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Wild Goose Festival Foragers: Footsteps From Home with Wild Kat Foraging
October 18, 2025 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
The sound and sights of barnacle geese, whitefronts and more have always heralded home to me so I am delighted to be involved in this year’s wild goose festival and on home turf too!
We will spend between an hour and a half urban foraging, starting from the festival hub in Dumfries, where we will look into the surprising variety of things to forage along the way. Plantlore, foraging for food, medicine, craft, navigation and more will be the subject of the day but we can also use it to reflect on the subject of migration, how this landscape and its flora and fauna may have been used by the historical inhabitants of this very town and its surroundings whether settling down or moving on.
Once we have finished our walk and talk it will be back to the festival hub where there will be the unique opportunity to create recipe cards with the inspiring illustrator and all round lovely artist Emily Tough.
Accessibility info to come.
My name is Kat, I run Wild Kat Foraging, and I am an all year, life-long forager, historic reenactor and sufferer (happily) of chronic wanderlust, lover of wild places with a tendency to be found roaming off-grid in forests and mountains.
I have a background in bushcraft and survival skills, ranger-work, remote conservations and am in the association of foragers. The most important thing though is that I love this world of foraging that we can never stop exploring and am happy to share what I have learned and invite you to as well.
There is a whole world of foraging and plantlore to explore!