Taste the Wild
Chris and Rose Bax set up Taste the Wild in 2008 to promote wild foods as exciting ingredients to use in innovative ways.
we can see by a plants features a likely identification and the landscape around can confirm it.
Managing their 18 acre site is Rose’s favourite pastime. They are slowly reducing the number of conifers in the wood and replanting with native broadleaf species. She likes nothing more than getting her chainsaw out and doing some thinning.
Taste the wild offer professional services to leading restaurants, hotels and culinary establishments. Chris’s time in catering has given him the knowledge of the industry necessary to be able to advise chefs and restaurateurs on wild food ingredients.
If you want advice or help with spoken or written media on aspects of Wild Food and foraging please contact Chris.
Let us help you find and use the best of seasonal wild ingredients.
Please get in touch if you need any help with articles or copy about wild food and foraging.
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What a brilliant day. Enjoyed everyone’s company. Chris & Rose’s great knowledge & cooking skills made for a totally wonderful experience. Will definitely be looking to do another course next year.
Fab day. Really enjoyed it. Perfect birthday present from hubby. Can’t wait to teach my kids things I learnt. Thanks guys for making it a lovely day.
Hi Chris and Rose. Thank you for an absolutely fantastic grand day out. I genuinely cannot recall a more amazing day full of fun, information and exciting new experiences. I came home feeling exhilarated and content and a trifle wind burned. The foraging was first class and the food was incredible and the company was friendly and congenial . Your knowledge and expertise was phenomenal and your method of transferring a small fraction of that to a novice forager was brilliant. I’ve just made a lovely crab risotto with crab from Staithes and flavoured with the Sweet Cicely you gave me. Thank you again
It was lovely to meet you both yesterday and thank you for running your excellent cider course. I really enjoyed the day and the company. Having had a bash at cider making last year, I learnt a great deal more, and both Cameron and Steve provided much needed knowledge in good time for this year’s batch
Thank you so much for letting me accompany you on the first part of your course yesterday. I really did enjoy it and was most grateful that occasionally we stood (I sat of course) and listened to your and Rose’s explanation of seaweeds (all edible but not necessarily delicious) winkles, limpets, crabs, lobsters and all thinks pertaining to the sea. As You know I was taken back to the car but my master tells me lunch was very tasty and much enjoyed by all. He also tells me that the afternoon was equally erudite and interesting. When he got home he could not stop talking about it to the mistress. Thought it was one of the best Christmas presents he had ever had. They are now looking at your mushroom course.
Just a quick not to say thanks again for making Saturday’s course so enjoyable. We both had a really good day and found the course informative and educational, but also really good fun too.
Just got home from Yorkshire, would just like to thank your good selves for the fantastic day my friend Derek and myself spent with you building a cob oven! It was a truly fascinating experience and the pizzas were wonderful! I would not hesitate in recommending ‘taste the wild’ to anybody looking for something different to do. Many thanks and good luck for the future, you are lovely hosts and deserve every success in your ventures.
A belated thank you so much for a fantastic day out last Sunday on the Introduction to Foraging course. It was really interesting, fun and the food you made was all so delicious. Thank you for your dedication to sharing your immense knowledge, it was truly inspiring. We are going to make a fish smoker this weekend, and I have spent the week scanning lime trees in Ealing in case there are still some flowers left over!
May your journey through life provide health and most benefit.
We just wanted to drop you a quick email to say thank you for the best weekend ever! We’re already putting our learning into practice, and making our own pontak sauce!
Thank you for a great day, great food and above all great company.
Many thanks to you and all your team for their hard work in making yesterday such a success for us.
Just to say a big thank you for last weekend. I thoroughly enjoyed the course, your hospitality and the company of all of your other guests. What a great bunch of people and how easy it was to get on with everyone. In particular I felt I’d known the two of you for ages.
Taste the Wild Locations
We are based in North Yorkshire on the beautiful Vale of York.
The exact location of each course will be provided on your booking confirmation letter. You will also receive clear road directions and suggested modes of travel (if available).
Taste the Wild courses focus on three different issues: sustainability, seasonality and locality. The core of our business is teaching people about wild food foraging. Our courses are run often from the same locations and so we collect wild edible plants from these same places throughout the season. As we teach and forage from these wild places year after year we teach people to look after the environment. We want them to understand the ecosystem that relies on the plants from which we are harvesting and only collect a proportion of what is there.