Foraging with Diego Bonetto

Learn how to forage for wild food, medicinal plants, and edible mushrooms with Diego Bonetto. Discover the most common species growing in your garden, at the beach, in parks, and in forests. Find out how they have been used for food, craft, and natural remedies. Experience family, wheelchair, and pet-friendly strolls in nature, or join on an edible adventure. Over 100 experiences are offered a year, following the seasonality of mushrooms, seaweeds, wild fruits, and edible plants. There is always something to learn about and taste. Diego has over 20 years of experience presenting wild food foraging workshops in the Sydney, Illawarra, Blue Mountain, and Mid-Western regions of NSW. Offering bespoke adventures for your group or team, or just join one of the regular walks. Wild food awaits! Diego's edible adventures have received a substantial amount of media including a Gardening Australia appearance, and have been recommended by Marie Claire, GQ Australia, SMH, ABC, and SBS radio and TV. Diego is the author of best-selling book Eat Weeds: A Field Guide to Foraging, published in 2022 by Thames and Hudson Australia Come and join Diego on a walk to learn about nature and its bounty....

Product Types

• Adventure and Outdoors Tours
• Food and Wine Tours
• Half Day or Less
• Full Day

Tours

• Seaside Edibles Workshop

  

  Learn the what, where, and how of wild food at the beach. Ever walked along the coastline and wondered about all of those plants, seaweed, and seafood? Are they edible? How do you harvest them? How do you positively identify them? Are you allowed to collect them? Join Sydney forager Diego Bonetto on a three-hour workshop learning the what, where, and how of collecting a meal from the seashore.

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  • Carpark
  • Family Friendly
  • Non Smoking
  • Pet Friendly - Enquire
  • Public Toilet

• Wild Edibles Foraging Workshop

  

  Take a walk in the park and discover the edible and medicinal plants living around you. You will never look at weeds in the same way again after taking part in this workshop. Join wild food expert Diego Bonetto on a 2.5 hours stroll in the park and learn about the most common edible and medicinal plants that surround us all. This workshop will give insights into the abundance of edibles thriving in the Sydney Basin. Typical species they will talk about include: dandelion, sowthistle, ironweed, flatweed, farmers friends, and wild fennel.

  Facilities found here

  • Carpark
  • Family Friendly
  • Non Smoking
  • Pet Friendly - Enquire
  • Public Toilet

• Forage to Feast

  

  A seasonal edible adventure that sees a collaboration between renowned forager and environmental educator Diego Bonetto and stylist, designer, foodie and weed convert Marnee Fox.

  Facilities found here

  • Carpark
  • Family Friendly
  • Non Smoking
  • Public Toilet

• Mushroom Foraging Workshop

  

  Join us for a magical day out in the forest where you’ll learn the how, when, and where of wild mushroom foraging. You’ll also learn how to preserve your seasonal bounty and enjoy a wild mushroom tasting. Your foraging guide Diego Bonetto who has 20+ years of teaching this skill under his belt, will take you on a wild food adventure in the pine forest, uncovering the details of where to look, when to move and how to harvest edible pine mushrooms.

  Facilities found here

  • Carpark
  • Family Friendly
  • Non Smoking
  • Pet Friendly - Enquire
  • Public Toilet