Opening period
From March to November.
Description
The Ecole des Saveurs des Bois offers outings and courses for people of all ages, to learn how to recognise, collect and cook with edible wild plants, in complete safety.
Do you love nature? So do we! Come and taste it with us!
At the Wooden Flavours School we share our knowledge of wild edible plants.
The places :
In order to help you discover the flavours of the local flora, we propose different meeting points:
- at home, in Gruffy,
- around Lake Annecy
- in the Regional Natural Park of the Bauges massif
The outings will always take place on paths or trails open to the public and open to all.
The activities :
Our short formulas (3h) :
- Apéro Sauvage: with the gathering of special wild plants followed by a cooking workshop without cooking. Depending on the season, we will propose pestos, plant tartars, fresh cheese with herbs or wild salads.
Our long formulas (7h and more) :
- Wild cooking: spent in the company of edible wild plants, with a walk, picking and preparation of a complete meal based on the plants you have collected.
- Wilderness cooking day: The objective of this course is to make you an actor of your learning and autonomous in the gathering of edible wild plants which will constitute the evening meal.
- Wilderness Weekend: (in a private or municipal secured area). The programme includes setting up the camp, lighting a fire, water management, EDC kit, first aid kit, safety rules, finding edible plants, preparing the evening meal around a wood fire.
Your providers
A meeting in Gruffy with Karine and Lionel, founders of the École des Saveurs Des Bois. One is an English teacher by vocation, the other a landscape gardener and ethnobotanist by training, and both are passionate about nature.
A slightly atypical background. ‘Coming from the south of France, from Marseille, we chose to move to the countryside, to a less dense, less urbanised area, to find ourselves more in touch with our deepest values. Big cities are not for us...’
Karine was teaching at a vocational lycée in Marseille before moving to one of the best lycées in Annecy. Passionate about singing, dancing and outdoor sports, Gruffy is paradise! Lionel, a freelance landscape gardener, spent 3 years training at François Couplan's Collège Pratique d'Ethnobotanique to learn all about edible wild plants. He also has a passion for sculpture and pottery, stone, wood, metal, bee-keeping and basketry.
The 2 of them decided to move into an old farmhouse at the top of the village of Gruffy. Their project: for Karine, to teach English in a different way, and for Lionel, to pass on his love of wild edible plants. Their targets: young and old alike, through outings and courses on the theme of edible wild plants.
Gestures for the environment
In this age of climate change, our association and ourselves are taking the ‘hummingbird’ approach: whatever we can do to save and protect the planet, we do. There are no small gestures. Everything is good. We need to rebuild the links between humans and non-humans. We have a common home, let's take care of it. Let's get back to basics. Let's be there for our children, let's grow a vegetable garden, let's recycle, transform, repair and produce things ourselves, and eating wild plants is an integral part of this initiative.
Facilities
- Outhouse
- Waste management
Price
40 € - Wild aperitif
85 € - Wild cuisine level 1
110 € - Wild cuisine level 2
110 € - Discovering wild plants in the mountains 1
220 € - Discovering wild plants in the mountains 2
180 € - Wild weekend
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