Foraging with Diego Bonetto

Come out for an edible adventures. Learn about plants, how to cook them and sit down for a feast.
Forage to Feast in collaboration with cook and stylist Marnee Fox
Fun, accessible walks and talks in nature, elearning about fragility and connection with ecologies.
Discover the seasonal abundance of wild edibles at your door step. Learn, connect, experience.
Learn how to safely harvest edible mushrooms in NSW- Skill for life!
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About

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.

What's Available

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Available Tours

Learn about edible seaweed and coastal ecologies

Seaside Edibles Workshop

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 three-hour workshop learning the what, where, and how of collecting a meal from the seashore.

From $50 to $150 per person

Learn about hoe to forage for edible wild food

Forage to Feast

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.

From $140 to $190 per person

Leran about the common wild edibles of Sydney

Wild Edibles Foraging Workshop

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 they will talk about include: dandelion, sowthistle, ironweed, flatweed, farmers friends, and wild fennel.

From $40 to $50 per person

Mushroom foraging in NSW

Mushroom Foraging Workshop

Join a magical day out in the forest where you’ll learn the how, when, and where of wild mushroom foraging. You’ll also learn how to preserve your seasonal bounty and enjoy a wild mushroom tasting. Your foraging guide Diego Bonetto who has 20+ years of teaching this skill under his belt, will take you on a wild food adventure in the pine forest, uncovering the details of where to look, when to move and how to harvest edible pine mushrooms.

From $95 to $130 per person

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Lithgow NSW 2790