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2 Day River Cottage Foraging Course with John Wright

Croan Cottages, 27 & 28 august 2016

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Join us for a unique foraging and culinary experience as John Wright, of the UK's famed River Cottage, comes to Croan Cottages, Kilkenny, Ireland

This is a 2 day course & all of your meals are included (including drinks).

This is an exclusive opportunity to hunt for wild food and cook with one of the key members of the River Cottage team in a beautiful part of Ireland.

Places on this course cost just €345 which includes your accommodation, all of your meals, course materials and some goodies to take away.

There are a limited number of non residential places also available. The cost for a non-residential place is €295 for both days (including meals) or €95 for Saturday or Sunday's foraging walk.

Course Description

Join John Wright and the Croan Cottages team of local cooks and artisans for a 2-day, residential foraging and cookery course with a difference.

We'll forage together in the fields and forests around Croan House, cook what we find together, and eat & drink together

You will stay in our holiday cottages and double, twin and single rooms are available, depending on your need.

Course Details

 

Date: 27 & 28 august 2016
Time: 10am to 4pm each day
Price: Just €345 per person

- Includes 1 Nights' Accommodation, Full Board (including drinks with dinner), all Teaching Sessions & some goodies to bring home.

 

A small number of non-residential places available - €295 for both days with meals or €95 per day for the Foraging walk.

 

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Accommodation Type
Twin Room Sharing €345.00 EUR Double Room p/p €345.00 EUR Single Room €375.00 EUR 2 Day Non-residential w/meals €295.00 EUR Saturday only non-residential €95.00 EUR Sunday only non-residential €95.00 EUR

What others have said about our Courses

What participants on our previous 'Taste of River Cottage' courses have said:

    • "It was a fabulous weekend guys. You must be very proud! You were great hosts and it was a joy to be in your company."
    • "What you are doing in Croan Cottages is absolutely wonderful & your recognition and support of other local artisan suppliers is commendable."
    • "Steve & Gill were absolutely brilliant, very much at ease and their depth of knowledge and willingness to share it was what made it for me."
    • "Thank you so much for the wonderful weekend. I enjoyed it so much - the food, the location and the fun we had was beyond my expectation."
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John will help us to identify the many edible plants that can be found growing in our hedgerows, woods and fields. Wild food and mushroom expert John Wright will guide you safely through the pleasures and perils of nature’s harvest.

We’ll spend morning and afternoon sessions roaming through the fields and woods around Croan, identifying and gathering edible crops. We’ll return to Croan House after each session to prepare and cook our finds. 

During your stay your host, Francis, will also introduce you to life at Croan. Together you will meet the animals, take a look inside the bee hives and enjoy some 'made earlier' foraging treats.

  • "We all thought your course was great. Eating together and staying in the cottages with other participants made for a different and very congenial experience."
  • "Thank you very much for the fabulous weekend with the two charming guys from River Cottage."
  • "I learnt lots every day and hope to put it all in to practice in the next few weeks."
  • "You really put all your heart and soul into organising and running the weekend."

As the course is over 2 days there will be plenty of time to tailor the content to suit you. 

We'll also have local producers stop by during the course to showcase some of their products including some very special local Beer!

 

Contact Details

Croan Cottages,
Dunnamaggin,
Co. Kilkenny

(Just 90 minutes from Dublin)

CroanCottages.com

+353 (0)56 77 66 868

smCroan Drive & Cottages

 

John Wright


John Wright



John Wright has featured regularly on the River Cottage TV shows and is one of the UK’s foremost experts on wild food foraging. John’s foraging courses are in huge demand and we are delighted that he was able to fit in a late-summer foray in Kilkenny.

As well as being an expert in wild food, John has also made a name for himself as a prolific home brewer. We’ll be putting John’s expertise to use during the course so that participants can take homwe reciopes for making delicious (and free) booze! We’ll even have some that ‘we made earlier’ for participants to enjoy.

John has written four of the River Cottage handbooks – Hedgerow, Mushrooms, Edible Seashore and his most recent addition, Booze. He is also the author of ‘The Naming of the Shrew: A Curious History of Latin Names’ and in June, John released his latest book, ‘A Natural History of the Hedgerow and ditches, dykes and dry stone walls’, a fascinating look behind the garden hedge and into the rich world of hedgerows and boundaries across Great Britain and Ireland.

 

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2 Day foraging Course with River Cottage's John Wright
Croan Cottages,Kilkenny, Ireland: 27 & 28 August 2016

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Jillian Australia

The experience at Croan Cottage was delightful from beginning to end. In addition, I fell in love with Ireland and plan to return.

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