Outdoor Cooking & Foraging in Stockholm
A Three-Course Wild Food & Edible Plants Course
Cook over open fire. Forage in the forest. Share a meal where the ingredients grow. Just outside Stockholm, the forest stretches out. Pine trunks climb upward. Moss softens every step. The air smells of resin, damp soil and wood smoke. This is where the kitchen is today. On this outdoor cooking and foraging experience in Stockholm, you spend the day learning how to cook with fire and ingredients gathered from the surrounding forest. Together with a small group and an experienced outdoor guide, you’ll forage for edible plants, light a fire using traditional methods and prepare a three-course meal over open flame. Wild food is not just a means of survival – it can taste great too!
Highlights Outdoor Cooking Stockholm 
- Get inspired by your instructor’s enthusiasm, stories & seemingly infinite knowledge
- Understand more about the hidden world of edible plants and other wild foods
- Learn outdoor cooking techniques for different ‘wild-food-dishes’ over open fire
- Forage for wild herbs and edible plants in the Swedish forest
- Cook a three-course meal outdoors
- Light a fire using traditional fire steel
- Small group experience close to Stockholm
- Transport included from central Stockholm
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The Menus & the Seasons
We aim to use seasonal, local ingredients. That means we cook with what’s available. After all, the forest doesn’t follow a fixed menu! We make use of what grows, what ripens, what can be gathered that day. That means the experience shifts with the season. Early in the year, foraging plays a quieter role. A handful of herbs. A few sharp, green notes added to the meal. As the season moves into summer, the forest opens up. Flavours become fuller. Ingredients more generous. What started as small additions can become part of the main dish.
Example Forest Menu
This is an example of what a three-course meal may look like — shaped by the season, the fire and what we find along the way.
Starter
A slow-simmered soup built on local vegetables, cooked over open flame until the flavours settle and deepen. Finished with foraged herbs and spices gathered along the trail, and topped with a fried, crispy lichen — light, brittle and slightly salty, like something the forest decided to fry itself.
Main Course
Wild moose, seared & cooked over the fire until tender, served with a butter sauce infused with crushed juniper berries gathered from the surrounding landscape. Alongside, pan-fried potatoes and seasonal vegetables, caramelised at the edges and seasoned with a mix of foraged herbs.
Dessert
A warm apple crumble, baked slowly over the fire until the fruit softens and the top turns crisp. Served with a cream sauce, smoked by our selves, gently infused with vanilla and wild blueberries. Finished with a scattering of small forest flowers — subtle, fragrant and slightly sweet.
Outdoor Cooking & Foraging Experience: In-depth info
The focus of the event will be on fire making, identifying different wild foods, and cooking with them. We will forage some of the food that we will eat our selves, and compose our meals around with that together with what we prepped in advance. Our goal is that after the course you will have the knowledge, skills & tools to independently identify, pick and cook your own wild meals. The experience is practical and hands-on. You will also have a lifetime-lasting memory of a hands-on, useful and above all a FUN course!
The Forest Kitchen
Cooking outdoors changes the pace of everything. Instead of burners and timers, the fire decides the rhythm. Flames burn. Embers glow. Someone adds another log while another stirs the pot.
This hands-on outdoor cooking experience near Stockholm is about learning the small techniques that make a forest kitchen work — composing meals around what the forest provides, managing heat, choosing wood, preparing ingredients and working together around the fire.
The setting is simple: a clearing in the forest surrounded by tall pines and soft moss. But once the fire is lit, it quickly feels like a kitchen. And once the fire settles, the cooking begins.
Pots hang above the flames. Cast-iron pans warm slowly. Ingredients are chopped, stirred and shared between the group. Together you prepare a three-course meal cooked entirely over open fire, combining local ingredients with seasonal elements from the forest. The atmosphere is relaxed and collaborative. Everyone takes part — preparing food, tending the fire or simply enjoying the smell of smoke drifting between the trees. Think slow cooking, smoky aromas and food that tastes slightly different when eaten outdoors.
Foraging for Wild Ingredients
Before the cooking begins, you head out on a short walk through the surrounding forest. The Swedish landscape hides a surprising number of edible plants. Along the way, your guide introduces the plants, herbs and seasonal ingredients growing around you. Some you might recognize. Others you’ve probably stepped over a hundred times without noticing. You learn how to safely identify edible plants, how they change with the seasons, and how they can be used in outdoor cooking.
You perhaps won’t fill a basket like a professional forager.
But you’ll start seeing the forest differently. The walk isn’t about distance.
It’s about paying attention.
A cluster of herbs near a fallen tree.
Wild berries hiding among leaves.
Flavours growing quietly along the trail.
The quiet satisfaction of spotting something edible in the wild.
Lighting the Fire
Before the cooking begins, the fire needs to come alive. Instead of using matches or lighters, you’ll learn how to light a fire the traditional way using a fire steel and natural tinder. Sparks catch in dry fibres, smoke curls upward, and slowly the flame settles into a steady glow. This fire becomes the heart of the day.
Your guide will show how to build a fire designed for cooking — steady heat, controlled flames and glowing embers that can last for hours.
Outdoor Cooking & Foraging — Bullet Point Itinerary
Meet & Transfer
- Meet your guide in central Stockholm
- Short transfer to nearby forest area
Forest Walk
- Short hike through Swedish woodland
- Introduction to edible plants and herbs
- Basics of foraging in Sweden
Fire Making
- Learn how to light a fire with fire steel
- Introduction to fire safety
- Build a cooking fire
Outdoor Cooking
- Prepare ingredients together
- Learn outdoor cooking techniques
- Cook a three-course meal over open fire
Shared Meal
- Enjoy the meal around the fire
- Relax in a forest clearing
Return
- Pack up the forest kitchen
- Conclusion
- Transfer back to Stockholm
Included in this Wild Food Experience
Wild food foraging & outdoor cooking course
Pickup & drop off in central Stockholm
Three-course meal (dietary restrictions available)
Professional & friendly instructor
Fire starting course
Meeting point
We meet @ our Urban Basecamp in the heart of Södermalm (Tideliusgatan 62, 118 69 Stockholm).
Private: With a private tour you will get picked up from your accommodation.
Other important information
- Suitable for beginners
- Small groups for a relaxed atmosphere
- Please dress for forest conditions and outdoor weather
- We cater to most dietary restrictions and allergies as long as we know in advance
Booking
Our scheduled day trips start in the 2nd week of May and are held until the end of October. Doesn’t our schedule suit you? Send us a message and we’ll see what we can do!
Private bookings do not require an upfront payment.
Student- and youth discounts only apply with:
Student: valid student- and ID cards. Does not apply for PHD students. Max age 25.
Child: valid ID card. Max age 15.
Other tours in Stockholm
Want to see the archipelago but in a less active way? Try out our 1 day Sailing cruise or even our 2 day sailing trip. More interested in on-land nature? Check out the Off Trail Hike. For wildlife watching check out the Wildlife/ moose Safari . If you're into multiple-day trips we've got you covered as well. Check out our 3-day Kayaking Trip, the overnight 3-day High Coast Hike or our one night Nature Camping Stockholm tour.
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