Autumn Wild Foods: Beginners Foraging Walk (Eastend residents only)

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Autumn Wild Foods: Beginners Foraging Walk - for Eastend residents only

In this free workshop we will forage what is bountiful in our natural environment in the season of Autumn.

We will be introduced to foraging consciously and sustainably according to the 'Hunter-Gatherer way' by forager and artist Jemima Hall.

We will start by identifying some beginners edible foods including leaves, flowers and trees.

We will discuss our findings and enjoy some wild tea.

Please note this event is specifically for those residing in the Eastend only. You will be required to enter your postcode when booking.

We will meet at 12.45 pm at the Saracen Fountain in Alexandra Park, Alexandra Parade, Glasgow, G31 3LJ. The walk will start promtply at 1pm and will last for 2 hours, finishing at 3pm.

All ages are welcome! Children will require their own parental supervision and care taking.

If you would like to bring a dog, please get in touch with Satya first to check at satya.dunning@glasgowfood.net

Please dress warmly for the September weather as it may still be chilly. You are advised to wear walking boots or sturdy shoes incase we go off the track and into mud. We will try to keep a pace to stay warm, and will enjoy a cup of hot tea at the end as well. Bring your own cup if you have one.

Free event. Please contact Satya at satya.dunning@glasgowfood.net with any questions or accessibility needs.

Photo by Viola Madau.

More information about Jemima's previous workshops and art practise can be found on instagram @jemima.e.hall and on her website www.jemimahall.com

Food & Climate Action is a project delivered in partnership with 6 organisations in Glasgow and funded by The National Lottery. Our Glasgow East host organisation is The Wash House Garden.

Accessibility:

The park has a network of paths throughout of varying surfaces although we may be going off the paths for this event. The park has step-free access.

Public toilets are available at the former depot at Sannox Gardens and Community Hub at Bowling Green (subject to opening times)

Getting Here:

Closest transport links are:

• Alexandra Parade rail station, approx 4 mins walk away
• Bannatyne Avenue bus stop, serviced by busses 38, 38A, 38B, 38C 38E, approx 3 mins walk away
• St Rollox Bowling Club bus stop, serviced by busses Bannatyne Avenue bus stop, serviced by busses 38, 38A, 38B, 38C, 38E, and 8, approx 5 mins walk away
• Aitken Street bus stop, serviced by busses Bannatyne Avenue bus stop, serviced by busses 38, 38A, 38B, 38C, 38E, and 8, approx 6 mins walk away

Jemima Hall is an artist and educator of ancestral skills based in the islands of Scotland’s Inner and Outer Hebrides. Jemima runs her foraging walks in each of the seasons in both the islands and cities where she encourages people of all ages to reconnect to their natural surroundings whilst being educated on local land and coastal plants, seaweeds, wild foods and their folklores, histories and medicinal qualities.

Jemima is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the ethnobotanical uses of natural materials within island and coastal environments, through experimental and experiential architecture. Evolving within fluctuating elements, Jemima studies a story of human resilience by creativity and survival, questioning our understanding of the habitable and uninhabitable, inspiring inter-island connections, and re-mapping the notions of centre and periphery.Jemima studies thatching, weaving, rope making, braiding, walls and windows using heather, grasses, stone, peat, animals and most notably, seaweed. The work is expressed through sculpture, visual poetry, film, photography, drawing and writing.