Jason Irving is an experienced forager, herbalist and ethnobotanist. He worked for two years at the UK’s leading supplier of wild food, Forager Ltd, as head forager. The job involved foraging a wide range of plants, organising a team of foragers in Kent and co-ordinating with foragers around the country to supply many of the country’s top restaurants with more than 200 different species of wild food throughout the changing seasons.

He then returned to London to complete a BSc in Herbal Medicine, which included 500 hours of clinical training. He worked for four years as a researcher at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew contributing to a project cataloguing the world’s medicinal plants and their names. Jason has contributed to several books and scientific publications on medicinal plants.  He completed the MSc in Ethnobotany at the University of Kent, and stayed on to do a PhD on the trade in medicinal plants.

Over the last seven years, Jason has taught hundreds of people how to find, identify and use wild plants in London and further afield.