left if you're keen ❤️

19/11/2024

I miss mushrooms! Show us your fav mushroom pick ❤️🍄 I'm envious of all the European foragers I see picking fungtastic baskets full of shrooms! 🤣 here's some of my fav picks from the past few seasons

19/11/2024

A little sneak peak - guess what I've been finally getting around to?

13/11/2024

Menu testing for our upcoming event is hard work = NOT! 🤪
Elderflower infused scone crumble slice with Cheesecake topping and berry yummy quick jam.
Quick jam as I call it = (made from the fruit my son left in his lunchbox today!) - slice up your fruit- put in bowl - add some water and a smidgen of sugar - microwave at 1-2 min intervals until reduced to jam consistency 👌 great way to make use of berries that are about to become chook food 🫐🍓

09/11/2024

It's flower harvest day! One of my fav harvest days of the year 😀🌼 some rose petals did get thrown in the air with joy and frolicking.
We'll be sampling each of these flavours in herbal tea blends at our next event, where we will be making our own custom healing herbal tea blends. Mother nature really provides such abundance.
Can't wait to see you there to try all these amazing flavours! https://www.trybooking.com/CWPNE

08/11/2024

Do you drink herbal tea? We ❤️ it! A good cuppa is good for the soul & body. We make our own here at FFF. It saves so much $ and is so much better when you harvest it yourself - you know what is in your tea, no chemicals, no carbon footprint, organic and not shipped 1/2 way round the world or made exploiting underpaid workers.
It's so easy to do - we'll be showing you how to make it yourself at our next workshop Foraging in your backyard

Herbs & Wild medicinal Workshop

Not to mention all participants in our next workshop will be taking home their own jar of self made wild herbal tea, having a cuppa and enjoying an afternoon tea wild food smorgasbord of tasty treats.

Just a few places left if you'd like to join us for a cuppa ❤️
https://www.trybooking.com/CWPNE

07/11/2024

So excited for this event with our brand new local community house 😜 1/2 places sold out already! https://www.trybooking.com/CWPNE

Harcourt Valley Community House, in partnership with Free

Food Foragers presents
Foraging in your own backyard
Herbs & Wild Medicinal Intensive Workshop

Sunday 24 th November (12pm - 3pm)
@ Harcourt Valley Community House, Old Railway Station, 23 Station St Harcourt
Cost $100
Have you always wanted to know what herbs and edible plants are in your own
garden? What medicinal uses for wild herbs and common plants are growing in
your own backyard?
Well now you can learn from one of Australia’s leading Foraging Educators Ingrid
Button from Free Food Foragers. Ingrid will be hosting an exclusive event
immersing you in the world of wild edibles, herbal medicine and foraging for your
health & wellbeing. In this 3 hour intensive workshop you will learn how to
confidently forage for yourself – learning from a nationally accredited educator
with over a decade of foraging education experience.
We will feast on foraged ingredient gourmet treats with a herbal afternoon tea
experience. With cake, savoury nibbles and of course wild foraged herbal tea all
created by our Foraging guide.
This is an authentic experience not to be missed as we learn together about all
the amazing plants and herbs that nature has to offer all around us growing wild
and free!
Includes:
Identification Q&A session with one of Australia’s leading wild food experts – bring in
your samples from your own backyard to find out if they have uses
Learn how to confidently forage for yourself – learning from a nationally accredited
educator with over a decade of foraging education experience.
Medicinal & edible w**d identification walk
Make your own wild herbal tea take home pack
Herbal high tea with delicious foraged nibbles, cake & taste testing herbal tea we make
Learn how to make wild herbal remedies
How to dry & preserve herbs.
To book go to https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1311106

04/11/2024

Some illuminating VERY exciting news coming soon!
We're finally putting on some social foraging events with glowing performances from our head forager Ingrid. She's playing with fire again 🔥🤪
Keep an eye out for more to come 🤗

01/11/2024

Native pink flowering Elderberry burst into bloom yesterday 💖 it's my fav Elder - I have a habit of collecting varieties of Elderberry around our farm! It's exquisite almost black and green leaves are so special.
I'm making Elderflower syrup for our upcoming event
Foraging in your backyard

Herbs & Wild medicinal Workshop


🌿ONLY 6 PLACES LEFT! wow this one is selling out fast > tickets available here

https://www.trybooking.com/CWPNE

20% of profits go to Harcourt Valley Community House so let's support this great community initiative together ❤️

31/10/2024

Happy Beltane & Halloween for yesterday!
Our family celebrates Beltane which is a joyous spring salute to Mother Nature- basically we throw flowers in the air - feast and offer thanks for the beautiful gifts nature has given us in the season past and ask for happiness in the season to come! ❤️🌼 we give offerings on our Nature Altar of Hawthorn & Elderberry flowers to symbolise healing and rebirth.
BUT that being said we also love a good costume dress up opportunity so we do both Despite my feelings of disgust at the American corporations take over of what was originally a pagan festival - that takes place in Autumn! Called Samhain (pronounced sa-ween) Hence the pumpkins they were a symbol of the last harvest before winter 🎃 And don't even get me started on the plastic and the sugar consumption of modern Halloween!!

But I swallow all that deep down and take my son trick or treating cause we love dressing up! Hope everyone had a great day no matter what you were celebrating yesterday ❤️

29/10/2024

WHAT W**D IS THAT??
Wild Fennel
Don't fear foraging, learn and dispel that fear & find your own free wild food.
Next workshop 24th November 12-3pm hands on intensive 3 hour foraging education experience - Foraging in your Backyard Herbs & Wild medicinal Workshop https://www.trybooking.com/CWPNE

28/10/2024

Thanks for being a top forager and making it on to our weekly fav forager list! 🎉 Duang Tengtrirat, B Diy Barks, Leisa Rule here's some happy flower joy from Foragers Family Farm to you 😀