Great morning exploring some native plants and mushrooms in Asheville. Loved our group and Kat was a knowledgeable guide. Just the right amount of time and got to taste some things afterwards. We got a haul to bring to Rhubarb tonight so TBD how that dinner goes. Highly recommend for visitors or locals. read more

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We went foraging with Kat on our family vacation in North Carolina. She was AWESOME!!! Truly knowledgeable and kind taking into account group members who ranged in age from 59 to 86. We had such a blast learning about the forest and plants, and the BEST part was the simple meal she made for us at the end. I can highly recommend this tour and gal. Gina read more

Our group spent the morning with Christian (guide) and Steve (assistant). We found violet, dandelion, various mushrooms, plantain, jewelweed, mugwort, smartweed which we used in our dinner that night. The tour was informative and fun. Steve cooked up the mushrooms that we gathered and we got to taste how yummy nature can be. Definitely recommend it! It was a lot of fun and we learned a bit. Oh, they even took pictures for us. How cool is that? read more

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We did the foregoing three hour tour with Dimitri and Jessica. This was a special experience like we have never had. They gave good direction, had us looking for particular leaves and then trying them on the spot and describing the flavors. We then found several mushrooms and the group scoured for edible mushrooms. The depth of knowledge of these two guides was deep and interesting. We then went with all that we had foraged and they cooked some of the mushroom and herbs and we enjoyed it. They sorted through all we had harvested and divided it so everyone who wanted it, could take it home. This was a one of a kind experience in this area. read more

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Having forayed into foraging a bit before, I was so looking forward to this experience. Ramey (our guide) and Kelsey (assistant guide and "chef") made this tour fun, educational, and delicious. We learned quite a bit about mushrooms and were surprised to taste some surprisingly yummy leaves and berries. I'm looking forward to researching more and continuing to develop my skills. As suggested, We made a reservation for The Marketplace restaurant for tomorrow night and I'm looking forward to our appie prepared with our produce. We'll see how it goes. So far I've called a few times this afternoon and I left one Message around 1pm but I haven't heard back three hrs later. NBD except that I'm on vacation and can't be carrying the fresh veg/mushrooms around in the heat. I wish that drop off was handled by the foraging company . Regardless , a great foraging experience. read more

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The tour was so much better than we were expecting. Justin and Steven were amazing. We both learned a ton and got to go home with three kinds of mushrooms. So excited to come back at a different time of year. read more

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Such a cool and unique experience from beginning to end! It was educational, fun, and relaxing. We learned so much from our guides Alan and Steven, who were both a wealth of knowledge. We took our foraged goods (mostly mushrooms since our visit was in early August) to one of the local restaurants and had a great meal too! Definitely recommend this experience if you live in the Asheville area or if you're visiting. read more

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Our first adventure of the new year was foraging at Black Mountain, NC. No Taste Like Home is the largest foraging education company in the world, founded in 1995. Our expert guides took us into the meadows and forest for a three-hour gathering in perfect weather. Armed with the provided excavation tools and baskets, we found, identified, and harvested nearly two dozen edible types of wild mushrooms, berries, grasses, and roots. Then, the guides cooked some of the finds for a tasting; the rest we brought home to experiment with since the restaurant we had booked to prepare our free appetizer canceled on us. It was a gorgeous afternoon of sensory learning and enjoying the earth's bounty. read more

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Such a fun day of learning about what's in our "backyard" that's edible and their medicinal value. Educational and practical. Great activity for individuals, couples families or groups. Bonding through Gods creation and edibles. Hanna was super informative and attentive communicator. read more

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Great session today! Our walk was a bit rainy but our group championed through and we had the full experience. Pretty amazing to see how much bounty you can find in even a short distance. Christian and June were great guides with a wealth of knowledge. I was even more surprised to discover how something you might think tastes "okay" comes out with spectacular flavors when prepared the right way. Anyone looking for a unique, local, educational experience that is also good entertainment should check this out. read more

Fantastic fun foraging education. Don't expect to see everything. I went in early spring and had a fun experience. Every trip is unique. Guides were knowledgeable and considerate. We got a small taster at the end and a few bags of goodies to take home. read more

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The tour was very interesting but a couple things to note. I was hoping to find berries or things I enjoy eating but we mostly found various plants. The cooking part is not you cooking, it's the guide, which I didn't realize was the case. You also don't get to keep what you find- instead, it's all pooled together then divided at the end. It was pretty expensive for only bringing home a few leaves. That said, you learn about various plants which is interesting. read more

