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Tree Foraging Walk and Talk - Come and join us in Celebrating Tree week with Olwyn our foraging tutor who will guide you through all the wonders and benefits of tree foraging!
Join us and find out about the abundance of nature’s harvest and what you can forage from trees? Fruit is an obvious answer, but did you know that the bark, seeds and leaves or needles of many trees are also edible, medicinal or can be used in crafts? This walk and talk with forager and wild food specialist Olwyn Williams will introduce you to a variety of edible and medicinal tree crops, alongside some harvesting techniques and ways to use them as food or simple herbal remedies.
We will be outdoors meeting a variety of trees in situ, discussing identification traits and growing habits, which parts of which trees are safe to consume and which are potentially dangerous, what times of the year and stages of growth are the best for harvesting, and how to harvest them. What you will learn is suitable for personal or household use as opposed to commercial scale.
Fees: €20 - The event will wrap up with a tasting session where you will sample a selection of foraged tree crop food products.
Places are limited for more info and to book - please visit our website @
https://www.celtnet.org/events/tree-foraging-walk-and-talk
Location: Slieve Aughty Center, Kylebrack, Loughrea, Co. Galway, H62DX77
We are grateful to support and funding from the Irish Environmental Network through the Department of the Environment,Climate and Communications
Tutor Bio: Olwyn is a forager and yoga teacher based in East Co. Galway. Her work explores the relations between humans and plants and is informed by the need to reclaim food sovereignty, connect with local landscapes, and meet our basic needs in ways beneficial to both people and planet.
Fun Fact - Trees are part of our very identity. We are all familiar with being addressed at public events as “A Chairde Gaeil” but did you know that the Irish word for an Irish person – Gael - comes from the Welsh language Goídil. It means a person who lives in a wood!
So long ago, the Welsh people looking the 60 miles across the Irish Sea at a heavily wooded Ireland realised that we must all live in the woods. It was they who first referred to us as “A Chairde Gaeil”. Our connection with trees is as old as the Irish language itself, which is around 2,500 years old!
Sunday 9th March to Sunday 16th March
National Tree Week is Ireland’s largest annual tree celebration, and is proudly organised by the Tree Council of Ireland. This special week invites communities across the nation to come together to appreciate the beauty and crucial importance of Ireland’s trees.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Slieve Aughty Centre,, Kylebrack, Ireland H62 DX77, Galway, Ireland
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