Totally Wild UK Bewertungen 

Cancelled the event at short notice. Given the other reviews on here I wonder if cancelling & offering vouchers is a deliberate strategy.

I bought the experience for my father's 70th birthday and they cancelled the day before, and they also accidentally sent him an email for another course that was cancelled as well.

I ended up getting a refund from Virgin Experience Days.

Be warned that there's a high chance that your experience will be cancelled by Totally Wild

Wow what a fab day!! A day learning how to forage followed by a 4 course meal based on all our foraging finds. Amazingly educational, eye opening and inspirational, all based on plants that you can easily find, would recommend to anyone!! Thank you Josh for your amazing knowledge and expertise. 💕💕💕 Jo and Ali

Really enjoyed the foraging experience day. Something very different, we learnt lots, had a very engaging and interesting guide (Brooke at Cannock). Very accommodating to any questions or any direction the group wanted the tour to go in, food was fab, and felt comfortable the whole time. Tour started late due to hosts car troubles, however the group was offered an additional hour at the end of the tour to make up for it. We left happy and would recommend for a fun and interesting day.

Course got cancelled twice due to circumstances out of either sides control, so we waited two years and paid £140 for a foraging guide who had never been to the site before which was full of dog poo and next to a main road, guide was friendly but the whole experience felt hugely underwhelming for the money paid, then emailed into customer services who just ignored our email, won't be recommending to others

UPDATE: They emailed me back offering a full refund and an apology for our experience which we accepted, this was on 11th July, they have now been ignoring us since then despite multiple follow up emails

This was a fantastic experience. I bought it as a Xmas gift for my husband. We went to swinsty reservoir Harrogate (a lovely place) our leader Fez was so knowledgeable and enthusiastic. He appeared to livevand breathe foraging and was the perfect person to lead especially as he was an ex chef too. Which was useful when we were cooking some of our foraging. The day was so enjoyable, we were there for 6 hours but Fez was continously interesting and held everyone's attention. It was excellent and I'd definitely recommend the forage and cook experience.

Great day out. Very relaxing and great food. Brook, the forager, was brilliant. Enthusiastic, knowledgeable and funny. Kept us entertained and fed us well.
Kimchi Tapenard! You need to market that. It’s beautiful.

Fascinating day learning a huge amount about the plants around us, edible and otherwise. Knowledgable friendly guide in Aaron who has the patience of a Saint answering all our questions!

Website still down - guess the company is no longer trading

Unable to book anything or use my vouchers. Chat is not able to resolve the issue and there is no other contact details. I am moving my vouchers to a different experience.

What an amazing day. Alastair the foraging guide was brilliant. Super knowledgeable,funny and charming. I learnt loads and will definitely be booking another course . The forest was full of amazing food and the food we picked and cooked was delicious. I couldn't recommend it more

I have a voucher for their foraging course, but their website is buggy, checkout doesn't work and their email just bounced. They may have gone under, I would avoid spending any money with them.

Had an absolutely awesome time foraging at Horsenden Hill! Cameron was super friendly, engaging and knowledgeable. Especially grateful to him for coming down from the lake district!

My husband, daughter and I had a great time foraging around Rufford Abbey. Our experts (and they really were. Definitely knew their stuff), Fez and Ian were brilliant, so informative and gave us such a good insight into a totally different world.
Would highly recommend. A real opportunity to get close to nature and take time away from the rat race.
We were part of a group of 15 like minded people who at the end were treated to a foraged picked delight.
Many thanks for such a lovely day.

