FOOD and foraging will be on offer at Dunfermline's Outwith Festival for the first time this year.
The events will be held on Sunday in Pittencrieff Park, including cookery demonstrations and tastings in the glasshouse.
Food writer and expert Wendy Barrie will be there from 1.30pm leading audiences on a trip around Scotland, unveiling some of the country's lesser-known ingredients along the way.
Wendy is the creator of the award-winning Scottish Food Guide.
Fermenting expert Janice Clyne will also be on hand in the glasshouse from 11am for an interactive workshop and demonstration covering fermenting vegetables.
There will be a sampling of an array of ferments including Indian inspired carrot kraut, inflammation busting pineapple, turmeric, ginger kraut, spicy radish bombs and some brined veggies.
There will be Introduction to Foraging, Plants and Fungi guided walks through the Glen throughout the day accompanied by a knowledgeable forager with practical tips for safely adding wild ingredients into cooking.
The three guides, Graham and Christine Whitehouse of Whitehouse Foraging and Amy Rankine of Hipsters and Hobos are all members of the Association of Foragers and participated in the ‘Wildbiome Project,’ surviving exclusively on wild foods for a month or more.
For families there will be a Woodland Experience held at 11am and at 1.30pm with nature activities for children.
Experts from Forth Pilgrim will help participants to re-connect with nature through storytelling, woodland skills, games, foraging and sampling wild food.
Also on Sunday will be a hands-on workshop where people can learn to make medicinal infused oil using plants from nature.
The Herbal Medicine Salve Making and Oil Infusion event will be held at 11am in Pittencrieff Park and will show audiences how to make a salve which they can take home with them.
At 2pm forager and herbalist Stef Stewart from Oak and Wildflower will explore the healing power of herbal medicine and provide a guided and supportive relaxation session.
Gael Wilkinson of Kin Bees will also be hosting a session to talk about bees, honey and sustainability in Pittencrieff House but this is now sold out.
All the Outwith foraging events on September 10 are also listed as part of Foraging Fortnight, run by NatureScot.
More information and tickets are available on the outwithfestival.co.uk website.
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