Forager in Residence

Bonawe & Ardchattan

Forager Lucy Cooke [The Wild Cooke], and printmaker David Watt will be working together to creatively catalogue the wild foods of Bonawe and Ardchattan. Join us during this lovely six month project exploring the local landscape and waterways and help to generate a new resource to promote sustainable foraging and environmental stewardship.

Lucy starts her residency at The Ardchattan Centre Foraging Laboratory and is gathering a range of edible foodstuffs from the surrounding hillsides, shores and fields which she will dry, preserve and store.

With printmaker David Watt, Lucy is exploring ways to visually represent her finds and create the first publication of a new Forager’s Almanac which will encourage understanding of how to forage and protect, cherish and benefit from a plethora of species.

Get Involved

As part of of the Foraging Project, Lucy will be collaborating with artist, printmaker and tutor David Watt, to create a series of images that illustrate and interpret their research, creating a creative workspace in the Foraging Laboratory and through community workshops. They aim to explore the physical and visual properties of both freshly gathered and dried flora and fauna.

Alongside texts by Lucy in English and Gaelic, these visual experiments will be used to create series of embossings and prints using a variety of printing techniques to capture the essence of the forages materials gathered.

This work will inform the new Foragers Almanac, as well as a series of beautiful and useful low-cost multi-prints and limited edition fine art prints for purchase by art collectors.

Lucy and David invite you to join in to the workshops, foraging-outings, walks and other events where Lucy will guide participants to identify and gather edible goodness.

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Events

Foraging Lunch - 04 October

Join us on 04 October for the first Foraging Lunch exploring, foraging, tasting and celebrating the Bonawe and Ardchattan area.

Enjoy a two course lunch showcasing wild foods and find out how you can get involved.

£40 pp Tickets on sale now - please email thewildcooke@gmail.com

FREE Young People’s Foraging event - 21 September Sunday, 1 to 3pm

During the PopUp TeaRoom at The Ardchattan Centre

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