A great way to spend time with friends or family as you learn how to forage (pick wild plants and mushrooms) under the tutelage of a master of naturopathic medicine--who is also extremely funny and down to earth. We were greeted with a refreshing cup of mountain mint tea when we arrived, and ended our adventure with a delicious treat concocted from of our morning's foraging bounty, cooked on site! If you're visiting Asheville or the surrounding mountains, this 3-hour tour will fill you with amazing details about the bounty of nature, and you'll learn so much about the local flora - including how many common plants can actually be used to fill a plate or season a favorite food. You'll also develop a deep understanding of the environment and one's place in it, as well as discovering the magic of grazing your own backyard! read more

Fun, unique and great learning experience! Christian and Christa taught us so much about foraging. My husband and I were complete novices and our group also had some experienced foragers. We all had a great time and took home a large harvest. The appetizer at the end was delicious! read more

We had a wonderful time exploring and learning, Christian is very knowledgeable. It was nice to spend a beautiful morning in nature!

LOVE THIS! A friend booked a foraging experience for my wife and I as a birthday gift, and it was such a fun way to really get our hands on Asheville, North Carolina. Our tour guide Christian led us through the forest identifying edible mushrooms and greens. She was so friendly, funny, and knowledgeable. I would 100% do another tour with her. So inspiring! And at the end Christian cooked us a light meal with everything we found. read more

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Truly espectacular experience, learn so much about recognizing and picking the right leaves, roots and mushrooms. Justin was exceptional, his knowledge was incredible. Just amazing to be able to walk on the forest and pick the right mushrooms then go to the Aux restaurant in downtown Asheville and chefs Mitch and Gaven will cook a delicious meal using only your ingredients you picked up an hour earlier. read more

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The tour led by Allen & Ramy blew my expectations out of the water! Allen is the owner of No Taste Like Home & will be featured on Gordon Ramsey's National Geographic show (check it out!). Ramy is a fabulous herbalist and this dynamic duo was super knowledgeable, kind, and had a humorous way of teaching. We strolled the forests and explored edibles using all of our senses to identify. I loved learning about the medicinal properties of the plants along the way. At the end we had a delicious snack prepared using the ingredients we foraged. Such a worthwhile experience and we can't wait to come back! read more

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I really enjoyed our foraging tour. The guide (Justin) was extremely knowledgeable, and also very entertaining. We found a variety of foods to try including hosta shoots, nettle, hemlock, sassafras, sorrel, wild onion and much more. Steven, who partnered wit Justin during our tour, cooked up a delicious snack from our findings and we took the rest to Rhubarb in downtown Asheville where they prepared a delicious appetizer. Definitely make a reservation at one of the participating restaurants for the appetizer preparation-really extended an already memorable experience! Can't recommend this experience strongly enough read more

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We had a fantastic time foraging and left with a wealth of knowledge, new appreciation for natures edibles and some tasty bits to cook at home. Demetri and Kristen were great and made our experience so enjoyable. I cannot recommend this experience enough. We will definitely do it again when we are in the area. read more

Really fun and interesting experience! Natalie and Rachel were great. Learned so much and the tasters we had at the end were delicious. read more

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This was an amazing experience! So worth the easy hike for delish food. Justin was so incredibly kind and patient. He was more than willing to help us locate edible foraging! Best time ever!! read more

Went on a foraging hike with no taste like home. Its my second time going. I wish i remembered my two host because they where amazing.

We went foraging with No Taste Like Home today. It was a fantastic experience. We met up at 9:30 am at Buckeye Cove (they scout locations ahead of time and ask various property owners if their land can be used) and did some brief introductions with our group of eight. Then we got down to it. Our guide Marc showed us a few plants to avoid and a few to target and then let us loose for 30 minutes or so in the woods. We were equipped with baskets, knives and that bit of information and that's it. Marc called us all back after 30 minutes at which point we sorted our finds on a tarp. He went through everything that we gathered (and we gathered a lot of different plants) and told us about them, what was edible, what wasn't, what was a good source of nutrients and what wasn't, what had medicinal value, etc. He answered all of our questions. It was really informative and interesting. Then we moved to a different part of the property and were let loose again (afterwards he identified plants, provided info and answered questions). At the end of the session there was a demo of some food that could be made with what we'd found (we had a pesto and tea) and then we got to keep what we'd foraged. No Taste Like Home partners with several restaurants in the area where you can bring your foraged food and they'll prepare an appetizer for you with it (we went to The Market Place). The whole experience was great. If I lived in the area I'd definitely do it again. The property changes regularly and what you find changes from season to season. Definitely worth the time and money. read more