I was due to attend a Totally Wild event with my partner in early November. In the week before she was extremely ill & it would be unsuitable to attend a public food event with others.
Despite numerous attempts to contact TW via all recommended channels I received no response until 2 hours prior to the event (8am Saturday) suggesting that we transfer the vouchers to others & no other option was available.
This is despite the message from Dougie the Chatbot on their website that clearly indicated that a voucher for a future event would be available if a late cancellation due to illness was necessary.
On following up I was grudgingly offered a single voucher as recompense, hardly suitable for an experience purchased for 2!
I can offer no insight to the events themselves but based on the pathetic contact and communication from TW I would have very low expectations.
So far £140 has been foraged from my bank account, I've received nothing in return and am left feeling Totally Disappointed 😞

We did the foraging event at Grizedale Forest with our leader Chris. From the first emails the event was well organised with excellent directions and communication. We met up in the visitor centre and went through introductions then set off on a walk round the forest. Chris pointed out edible plants and showed how to identify them, importantly also, what they might be confused with. We harvested some to use later. He was quick to answer any questions and explain how the plants could be used (making flavoured alcohol was a high point for me!!). Having collected several baskets of “produce” we returned to the centre where Chris set up a field kitchen and cooked us a delicious lunch, plenty of it and really filling. Highly recommended!! Couple of minor bits of information if you go to the Grizedale location (which is excellent), the last 5 miles are along narrow and partially single track roads so might take a bit longer in high season and if you’re coming from the North ignore any siren calls from the Sat Nav to use the Hawkshead Ferry and use the Barrow road to Newby Bridge.

Ridiculously long intro. My feet were starting to ache from standing still listening for 30 minutes. Seemed like a time-wasting tactic.
Guide seemed bored of himself throughout.
Food was sad with few foraged elements. Only saving grace was the beautiful forest.

Booked my experience via a third party using an ‘eco experience’ voucher I’d received as a gift. All very easy to arrange using a code etc. Totally Wild were in touch via email to keep me updated on the arrangements. Prior to the day we were also given a contact number for our event leader, just in case we were delayed etc. This was really helpful.
The event was led by Hazel, at Delamere Forest. There were 12 of us, plus Hazel. A mixture of ages, gender, localities and past experiences regarding foraging. Hazel was very knowledgeable and put this across in a very accessible way, she also made a point of including everyone and valuing their contributions. We were given plenty of opportunity to make decisions about the type of terrain/likely finds throughout the day. As with any activity of this nature nothing can be guaranteed, especially in light of the changeable weather we’ve had of late. With each find Hazel got us to use our observational skills, particularly our senses. She expanded on this with her knowledge and experience, linking in to any relevant science and research. The format she used was really helpful for comparing varieties with edible/deadible in mind. She also gave info on the possible food and medicinal properties of the finds and we were given frequent opportunities to look for items ourselves based on what we had learned. I also liked how she acknowledged the cultural associations and significance of a number of the items.This helped to give a more rounded knowledge, reminding us of the historical nature of foraging.
On the day we discovered; a range of fungi (though ironically the edible one was found after the cooking/eating session), a number of edible leaves, and elderberry, all in just one or two areas of this huge (and very beautiful) location.
When it came to preparing the meal - a risotto, mixed salad and fruit based dessert - we were all included in the various tasks. This reinforced the friendly, sociable element of the day, and it was a real bonus. Hazel provided reference material so that we could have a go at identifying the fungi we had found. Additional foods had been brought along by Hazel, some of which had been made using foraged items. I found these particularly useful and will definitely have a go at making the cordial and fruit vinegars.
All in all an excellent day and I’d thoroughly recommend it. In fact I’ve already passed detail on to a couple of friends.

Our guide Mike was fantastic and i would definitely contact him again for many more trips and private events, HOWEVER, i would do this independently and NOT via Totally Wild UK. Extremely poor customer service and no support with anything except a standardised email. They are simply middle men - Mike was the only element of the experience worth paying for - TOTALLLY WILD were irrelevant to the whole experience. The food box they provided was not pleasant and had nothing to do with native British food - we have pre-packaged Kimchi that wasn't even naturally fermented but instead full of additives that the idea of foraging is completely against. The rest of the food was extremely low quality and refreshments were ridiculous. Given we paid for a a full 4 course meal it was extremely disappointing. I won't be using them again.

We had a great experience with Al on the Friston Forest, Sussex, foraging course. He was friendly and entertaining and had a wealth of knowledge about wild edibles and how to eat and cook with them. His background chef knowledge made him very enthusiastic about specific tastes. We learnt a great deal about how many of the wild plants around us can be used in this way.