Scottish Wild Food Festival

Foraging walks through the woods, a wild-produce marketplace and communal wild-food banquets, all set in the grounds of a holistic centre a few miles from Loch Lomond. It's a proper hands-in-the-hedgerow weekend — expect talks and demos on cooking with nettles, seaweed and mushrooms alongside live music around the fire.

Turn up solo and you'll fall in easily: the walks and workshops are built for mixing strangers into small groups, and there's forest-school fun to keep younger foragers busy too.