Fire, Foraging and Feasting for New Business
How honed is your eye to the opportunities around you for new business?
It’s easy to become disconnected from them.
Wilder.Work Days – founded by exited agency founder Holly Tennock - creates the space and stimulus for reconnection. They are hosting an event especially for agency owners, directors and senior leaders to reconnect with their hunger for new opportunities and their innate skills of how to find them.
Wilder.Work creates long-term partnerships with large landed estates looking to take land out of intensive agricultural use and re-wild it to restore natural processes. The secret Wilder.Work site they'll take you to, with tents and a wild kitchen, is inaccessible to the public and privately owned since the 1600s. They connect people in inspiring natural places and on this occasion they have chosen the wonderful Hatch Park Estate in Ashford.
The “Fire, Foraging and Feasting for New Business” day, gives you a chance to enjoy a safari-style off-site to reconnect you with your innate skills of identifying the right new business opportunities. Step out of your day-to-day and connect with other agency folk to learn the ancient skills of foraging in a rewilding landscape. Attune your observational skills and your natural sense of abundance whilst hanging out in beautiful large stretch tents and big hat teepees in a private woodland with a large rewilding meadow opposite.
Not only that, but you’ll be able to feast on your new-found skills – with a little help from Green Starred Michelin Chef, Shane Pearson, who will create a 3-course lunch in an unforgettable wild location including delicious foraged foods.
After lunch, apply this refreshed way of thinking directly back into your business in a coach-led workshop that uses natural stimulus to fire up a whole new way of thinking about your approach to landing new business. Leave with an increased sense of connection to opportunities for your business. Come away with peer-tested business development ideas ready to land new opportunities for your business.
This event is invite-only, so if you haven’t received a direct invitation, please email Holly Tennock via holly@wilder.work or Michael Murdoch via michael@thehouselondon.com today.
Spaces are limited as this event is purposely intimate, so be quick and secure your spot now.
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Key Details:
Host: Holly Tennock, 07966 280 542, holly@wilder.work, Founder of Wilder Work
Co-Host: Michael Murdoch (founder of The House )
Guest Experts: Shane Pearson (Wild Chef) and Michael White (Forager)
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Date: Wednesday 19th June 2024
Time: 10:30am to 5:00pm
Venue: Hatch Park Estate, Ashford
Address: Exact location to be advised upon booking - for security reasons we cannot pinpoint it publicly.
Map: To be shared upon booking.
Nearest Stations: Ashford International
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Schedule for the day:
- 10:30am - Welcome drinks and light snacks - introduction to the area
- 10:30am - Session 1: Foraging across the landscape - guided by Michael White
- 12:30pm - Lunch Break: Hyper-local lunch prepared by Green Starred Michelin Chef Shane Pearson
- 13:30pm - Session 2: Coach-led foraging for new business session - applying your new found skills of observation, abundance creation and resilience into your business
- 15:00pm - Session 3: Presentations and feedback from the group
- 16:00pm - Session 4: Foraged cocktail and canapes creation over fire
- 17:00pm - Head home with a packed tea - Venison Bao Bun or a vegetarian option for those who require
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Lunch Menu:
Eating foraged foods in the place where they were foraged creates a sensual connection to the landscape. Many of the flavours and combinations at our Wilder Work days are unique to the week of the season and the specific location of the Wilder Work day in the North Downs of Kent. Beyond flavour, eating foraged food is incredible for the diversity in your gut microbiome with proven heart, circulatory and mental health impacts.
The Green Starred Michelin Chef Shane Pearson, behind this delicious menu, is also keen to inspire you to forage for a few ingredients when you’re home so he will be on hand to explain how to recreate much of the day’s food.
Starter:
- Hay Smoked Planked Trout with Elderflower Emulsion
- Pickled Candy Beetroot
- Chickweed Pesto
- Mallow and Hawthorn Petit Salad
Main Course:
- Tornado of Venison with Wild Garlic
- Wild Nettle Cake
- Salt Baked Carrot
- Spiced Venison Jus
- Wild Sorrel Oil
Sides for the Table:
- Crispy Jersey Royals with Burnt Hay Salt
- Foraged Salad
Dessert:
- Charcoal Meringue Eton Mess with Foraged Berries Infused Wild Lime Syrup
- Elderberry Cream
Snacks to Take Away in Bamboo:
- Sticky Venison Bao Bun with Wild Nam Jim
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Catering:
- Arrival drinks and snacks
- Lunch (3 x courses including foraged ingredients you’ve likely never tried before, sharing platters)
- Ingredients for foraged cocktail and canape
- Kombucha, water, teas and coffees
- Foraged wine and spirits tasting with alcohol free options available too
Dietary Requirements and Allergies:
Please share this information when booking your space via the online form and also make the venue staff aware on the day.
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No. of Guests Expected: 10-20 agency owners, directors and senior leaders (e.g. creative, video, animation, web, mobile, software, SEO, PR, PPC, branding, marketing, design etc.)
Price: from £300+vat (+ Eventbrite fees)
Included in the ticket price:
- Venue access
- Food & Drinks including 3 course hyper-local lunch
- Activities & Workshops including foraging lesson
- Coaching and team feedback session on the topic of business development
- Cooking over fire to create cocktails and canapes lesson
- Expert guidance from our hosts, facilitators, and speakers
- Equipment for the day outdoors
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Reasons to attend?
Get a fresh perspective on the opportunities that surround you; a more natural sense of connectivity to yourself, your environment, what you eat, your peers and your role at work; feel present and grounded in your business as it is just in the present moment in awe-inspiring surroundings; enjoy the delicious taste and nourishment of hyper-local wonderful food; feel good about how you’ve spent the day and be part of the journey to restore nature in the UK. in the south-east of England. Hone your eye and mind to the opportunities around you, connect with like-minded people over a phenomenal hyper-local meal in nature and come away feeling restored, refreshed, and ready to land new opportunities.