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I've done some farm tours up here, but there is nothing quite like this as far as finding out where food comes from. You go out into the woods with a tour guide and you pick plants and fungi to eat. How cool is that? So cool that Andrew Zimmern came to do it apparently. I went on one of their 3 hour tours on a Saturday morning. We all met out in the woods about 15 minutes from town. Our guide, Marc, showed us some poison ivy as well as a couple medicinal plants, before we even got out of the parking lot. By the time we were a couple minutes into the woods, we had all seen bunches of cool different mushrooms. Some, we found out later, were quite edible. We would go forage for a little bit, then come back, and go over our findings. Marc was very knowledgeable. After our 3rd outing the assistant cooked up some of the mushrooms that we found! Chanterelles and some kind of lactarious aka milk caps. We were told we could actually take some of our findings to The Marketplace or Zambra as well. All in all, it was a great time. read more

I absolutely loved this experience. I love foraging already, but I wanted to learn some new plants and mushrooms. I brought my boyfriend who is now totally hooked on foraging! Dimitri did an amazing job of being informative and funny. He kept everyone paying attention for 3 hours. The little meal they gave us at the end was delicious. Serious props to the Helen our chef she went above and beyond. This helped my mushrooming game, so I'll have more confidence back home. I will definitely tell all my friends and family in Charleston about it! If you are worried about the price it is worth every penny! Don't miss getting your finds cooked at one of the amazing restaurants that partner with No Taste Like Home. We went to Rhubarb straight from our tour and made it for brunch. They really made us something incredible! read more

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My family (wife and 10 year old son) and I had a wonderful time on our No Taste Like Home expedition with Ramey and Gavin. Getting to the meeting point was smooth, and both were super friendly, entertaining and knowledgeable about the plant life we foraged. We were lucky to find (with Ramey and Gavin's help) a few rare species of forest mushrooms as well as some other delicious and interesting plants, and returned home with enough forest finds to nourish us over a few meals during our stay in Asheville. And, Gavin cooked up a delicious plant-based appetizer at the conclusion of the tour as Ramey reviewed our finds to make sure all were safe to eat. The experience was really compelling for us as city folk hoping to explore a bit of the 'country' but our local fellow travelers also had a great time. Thank you! read more

We wanted to do something different for a bachelorette weekend and tried out foraging with No Taste Like Home. Our foraging location was near Addison Farm Vineyard, which was nice because we were able to have a wine tasting after a long morning of hard work (not really)! There was great communication from the company. We were well-informed of what to expect, how to dress, and so on. On the morning of the tour, we met up with the guide, Alan, at the vineyard and we drove to the location together since it was a little isolated. Alan is an amazing guide and a great sense of humor! You can tell that he is very passionate about what he does. He even recited a poem on mushroom. Throughout the tour, Alan would teach us what we can and cannot eat. He also made sure that if we didn't know something is edible, we would always ask first. This way, we would still be alive by the end of the tour. Although everything was new and exciting to me, I wished that we had more free time to explore and forage by ourselves. At the end of the tour, Alan even cooked up some wild mushrooms for us to try. The best part of the tour was we were able to bring what we found to a local restaurant where they turned the wild plants into two appetizers for free. Side note, after you are done, you will be tempted to eat anything see around you! read more

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This was one of the coolest activities of our trip. The guide was friendly and knowledgeable, and I was impressed by the number of plants we found and learned about. I especially loved learning about the different mushrooms we discovered. Excellent tour guide and experience. read more

Just a wonderful little tour, not too strenuous and very educational. Who knew there were so many wonderful edibles all around us?! Our family has used the knowledge to add flavor and variety to our meals and teas. The tour guides were very kind and answered all of our questions. Highly recommended. read more

What an incredible experience. I would love to know everything I can about how to "live off the land" and my partner loves to cook so I figured this would be a great experience for both of us. I was not disappointed. Our tour guide was Dimitri and he was assisted by Savannah. Both had great energy, knowledge, and were fun to spend some time with. Aside from foraging and sharing our bounty with the rest of our group, we learned a lot, got to have a tasting of our bounty before the tour concluded. We took some home and incorporated them into one of our dinners. I was so excited days after this tour that I took my dogs in the woods for a walk and ran home with the mushrooms I found on the way just to identify them. read more

Incredible experience! I loved this. I wish it were available in Dallas where I live.

