LONDON: Wild Food and Nature Walk: E3: Saturday February 15th 2025

Join us for a wild food and nature walk.

‘‘An amazing walk with Forage London and Beyond at Tower Hamlet Cemetery.  Our guide Ken was brilliant and even made us some green smoothies from our foraged bits.’ Laura Ngyou

An afternoon at the amazing Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park. A foraging walk, with a nature walk thrown in. This is quite literally the most fertile and diverse square mile of the city, if not the entire country so prepare to be amazed…(under 10’s go for free).

Course Leader
Your leader Kenneth (Ken) Greenway is the site’s manager and he’s worked at Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park since 2002.  Kenneth Greenway, is an experienced forager, wild food enthusiast, and a Come Dine with Me winner!

The Venue
An afternoon at the amazing, award winning Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park (THCP). One of London’s Magnificent Seven Victorian Cemeteries.  Closed to burials since 1966 and a designated public park and Local Nature Reserve a short walk from Mile End Tube Station in E3.

The Cemetery Park has an extraordinaire diversity of both woodland and meadow plants, wild mushrooms, and fruiting trees, so prepare to be amazed.

On our Forage London THCP tours you will learn to identify many different plant species and if we are lucky a few wild mushrooms, and appreciate them for their own sake and for their wildlife value. Foraging is all about sustainability. Forget the expensive fancy green food smoothies – and get yourself down to your local park and get to know the plants in intimate detail.

Here’s what one person thought recently of their wild food experience in THCP:

“THCP is nothing short of stunning and Kenneth, my Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park guide, is unbelievably knowledgeable about edible plants. ‘Wild food isn’t going to replace your weekly shop but what it does do, is it will get you interacting with your open spaces in a different way,’ he tells me as we walk together, armed with a wheelbarrow, trowel, water, and bowls for washing what we find. ‘This means thinking about recipes, cooking, where ingredients come from and how wild food can be an ingredient.”

Explore London’s most urban woodland in search of something for the dining table. You’ll learn sustainable harvesting techniques and basic plant and fungi identification. Nibble berries, scour for seeds and rummage for roots – then take some home to turn into your own wild creations.
With Ken’s experience and guidance, you can safely nibble you way around the Cemetery Park, learning about what foods can be eaten, and which cannot, from the wild during the different seasons.

Great for those who would like to improve their identification of common plants and mushrooms used for wild food. It may be particularly useful for people who camp and cook over an open fire, or those who would like to use wild plants in home cooking and anyone with an interest in this area is welcomed.