Wild Food Foraging Holidays
Undiscovered Greece
Wild Foraging Holidays in Elati , in the Trikala Prefecture, Greece. Small scale, family & solo friendly holidays including
mushroom foraging and hiking in Pindos mountain range.
An 8 days and 7 nights wild food foraging experiential holiday, with Slow cooking classes and soft hiking excursions
at the magnificent area of Elati.
During the Wild Food Foraging Holidays you will:
Pick up wild fruits such as strawberries, cherry plums and cornelian cherries, collect wild nuts such as chestnuts and walnuts, herbs suchs as nettle,
fresh lemongrass, oregano, and greek herbal tea (sideritis).
Learn in an experiential way the health benefits of wild food and discover wild food recipes,, the importance of food storage, and Slow Food food cuisine.
Experience farm to table visits at biological farms and help with farm work, follow a seminar bee keeping.
Visit local associations producing cheese & handmade pasta and experience food tasting in local tavernes under aged Platanus trees.
Find your ideal cycling path, try horse riding, or swim in the river (July – August).
The Wild Food Foraging Holiday is available from May to late October, is family, solo, and pet friendly.
Experience mountain living and taste life!
The Wild Food Foraging Holidays includes the following experiences:
Pick up wild Cornus mas (cornelian cherries) and make cornus ketchup, fruit leather, and syrup
Collect wild oregano and make Oregano oil
Make pesto with fresh cut dandelion and pumpkin seeds
Make Lip balm with coconut
Learn how to store herbs, fruits, and mushrooms and dry fruit
Superfood bag with biological berries, apple, peach, and cornus mas (cornelian cherries), and other products made during this 8-day Foraging Holiday such as oregano oil and wild Cornus mas ketchup & fruit leather.
Your accommodation
Stay over in a luxurious traditional build maisonettes complex, just 275 meters from the centre of Elati.
Includes: Two maisonettes, two double rooms, and three guesthouses exceptionally elegant and fully furnished, sleep 4 to 6 people.
All accommodation options have fireplace, private entrance and a Flat screen TV and limitless mountain views.
There is a dining area and a spacious kitchen were the cooking classes are offered and plenty outdoor spaces to enjoy under the Greek skies!