Food Safari hosts a detailed programme of butchery workshops, wild food forays, fishing trips, cookery courses and visits to artisan producers from bakers and brewers to cheese makers and smokehouses. There are full and half day workshops available to choose from: tours: evening demonstrations and talks. Participants will try new skills, enjoy fantastic food and drink and be inspired by the passion and knowledge of the farmers, foragers, fishermen, butchers and bakers who lead each Food Safari.

Food Safari gives each participant a fresh perspective on the food we eat. They run a year round programme of cookery courses, butchery workshops and behind-the-scenes tours that are all about discovering more about where food comes from. Many of the days are quite literally; field to fork or sea to plate: guests visit a farm, learn some butchery, cook the  food and then enjoy a feast.

The Food Safari behind-the-scenes tours are not normally open to the public.  Guests can visit farms, smokehouses, artisan bakeries and butcheries where they will get hands-on and learn something new whether it’s shucking oysters: boning partridge: identifying edible mushrooms or nurturing sourdough bread.

Food Safari courses and events run in Suffolk throughout the year from mushroom foraging in the autumn: game butchery and cookery in the winter: wild food foraging in the spring or off-shore fishing.

The Summer-Autumn itinerary includes the following events:

• Sunday 17^th June                                  Home Bread in a Day
• Friday 22^nd June                                  Evening Butchery Workshop (Lamb)
• Friday 22 June                                      Peter Harrison Pop-Up Restaurant
• Saturday 23^rd June                              Beer Safari
• Saturday 23^rd June                              Urban Foraging in a Day (London)
• Saturday 30 ^th June                             Seafood in a Day
• Saturday 7^th-Sunday 8^th                    Raw Food Weekend
• Saturday 21st July                                Preserving Summer in a day
• Sunday 22^nd July                                 Artisan Bread in a Day
• Saturday 28th July                              Children’s Food Safari
• Saturday 15th September                   Wild Food in a Day
• Saturday 15 ^th September                   Urban Foraging (London)
•  22nd &   23rd September                    Whole Pig Weekend
• Fri 5^th October                                        Peter Harrison Pop-Up restaurant
• Saturday 6^th October                              Catch and Cook
• Saturday 6^th October                              Mushrooms in a Day
• Sunday 14^th October                              Free Range Pig in a Day
• Friday 19^th October                              Evening Butchery Workshop (Lamb)
• Saturday 20^th October                         Mushrooms in a Day
• Saturday 27^th October                         Home Bread in a Day
• Friday 2^nd November                           Evening Butchery Workshop (Pork)
• Saturday 3^rd November                       Suffolk Hams Tour
• Saturday 10^th November                     Smoke House Tour
• Sat 17^th November                                Wild Meat in a Day
• Friday 23^rd November                         Artisan Bakery Tour
• Saturday 24^th November                    Artisan Bread in a Day
• Friday 30^th November                        3 Bird Roast Workshop
• Saturday 1st December                       Festive Baking in a Day
• Sunday 2^nd December                        Wild Meat in a Day
• Friday 7^th December                          Peter Harrison Pop-Up restaurant

Additional information Children’s Food Safari –  28th July

This unique half day event gives children a taste of Food Safari where they will visit Food Safari HQ and take a tour of the small holding. Children will have the chance to feed the pigs, collect eggs from the hens, see the bee hives, milk a Jersey cow and pick salad from the vegetable garden.

Polly Robinson is the founder of Food Safari. Polly is passionate about food in the simplest sense – valuing the food that we eat, understanding where it comes from and reconnecting with its source – farms, farmers, fishermen and artisan producers.

The inspiration for Food Safari comes from Polly’s aunt and uncle who have an organic hill farm, Bryn Cocyn in North Wales.  From them Polly has learned to appreciate what goes into producing food. The moment Polly’s aunt made her think about how much grass goes into producing a pack of butter, was a turning point!

Polly started Food Safari in 2009 and now has a packed programme of events taking visitors out into the countryside visiting farms, going wild food foraging, off-shore fishing or behind the scenes with artisan producers. Most of the courses are for adults, but there are also some short days for families.

www.foodsafari.co.uk