WILD FOOD FORAGE & COOK
A half or full-day experience for teams
"We're not just looking for food. We're learning to look."
A group moves out into the landscape together. Over four hours you forage, cook on an open fire, and share a meal made from what you found. The experience is grounded, sensory, and genuinely collaborative — the kind of thing that changes how people notice things, including each other.
This is team development that doesn't feel like team development. Participants have called it "practicing stress-free management" — watching someone stay calm, creative, and in good humour while coordinating ten people around a fire, with nothing but what the forest gave up that morning.
"We've been walking this path for two days, but now it looks completely different — I'm noticing all the little things."
— Participant, men's wellbeing group, 2023
"A good example of practicing stress-free management — keeping calm and smiley under stress situations."
— Client feedback, unique-landuse.de
What happens
You forage together in the southern Black Forest — mushrooms, wild herbs, berries, leaves. Whatever the season gives. Back at the outdoor kitchen, you cook it. Not as observers — as participants. Groups work in teams, recipes are built around what was found, and the meal lands on a shared table.
Melvin leads throughout — briefing, forage, cook, close. The food is always good. What we cook with is what we found. Some days that's kilos of porcini. Some days it's a handful of parasols and what we brought to extend them. Whatever treats we find, we make the most of them.
The detail
For groups of up to ten. Southern Black Forest, based at Hofgut LEO. Accommodation can be arranged separately through Hofgut LEO. Bespoke sessions for larger groups or different locations by arrangement.
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