Spring Forage

Spring Forage

St Georges Mushrooms and wild spring greens at Moses Gate Country Park

By Colin Unsworth, Forest Horizons

Date and time

Sun, 11 May 2025 11:00 - 15:00 GMT+1

Location

Cemetery Entrance

Lower Rawson Street Farnworth Bolton BL47RY United Kingdom

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Refunds up to 7 days before event

About this event

  • Event lasts 4 hours

Please contact if you have any questions or would like a HUGE 25% discount!

Spring has sprung and excitement is in the air! Come for a walk and learn about edible plants and we'll see what mushrooms we can find. There's a good chance of St Georges mushrooms and with this incredibly wet winter finally drying up there has been a good few unseasonable fungi species popping up. Fingers crossed!

Moses Gate Country Park is a superb location for springtime foraging with lots of edible plants and herbs.

There is parking nearby. Public transport is easy, there are regular trains and buses between Bolton and the Manchester and some of them stop at Farnworth which is a 5 minute walk away. If you have any transport questions or issues please get in touch.

And.... Lets go foraging :D

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Colin Unsworth, Forest Horizons

Forest Horizons is owned by teacher and lecturer Colin Unsworth. Bringing a mixture of skills together to offer people an opportunity for personal growth in a natural environment, courses and teaching include woodworking, wild food foraging, woodcraft skills, forest art, bushcraft, open fire cooking.Past appointments include Senior Lecturer in Woodmachining, Bench Joiner, Cabinet Maker, forage leader, forest school leader. Colin is also a lead admin on the UK's largest social media group with 80K members, Mushroom Spotters UK on Facebook.

Mushroom foraging courses. Foraging for mushrooms, you will learn to slow down, to connect with the forest and understand how species connect with each other. Learn how the mycorrhizal species help the trees to gather nutrients and support each other, how the saprotrophic species break down dead matter in a way that no other thing in nature can do. The format of a forage course is to liven your palate with a sample or a few of gins made from wild ingredients, gaultheria or sloe or pinecone and many more. Tastes to blow your mind. Then, staffs in hand, a forage walk/ A slow paced wander through the woods, learning about the fungi we find and collecting some in our baskets for the fry up at the end where we get to taste the treats we find. A forage walk is overflowing with wellbeing and mindfulness and is a welcome break from our busy lives.