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Vegetarian snack, a cup for herbal tea or hot chocolate or cordial season depending. A notebook with pencil and serviette, paper bag to gather your finds. You will have time to grab a coffee or tea, please bring a bottle of water with you, small bag, comfortable waterproof footwear, and rain gear if necessary. Please let me know if you have any food allergies or any requirements by email.

We hold private tours for as few as one-person mid-week and up to forty people. We have worked with many corporate groups, food business teams, International and national student groups. We love having scout groups, girl guides and school tours on our foraging tours. We offer special packages, some including foraged picnic boxes, three course lunches, workshops and collaborations with yoga, meditation, and other wellness activities. Nicole has a huge amount of knowledge on local wildlife and will teach Please email directly to Nicole – howthforaging@outlook.ie

Children are welcome and its generally half price up to 16 years old. We don’t recommend bringing children under 7 for the mushroom foraging as fungi come with many dangers. If it’s the case that you have to bring your children under 7 they must be accompanied by two adults for health and safety reasons. This doesn’t apply to babies in slings or buggies. Children are welcome on all other tours (bar fungi as above criteria) with one adult per three children. I love foraging with children and take many children’s groups out, a mother of three nature loving kids, I rather put safety first. We also hold family foraging events where parents & kids welcome.

You can take the Dart to Howth Station from the city centre or take the bus that will leave you at Howth village. Please allow yourself good time if taking the bus as traffic is heavy on the weekends. Bus to Howth H3 from lower Abbey Street. The Dart - Howth train station is the last stop on the northside line. If you are driving there is plenty of public parking.

We can't do refunds if you can't make it however you can always carry your booking forward for an alternative date.

No dogs please, unfortunately not permitted in our insurance policy.

We don’t recommend taking the foraged mushroom’s home as we will have, possibly mixed poisonous and edible.

No, we do not recommend this, however we will guide you on some safe taste tests on advanced tours.

How to safely identify several edible, inedible, and toxic mushrooms. We teach you about the life cycle of mushrooms, the mycorrhizal network. The four different types of mushrooms -saprotrophic, mycorrhizal, parasitic, and endophytic

How to cook and use wild mushrooms in delicious recipes. Learn how to make medicinal teas, hot chocolates, medicinal mushroom tincture, inks and so much more.

We do culinary and medicinal workshops, from foraged cocktails and liquors, to jams, cakes, pickles, medicinal teas, tinctures, fire ciders, home remedies poultices and balms. We even teach flower pressing and how to make your own cards.