Foraging with Diego Bonetto
Things To Do Lithgow, Lithgow, New South Wales
Learn how to forage for wild food, medicinal plants, and edible mushrooms with Diego Bonetto.
Discover the most common species growing in your garden, at the beach, in parks, and in forests. Find out how they have been used for food, craft, and natural remedies. Experience family, wheelchair, and pet-friendly strolls in nature, or join on an edible adventure.
Over 100 experiences are offered a year, following the seasonality of mushrooms, seaweeds, wild fruits, and edible plants. There is always something to learn about and taste.
Diego has over 20 years of experience presenting wild food foraging workshops in the Sydney, Illawarra, Blue Mountain, and Mid-Western regions of NSW. Offering bespoke adventures for your group or team, or just join one of the regular walks. Wild food awaits!
Diego’s edible adventures have received a substantial amount of media including a Gardening Australia appearance, and have been recommended by Marie Claire, GQ Australia, SMH, ABC, and SBS radio and TV.
Diego is the author of best-selling book Eat Weeds: A Field Guide to Foraging, published in 2022 by Thames and Hudson Australia
Come and join Diego on a walk to learn about nature and its bounty.
Services
From $50 to $80
Learn the what, where, and how of wild food at the beach.
Ever walked along the coastline and wondered about all of those plants, seaweed, and seafood?
Are they edible? How do you harvest them? How do you positively identify them? Are you allowed to collect them?
Join Sydney forager Diego Bonetto on a 3-hour workshop learning the what, where, and how of collecting a meal from the seashore.
Disabled Access
Carpark Family Friendly Non Smoking Pet Friendly - Enquire Public ToiletFrom $40 to $60
Take a walk in the park and discover the edible and medicinal plants living around you.
You will never look at weeds in the same way again after taking part in this workshop.
Join wild food expert Diego Bonetto on a 2.5 hours stroll in the park and learn about the most common edible and medicinal plants that surround us all.
This workshop will give insights into the abundance of edibles thriving in the Sydney Basin. Typical species we will talk about include: dandelion, sowthistle, ironweed, flatweed, farmers friends, and wild fennel.
Disabled Access
Carpark Family Friendly Non Smoking Pet Friendly - Enquire Public ToiletFrom $140 to $190
A seasonal edible adventure that sees a collaboration between renowned forager and environmental educator Diego Bonetto and stylist, designer, foodie and weed convert Marnee Fox.
Disabled Access
Carpark Family Friendly Non Smoking Public Toilet