Jillian and Joe were seriously amazing! The weather was dreary and drizzly but that didn't get our group down! Jillian led us lazily through fields and forests talking about each plant we passed, while nibbling here and there on leaves and twigs. It sounds like a joke doesn't it?! But that's truly what we did! We drank tea made from Sweet Birch twigs and snacked on Wood Sorrel (which tastes like sweet tarts!). At the end of the tour we came to a covered barn and Jillian sautéed us up some of our foraged finds paired with black walnuts and wrapped in a Sassafras leaf. I highly recommend this amazing experience, it was so interesting! Joe, took photos and offered up tidbits of information here and there to really round out the tour! read more

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This was a random Internet find just before our trip to Asheville, but I'm so glad we did it. I was a little concerned that it was going to be a touristy/low quality thing, but I was definitely wrong. It turns out that the foraging is in a different place each day, often on the property of a mountain/rural homeowner (with their permission/participation, of course). Our guide was Marc, and there were a couple assistant guides as well. There were maybe 6 other participants, and it lasted a full three hours. We started with a brief education session on things to definitely look for and definitely avoid, and then we were sent out to forage and encouraged to pick anything we thought looked interesting. We convened after 30 minutes and everyone put their goods out on a sheet. Marc organized them by family and discussed what was edible, ornamental, medicinal, and poisonous. We then went back to foraging, more focused than before, and reconvened again. My husband and I focused on 8-10 unique items including common things like violets and spring onions and other stuff that was new to us like chickweed and waterleaf. Then, one of the coolest parts of the experience was when we went into the property owner's home (a super cool mountain cabin) and prepared some of our edibles right then and there! We added a few ingredients to a pesto that Marc had started and turned it into an appetizer. We made several types of teas as well. We ended up taking some of our items to the Market Place for dinner, where they made us a cool appetizer. I can't express how awesome this whole experience was. Marc (and the other guides as well, I'm sure) has dedicated a significant chunk of his life to studying this art, and he was super knowledgeable. I was confident that he was guiding us safely. I'm not going to become a food forager long term, but it was still super interesting and a great way to spend a morning outside. It may seem pricey at $75, but I thought it was totally worth it. read more

"We had a great time! Rain & sunshine in the woods & fields made for a magical adventure. We learned so much too. Hannah was fun & informative. She really knows her stuff!!" read more

Amazing experience! I would recommend to anybody visiting the Asheville area, or like me someone who lives in the area and had no idea it was available. read more

My boyfriend, Chase, and I scheduled the ramp and mushroom foraging tour for our stay in Asheville. Honestly, this was a little adventurous for us because we had no idea what to expect! Needless to say we were not let down. We had two guides for just the two of us! Alan and Carrie were both incredibly knowledgeable, fun, passionate, caring & down to Earth (see what I did there??). We learned SO much from different types of trees, berries, plants, medicinal plants, and so much more! It was so exciting for me to be encouraged to try everything we came across as typically this would be a bit out of my comfort zone. There is so much information we learned that we will truly keep with us forever, aiding in our future forsges in Northern Illinois :) The jokes were funny, the guides were genuine and genius, and our findings were incredible. If we ever make it back to Asheville we will definitely do this again. Thanks again Alan & Carrie ( & everyone else at No Taste Like Home) for sharing your brilliant minds with us and others! read more

Wow, what a great experience! I couldn't recommend this more. So informative and fun, we ended up collecting so many mushrooms and learned tons about them thanks to our knowledgable, kind, and fun guides. The location we collected in was beautiful and the mushrooms cooked up soooo tasty! If your in the area, do it! Make sure you stay for Allen's mushroom rap! read more

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11/10. Becky was our guide, and she was exceptional. She led our group on a guided tour around a private farm / related area. She was extremely knowledgeable and very personable, which made the morning not only a ton of fun but also educational. We ended the session with a small cooking demonstration where we got to sample some of the food we all found. All around a great and unique experience I'd highly recommend to others visiting the Asheville area. read more

I thoroughly enjoyed the tour. We were very fortunate in finding several types of mushrooms and I learned a lot of information about other forest edibles as well. Hannah was so informative and patient, encouraging us to ask questions. I'll do this again. Thank you! read more