The Celtic Routes across the counties of Wicklow, Waterford and Wexford in Ireland and Carmarthenshire, Pembrokeshire and Ceredigion in Wales offer a range of food foraging activities.
Ireland
South Wicklow
Wild Foods offers a 3-hour foraging walk to identify wild leaves, flowers, fruits, nuts and mushrooms during the seasons.
There is also a 2-day Wild Foods Master Class at Brook Lodge & Macreddin Village.
It's the only regular course of its kind in Ireland and includes practical sessions and demonstrations given by the chefs of the village's Strawberry Tree Restaurant.
The Master Class covers identification of wild foods across the year, plus instruction on how to gather, cook and preserve using traditional methods.
Waterford with the Sea Gardener
The rugged coastline of County Waterford has seen a revival of interest in seaweed that prompted Waterford's Sea Gardener, Marie Power, to share her expert foraging knowledge.
Visitors can learn how to forage and cook with their seaweed finds, with events ranging from both beach and land foraging, beach picnics and cook-ups with their wild food.
The aim is to make the link between the origin and the consumption of food as short and as simple as possible.
Seaweed has always been an integral element of Ireland's food heritage and is undergoing a very exciting revival of interest.
Courtown Woodland Walks, Wexford
The seaside village Courtown saw James Stopford, the 5th Earl of Courtown, establish a pinetum in the grounds of Courtown House during the 1860s and 70s,
Trees remaining from his collection include a Californian redwood, swamp cypress, Japanese cedar, a cedar of Lebanon and numerous pines, yews and true cypresses.
Along the woodland walk is an abundance of wild garlic.
www.celticroutes.info/celtic-moments/courtown-woodland-walks
Wales
Llansteffan, Carmarthenshire
The Celts had a spiritual bond with the natural world and believed that the sea is a source of healing and cleansing, of food and wealth.
A coastal foraging experience along the Carmarthenshire coastline gives the chance to find prawns, mussels, cockles, wild samphire, sea anemones and scarlet elf cup mushrooms.
The village of Llansteffan is located between the shores of the Tywi Estuary and the Carmarthenshire hills.
There is a 12th-century Norman castle, which controlled an important river crossing.
The Glansteffan ferry service runs between between Llansteffan and Ferryside, a 1,000-year-old crossing.
www.celticroutes.info/celtic-moments/foraging-and-llansteffan
The Pembrokeshire Coast Path
The Pembrokeshire Coast Path runs for 186 miles from St Dogmaels to Amroth.
It covers almost every kind of coastal landscape, from volcanic rock headlands, limestone arches, blowholes and sea stacks, to narrow glacial inlets.
Lines of red and grey sandstone cliffs are broken by sandy beaches with an abundance of coastal flowers and bird life.
Trained chef, forager and fisherman, Matt Powell offers a foraging day that takes in hedgerow and shoreline plants and seaweeds and fungi.
www.theseagardener.com and www.celticroutes.info/celtic-beacons/pembrokeshire-coast-path
New Quay Harbour, Ceredigion
Cardigan Bay has a resident population of 250 bottlenose dolphins drawn by the abundant feeding grounds, undisturbed habitat and the clean waters.
It's possible to see dolphins all year round with best prospects in the summer when there's plenty of mackerel in the waters.
New Quay offers a chance you'll spot them from the harbour wall.
The breakwater at New Quay is a fishing location most months of the year, and it welcomes anglers of all abilities.
There's the chance to catch mackerel, garfish and wrasse withboat trips available to fish further from the coastline.
www.newquayboattrips.co.uk/tours/dunbar-castle-ii-fishing-trips and www.epicfishingtrips.co.uk