Wilder Kitchen Lab: Foraging Botanicals

Step into the wild and learn to forage for botanical herbs and wild edibles with confidence. This interactive workshop will guide you through identifying seasonal plants, understanding their medicinal properties, and exploring their unique flavour profiles; before bringing them into the kitchen to create beautiful, nourishing dishes.

You’ll gain practical knowledge about plants that are both abundant and safe to identify. The plants shared during the workshop are carefully selected for ease of recognition, with no dangerous look-alikes to worry about. You can feel grounded and assured as you forage.

What You’ll Learn

• How to confidently identify a selection of edible and medicinal plants

• The traditional and modern uses of each plant

• Flavour profiles, from bold and pungent to delicate and aromatic

• Which herbs are best for cooking, tea blending, and natural garnishing

• How to incorporate wild botanicals into everyday meals

You’ll discover plants with strong, distinctive flavours that can elevate savoury dishes, gentle leaves and flowers that brew into delicate teas, and beautiful botanicals that add colour and vibrancy to your plate.

What’s Included

• Guided plant identification and education

• Hands-on cooking and preparation

• Shared food made on the day

• Recipes to take home and recreate

This workshop is designed to reconnect you with the landscape around you. Building your confidence, sharpening your senses, and deepening your relationship with the plants that grow at your feet.

Rebecca Hawkes works as an artist across multiple mediums, bringing this diversity of practice into Wilder Kitchen. With a background as a graphic designer, exhibited photographer, and professional chef, her work may span different disciplines, yet it is united by core values: sustainability, storytelling, and the cultivation of inclusive, diverse spaces.

At the centre of her practice is ‘nature as teacher’. Through cooking with plants, she creates opportunities to share stories, nourish guests, and invite them into moments of presence. Meals become memories: large tables transform strangers into companions, and outdoor gatherings remind people of the landscapes that sustain them. In eating together, participants not only connect with each other but also nurture the nature within.

600,- per person