Big Nath’s BBQ School – Foraging x BBQ Class 🌿🔥
📅 WHEN: Saturday 16th May 2026 
📍 WHERE: Big Nath’s HQ, Backwell (full directions provided via email upon booking)
Join us for a one-of-a-kind, hands-on BBQ and foraging experience in collaboration with Helen from Wayfarer’s Outdoors – a foraging expert with a passion for wild ingredients and sustainable cooking. 🌲🍄
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🌟 What to Expect
A relaxed and engaging day filled with expert guidance, great food, and warm hospitality. 🤝🍽️
Schedule:
🕙 Arrival: 10:00 AM
⏳ Duration: 5–5.5 hours
Highlights:
• ☕ Kick off the day with coffee/tea and a foraged breakfast
• 👋 Welcome intro, meet the team, and housekeeping
• 🔥 Learn about the BBQs and smokers we’ll use, and explore sustainable fuel options
• 🌿 Guided woodland foraging walk with Helen
• 🍳 Hands-on BBQ preparation and cooking session
• 🥗 Delicious lunch, dessert, and local beverages included
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🧾 Sample Menu (Subject to seasonal availability)
• 🥓 Laverbread (bara lafwr seaweed) fried up to go with bacon
• 🫓 Wild garlic flatbreads
• 🌿 Thistle “artichokes” steamed with wild herbs
• 🧅 Braised Alexanders stems
• 🥔 Garlic mustard & ground Alexander seed spuds
• 🥬 Wild Leaf Salad:
– All the wild spring garlics
– Sorrels
– Bramble buds & young leaves
– Bright green beech leaves (weather dependent)
– Primroses & violets
• 🍰 Hogweed seed Parkin
• 🍨 Elderflower custard or ice cream
• 🌸 Elderflower fritters
• 🍒 Noyau
• 🍸 Cherry vodka
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👩‍🏫 About Helen
Helen spent much of her childhood in the Welsh Borders where she learnt about plants and their uses from her mother and grandmother. She went on to be a teacher and then an archaeologist but never lost her love for nature and wild foods. 🌼 Her knowledge of foraging was consolidated by achieving a Level 3 qualification in Foraging and Wilderness Cookery. Helen runs Wayfarers Outdoors which offers a range of courses ranging from foraging to experimental archaeology to bushcraft and related skills. 🏕️🪵
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📋 Details
• 👥 Small group size: Max 12 participants – enjoy plenty of 1-to-1 guidance
• 🥘 Lunch and pudding included
• 🎒 Take home new skills, tasty memories, and maybe even a few secret ingredients!
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⚠️ Terms & Conditions
• 📩 Please inform us of any dietary requirements or allergies upon booking
• ♿ Contact us in advance to discuss accessibility or support needs – we’ll do our best to accommodate
• 🚫 18+ only
• 🧑‍🍳 This class is for personal use only – not for commercial training
• 🐶 Sorry, no children or dogs (assistance dogs welcome by prior arrangement)
• 🔁 No refunds; date changes allowed with 30+ days’ notice, subject to availability