Cooking

Wildfooding

Cooking

Recipes and techniques with wild ingredients from nature.

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Foraging Tours

Wildfooding

Foraging Tours

Guides to finding and harvesting edible plants and mushrooms.

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Herbs & Mushrooms

Wildfooding

Herbs & Mushrooms

Get to know the wild herbs and mushrooms in Denmark.

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Wildfooding

Wildfooding with Thomas Laursen — your expert foraging guide

Wildfooding is the platform under which forager and expert Thomas Laursen works. As a long-time supplier to the world's best restaurants, a collaborator and developer in many kitchens, TV host, podcast host, teacher and author of Denmark's best-selling foraging book, Den lille vilde, Thomas has inspired countless foragers and been a standard-bearer for wild food since the early New Nordic days.

Wildfooding offers first-class guided mushroom and foraging tours led by Thomas Laursen — a recognized foraging expert and communicator with many years of hands-on experience. Thomas is known for his sharp species understanding, calm teaching style and ability to make complex recognition intuitive through sensory training. On his tours, you don't just learn to find chanterelles, boletes and other edible mushrooms — you gain skills and confidence that last.

Thomas's deep knowledge of local habitats, microclimate and indicator species lets him pinpoint great growing spots and explain why mushrooms thrive precisely there. He excels at teaching participants to use sight, smell, touch and taste as reliable ID tools — tangible, safe and effective. With Thomas as your guide, you get clear, reassuring rules to avoid confusion, and nothing is eaten without 100 % certain identification.

His passion for good living and flavor turns tours into small gastronomic experiences. He shares recipes, preservation tips and tastings straight from the field. Wildfooding offers private tours, corporate tours and teaching programs — book a tour with Thomas and head home with knowledge, flavor experiences and confidence in nature.

Thomas Laursen

About Thomas

Thomas Laursen

Thomas Laursen is a passionate nature communicator, author, and wild food enthusiast. With decades of experience, he shares his knowledge about foraging, cooking, and nature's edible treasures through books, courses, and talks.

I believe using nature is the way to save it. If we don't care about it, we won't bother protecting it either.
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Mushroom tours

Mushroom tours with Thomas — a safe start

Experience a safe, educational and sensory mushroom tour with Thomas Laursen as your seasoned guide. On the tour you learn where and when mushrooms grow, how to recognize common edible species like chanterelles, porcini and other boletes — and you learn about the dangerous look-alikes. Perfect for beginners and for those who want to build confidence in the field and become safe mushroom foragers.

The mushroom tours combine practical field teaching, ecology, sustainability and culinary inspiration. Thomas chooses the location to match the season — deciduous, coniferous or mixed forest — to give you the best possible mushroom tour. Along the way, identification is practiced through sight, smell, touch and texture, and you learn to check the cap, underside, stem and spore color.

The focus is on the safe beginner mushrooms and the toxic species you must know — what you should never eat, and how to act if you suspect poisoning. You also learn about storage in a basket or paper bag to avoid condensation and spoilage, and what mushrooms can do in the kitchen. The tour often closes with tips on cleaning, preparation and preservation.

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Video series

Wild Food

Episode 01 Garfish

Thomas Laursen and Gordon Henriksen head out fishing for garfish together. It is early May and the time is right for all the fresh greens. On the beach, Thomas finds various shore herbs like sea purslane, wild onion and sea aster, and brings pickled bulbils from wild onion and pickled roses. It becomes a beautiful ceviche served on stones, eaten with the garfish bills lying on the beach — a memorable meal.

Den lille vilde

Book

Den lille vilde — Denmark's best-selling foraging book

Den lille vilde is a bestseller and a masterpiece that has helped many people get started with foraging. It consists of four small books that together cover the entire peak foraging season, each divided into open country and forest, salt- and freshwater influence — nothing short of genius for a beginner to reduce the complexity of nature to something manageable.

Your best start in foraging is Den lille vilde.

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