SEASONAL DAY
A FULL DAY ESCAPE | 10AM - 4PM
AT MONACHYLE MHOR HOTEL
WHAT TO EXPECT
BOOK YOUR ESCAPE10:00am – Meet at the RVIVAL teepee, located in front of the kitchen garden (just behind the car park and to the left of the hotel entrance).
Upon arrival, you’ll be welcomed with a morning brew and a RVIVAL briefing. Once you’re fuelled up and ready, we’ll take you straight into the action in the tasting room. Here you’ll learn how to respectfully skin, gut, and joint the wild meat of the day — skills that will also feed into preparing your lunch and afternoon tasting dishes.
Before lunch, we’ll head out on a foraging walk where you’ll be guided in identifying seasonal wild edibles, tasting and nibbling your way through the woods, fields, and meadows. Returning to the tasting room, you’ll put this new plant knowledge to the test, helping to prepare a two-course menu alongside our team of chefs — combining your foraged finds with carefully chosen staples from the kitchen.
After enjoying your wild-inspired lunch, the afternoon continues with a series of seasonal workshops at our outdoor cookery area. These sessions are designed to deepen your comfort in the outdoors, showing how the landscape can be both a larder and a workshop filled with useful natural materials.
To round off the day, you’ll take part in a wild cocktail workshop and tasting, followed by a final cook-off using a variety of outdoor cookery techniques. Expect to get your hands dirty, pick up the scent of wood smoke, and leave with skills — and stories — that will stay with you long after your next culinary adventure into the wild.
Just yourself, a refillable water bottle, and an open mind.
As many of our courses take place both in the barn and outdoors, often with a foraging ramble, we recommend:
Waterproof jacket and trousers – Gore-Tex or similar; essential items
Well-worn waterproof walking boots
Warm wool layer – especially important in autumn and winter
Gloves, hat, buff – autumn and winter months
Water bottle
Most importantly, bring a willingness to learn and step a little outside your comfort zone — whether that’s trying new skills, tasting wild flavours, or picking up knowledge you’ll carry with you long after the day is done.
THE SEASONS
Seasonal changes shape the abundance of wild foods that are available. Below you can find what to expect during this experience at different times of the year.
Spring Walk
Learn the importance of spring and how it can affect the rest of nature’s calendar.
This seasonal walk is about experiencing spring through a foraging eye. Learn about plants, mosses, barks, reeds, lichens, and much more. Listen to birdsong and the return of life after winter. Enjoy the finer details within the natural environment that show how important spring is for us all.
Birch sap water
This is a very special experience where you get to tease the “blood” of a birch tree.
Only in early spring does the birch pull water from the ground up through its roots. The tree then turns this into natural sugars before pumping the liquid through the cambium layer, along the branches, to drip-feed the poised buds waiting to become summer leaves. Learn about birch folklore, the history of this amazing native plant, and its stewardship within the natural world.
Wild garlic pesto
This will involve foraging for ramsons, learning about where they like to grow and their native roots, folklore, and medicinal value. Gain a deep understanding of this humble plant that has recently reached the modern kitchen table once again.
Nettle soup
Learn about the nettle and its history as a staple food within our diet.
The nettle has had a bad rep for a long time in modern life due to its stinging effect. But the nettle has been a life support for us throughout history, providing us with nutrition in times of shortage. Join me and learn how to gather and process the nettle for a tasty and filling soup. You will enjoy the nettle in a way that will give you an insight into its importance as a wild food.
After this day, you will never walk past a nettle patch again thinking of it as a “weed” - instead, you’ll see it as one of Mother Nature’s greatest gifts.
Tree Wisdom
Take a walk through old growth woodland and learn how to see the trees for the wood. A native woodland is an incredibly special environment.
It is one that holds great importance and is valuable to so much of nature. Often we see a woodland as one species, but very often a woodland is made up of many species that all have their own individual role in supporting a fragile ecosystem. By getting to know the trees and their uses/importance to us - past and present - you’ll leave this day with a love for trees and woodland.
Wild Teas
As plants gain strength and start to take on the protective tannins and saps they need to survive the months ahead, you can enjoy them in different ways. A great way to enjoy certain plants in the summer is as a tea. Learn how to identify, prepare, and store wild teas from different plants. There are so many benefits to drinking wild teas, as many of our wild plants contain vitamins, anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, and immune-boosting properties.
Wild Fruit Jams, Jellies and Compotes
Learn how to utilise many of our wild fruits and store them for later use throughout the winter. Often people don't associate Scotland with fresh fruits, but when it comes to berries, we have an abundance of tasty hill and forest gems.
Learn how to process fruits into jams, jellies and compotes that can be enjoyed by friends and family throughout the year.
Fruit Leathers
Autumn is a great time for harvesting ripe fruits that can be turned into tasty, healthy fruit leathers. Learn the process of turning fresh fruits that would otherwise rot into a long-lasting trail snack or a pot ingredient to give elevated flavour to a hearty gravy or stew.
