Food Safari Ltd

£150 per head or £250 per couple

Have you ever wondered what makes the flavour of Orford oysters unique, how much milk goes into a traditional Suffolk cheese, or why East Anglian barley makes the best beer in the world? Discover the answers with Food Safari.

Food Safari specialises in gourmet Field to Fork days that take you behind-the-scenes at some of Suffolk’s best food and drink producers. Workshops go one or two steps beyond a traditional cookery school combining farm walks, wild food forays or fishing trips with hands-on butchery or fish skills workshops and cookery demonstrations; and always wrapped up with a gourmet feast, usually at The Anchor at Walberswick.

Events include:
Wild Meat Day - Game is abundant at this time of year and whether you are a country-dweller who shoots your own game or a townie more likely be found in the local butchers, you're bound to learn lots on Wild Meat in a Day. (Feb 6 & March 28);

Free Range Pig in a Day a visit to Blythburgh Pork combined with a pork butchery demonstration and sausage-making workshop (May 8);

Wild Food Day – we'll explore the countryside, coast and a domestic garden to learn to find common wild foods and mushrooms (May 1, June 19)

Cheese in a Day learn the art of aristan cheese-making at Suffolk Farmhouse Cheese (March 7 and June 27)

Catch & Cook – off-shore fishing, learn to prepare the fish with a chef and enjoy a seafood feast.(April 10, July 31).

Seafood Day - river fishing trip in search of lobster, crab and other seafood, followed by a tour of Pinney's of Orford's traditional smokehouse and oysterbeds. (April 17 and July 10)

Beer Safari - a new way to discover what goes into producing great beer. Join a guided exploration to learn about the key ingredients of beer and how it is brewed. With an expert guide, we will visit a hop farm, a malting barley farm and breweries. Along the way we will meet the farmers and brewers, hear their stories and taste their wares.

Children's Food Safari
This spring sees the launch of a new Food Safari gourmet experience days for children. Launched just over a year ago, Food Safari has received numerous requests from people to run its ‘field to fork’ days for children. Children’s cookery workshops are popular now but Food Safari will go a step further and give children (aged 6 – 12) the chance to make the connection between farming and food.
“Food Safari is a genuine and generous-hearted enterprise, that is properly ‘field to fork'” Hattie Elllis, Scoff, The Spectator.

Children will spend the day at Muck & Magic, a small organic farm near Southwold, Suffolk and meet the rare breed Norfolk Horn sheep, Red Poll cattle, Tamworth pigs and free-range chickens. Children will be shown around the farm and the small on-site butchery before having the chance to get hands-on making burgers and sausages. Children will also use local vegetables and salad and make some bread to be cooked in a wood-fired oven. The feast will be shared with parents.
Food Safari is working with local organisation, East Feast, to run the day. East Feast’s professional staff are experienced in working with children in an ‘outdoor classroom’ to help children to understand the basics of food production, seasonality and cooking.
Children’s Food Safari, April 11th and July 24th, Wenhaston, Suffolk and October 3, Orford, Suffolk.
Time: 10am - 3.30pm
Ages: 6 – 12 years, max number 15
Price: £75 for the first child; 15% off further children in the same family accompanied by the same adult. This includes an apron and a pack of recipes from the day.
Parents: Children must be accompanied by an adult. The price includes the adult’s lunch and refreshments.


The Anchor at Walberswick is home to Food Safari butchery and cookery workshops. Sophie Dorber, chef proprietor, leads the cookery workshops and provides sumptuous feasts to wrap up the day profiling great local produce and wild foods. Mark Dorber, international beer judge, shares his expansive knowledge of beer and wine and provides hand-picked selections to match each course.


Suffolk is firmly on the food map and its outstanding natural countryside and coastal beauty combined with an abundance of local artisan producers, farmers, specialist food shops make it a perfect destination for a foodie weekend or holiday.


Food Safari can create bespoke events for private groups, corporate away-days or family celebrations. Gift Vouchers are available.

Forthcoming Events:

Cheese in a Day, Sunday 7 March
Whitegate Farm, Creeting St Mary, Suffolk. £125/person or £200/couple.
If you ever wondered how much milk it takes to make a kilo of cheese or how the natural rind forms on brie? Then Cheese in a Day could be for you.

We'll spend the day with dairy farmers and artisan cheese-makers, Katherine & Jason Salisbury of Suffolk Farmhouse Cheese. We'll meet their beautiful pedigree Guernsey cows, see them being milked as well as seeing how the much-loved cheeses are made. We'll also spend some time making a curd cheese to take home.

Wild Meat in a Day; Sunday 28 March
Game is abundant at this time of year and whether you are a country-dweller who shoots your own game or a townie more likely be found in the local butchers, you're bound to learn lots on Wild Meat in a Day.

In the expert hands of Robert Gooch and Ray Kent of the Wild Meat Company, you'll get stuck in preparing your own feathered and furred game to take home; before enjoying a four-course game feast with beer and wine expertly selected to match.