Edible Shores sustainable foraging

25/08/2026

The sustainable foraging experience has begun!
Book now for the upcoming experiences starting September to April. I am looking forward to this years slight change in the menu with some exciting new dishes
September is fully booked, but October to April have plenty spaces. I look forward to hearing from you
Carmen 0833087619 or [email protected]
Send me a message to find out more or make your booking
I’m taking private group bookings or you can join one of the existing dates.
I am also introducing a 2 hour mussel and kelp experience. There are no dishes served, but rather recipes to take home and prepare yourself
I look forward to hearing from you

14/08/2026

Bookings are OPEN 🌊

Come forage the wild shores of the Overberg with me — explore rock pools, learn the art of sustainable harvest, gather mussels, kelp and edible seaweeds, and choose between a short coastal adventure or the full forage-and-feast experience.

Two experiences. One extraordinary coastline.

📍 Pringle Bay, Western Cape
📞 Carmen: 083 308 7619
📧 [email protected]

Message me to book your date or gather a group and come make a day of it.

09/06/2026

My first flight in a tiny four-seater plane, a gift from a friend. As we soared over these mountains, I saw something I could never have seen from the ground. Enormous legs and feet, like sleeping giants, stretched across the landscape. The resemblance was extraordinary.

I wondered if those ancient forms had always been there, or if I had simply become still enough to notice them.

Perhaps mountains are like clouds, offering glimpses of stories to those who take the time to look. They whisper that the world is more alive than we imagine, that beneath the rock and silence there is an ancient spirit waiting to be discovered.

Maybe the giants are sleeping. Maybe they are awake. Or perhaps they are simply reminding us that nature has always been speaking to us, leaving quiet hints of wonder in the landscape.

For one brief moment above the clouds, I realised the mountains had not changed.

Only my perspective.

31/05/2026

Foraging for mollusks can be a challenge. You just gotta know where to look 😉😁

31/05/2026

Looking for mollusks can be challenging! You just gotta know where to look 😁

15/05/2026

14/05/2026

The wrack line is the line of debris deposited at the highest point of the tide on a beach. Essentially nature’s high-water mark.
When waves wash up the shore and then recede, they leave behind whatever they were carrying: seaweed, kelp, shells, driftwood, feathers, seeds, and other organic material. This accumulates in a distinct band along the beach, often visible as a dark, tangled strip.
Why it matters for foraging:
It’s one of the richest places to investigate on any beach. The wrack line tells you what the sea has been doing. Which species are present offshore, what’s in season, and how recent storm activity has shifted the ecosystem. You can find edible seaweeds like sea lettuce or kelp, as well as creatures like sand hoppers (small crustaceans) sheltering in the damp decomposing material underneath.
Ecologically, it functions as a nursery and food source. The decomposing organic matter feeds invertebrates, which in turn feed shorebirds. It also traps seeds and can anchor dune-forming plants, making it important for coastal stability. That’s why it’s important for it to stay there and not be removed.

14/05/2026

The wrack line is the line of debris deposited on a beach by the highest reach of the tide or waves. Essentially nature’s tidemark.
It’s made up of whatever the sea has carried in and left behind: kelp, seagrass, shells, feathers, driftwood, seeds, and the occasional dead creature. It shifts with every tide, appearing as a dark, tangled ribbon running roughly parallel to the shoreline.
For a forager, it’s one of the most interesting places on the beach because it tells you what’s out there. You can read it like a message from the sea, which species of seaweed are in abundance offshore, what’s been washed up from deeper water, sometimes even what the current and wind patterns have been doing.
On the shore, the wrack line often holds good finds after a big swell: cast-up kelp, sea lettuce, and various wracks (the seaweeds the word originally referred to). It’s also an important habitat in itself. Invertebrates, sandhoppers, and birds all work through it. In this particular picture, which is actually in colour, the natural light and clouds give it an image of a black and white picture.