Mushroom Foraging
Come on a mushroom foraging walk and learn about fungi and the extraordinary habits and survival strategies they have. During this day you will explore the diverse uses of mushrooms - from fire lighting to clothing, knife strops to plasters, medicine to folklore, food and teas. We will gather some different culinary mushrooms and cook up a woodland feast.
Dandelion Coffee
Learn about the humble dandelion and its incredible use as a coffee. The dandelion plant is steeped in folklore and history; throughout time we have turned to it for many uses, including as a coffee substitute.
Join Zeki in the ritual of gathering the dandelion root, roasting it, and grinding it into a drink that has the appearance and taste of coffee.
RATES
BOOK YOUR ESCAPEAdult: £270 per person
Child (16 and under): £180 per child
*Larger group bookings can be arranged - please fill out enquiry form below.
10AM - 4PM.
This is inclusive of a wild feast lunch incorporating foraged goods for your morning and sides from the Monachyle Mhor Hotel restaurant.
*Please note: this full day experience is available by request only and is subject to a minimum booking charge of £540.
A 15% discount is available for group bookings of more than four people.
Enhance your day further with these optional enhancements:
- Post experience exclusive use sauna - £120
- Wild Cocktail Master Class
- 3 Course Fire Side Evening meal
- Private dinings experience with Tom Lewis
A full-day wild food experience.
Guiding you from foraging to fire-cooked feast. Explore Monachyle’s landscape while learning to identify and gather seasonal, sustainable ingredients. Along the way, you'll pick up tips for incorporating wild and local produce into everyday cooking at home.
A nourishing reminder of where food truly begins
in the land, the hands, and the stories that shape it.
The day builds to a shared outdoor meal, prepared over the fire using the very ingredients you've gathered. With a focus on simplicity, seasonality, and connection to place.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Please bring outdoor clothing suitable for the season, including waterproof jacket and trousers, sturdy boots, and an extra warm layer. A full recommended kit list is provided above.
Not at all! We welcome any guests looking to escape for the day.
Nature is unpredictable and the weather really is out of our control, although we do try our best. We operate in most weather conditions — it’s part of the adventure! With the right clothing, you’ll stay comfortable. If extreme weather makes it unsafe, we’ll adapt the route, reschedule or adapt the day to an alternative experience, such as traditional skills. There will be a shelter set up during poor weather conditions.
Yes, families are very welcome. We’ll adjust the route and pace depending on ages and abilities. Children under 16 must be accompanied by an adult.
Yes. For a full day, you’ll enjoy fresh bakes and brews en route, plus a picnic lunch prepared by the Monachyle Mhor Hotel kitchen.
All of our bookings are private experiences, designed just for you and your group. We keep numbers small to ensure the day feels personal, flexible, and truly tailored.
At the RVIVAL teepee, in front of the kitchen garden (just behind the car park and to the left of the hotel entrance).
If you can't spot it - head to the hotel reception and they will point you in the right direction.
We aim to finish the day at 4:00pm.
At RVIVAL, we work with the very best specialists in their field — people who truly live what they teach. On this experience, you may be joined by Zeki, Eliza or Tom — each an inspiring and deeply knowledgeable specialist, and an integral part of the RVIVAL team.
Due to animal butchery on site, dogs or pets are not permitted on this escape.
Many of our courses involve working with wild meat, including butchery and cookery, so they may not be suitable if you follow a strict vegetarian or vegan diet.
At RVIVAL, we see this as an opportunity to engage with food in its most honest form — all of our game is wild, sourced in-house by ourselves from the surrounding landscape and treated with deep respect.
That said, we fully respect individual choices. For private bookings, we’re able to design plant-focused experiences that celebrate the incredible diversity of Scotland’s wild edibles — from foraging to outdoor cooking.
For pescatarians, some courses may also include fish from local waters.
If you have any specific dietary needs or allergies, please let us know in advance so we can adapt wherever possible.
Cancellation Policy:
Deposit
50% of the total payment is deemed as deposit at the time of booking. This deposit is non-refundable.
Cancellations
If you need to cancel your experience, the following charges will apply based on the date we receive written notice of cancellation:
- More than 40 days before the experience date: Loss of deposit and any reconnaissance costs incurred
- 40 days or less before the experience date: 100% of the total experience cost
- After the experience date: No refund
Rescheduling
Experiences may be rescheduled due to medical reasons, weather conditions, or emergencies, provided we receive at least 14 days’ notice. Rescheduling is subject to availability.
Additional Terms
Rates are based on individual, family, or group participation. No partial refunds will be given for unused portions of an experience for any reason.
Where a medical certificate is required, it must be signed by a qualified doctor. Standard cancellation charges will apply if a valid certificate is not provided.
We strongly recommend that all guests purchase appropriate trip cancellation insurance.
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