Woodoaks Farm

LUCY WILLIAMSON WORKSHOP - Gut Health and Harmony: Slowing down with fermenting
2026-06-15 19:00 - 21:00 UTC | THE BLACK BARN, Woodoaks Farm, Maple Cross, Hertfordshire, WD3 9XQ, United Kingdom
A farm-to-gut experience with nutritionist and Soil to Gut author Lucy Williamson.
Step onto the farm and reconnect with your food, your gut, and the land. In this immersive workshop, you’ll discover how diverse, real foods nourish your microbiome and why the health of our soil is deeply linked to our own wellbeing.
Guided by Lucy, you’ll explore the powerful relationship between farming, nutrition, and gut health, leaving with practical insights and a renewed connection to how you eat and live. We’ll walk, talk and share good food together!
Now in their fourth year, these popular workshops offer a unique blend of expert knowledge, real-life application, and meaningful connection
This workshop will explore:

How fermented foods work with your gut health and wider emotional wellbeing benefits

Stress – its impact and how to find calm

Getting the most benefit from your gut brain axis

Time saving ideas for gut healthy food!

Is this for you?
Whether you’ve been before or are joining us for the first time, this workshop will give you a firm grounding in gut health and how we can draw on our gut brain axis to support varying symptoms and emotions from digestion to stress and sleep as well as wonderful food choices!

What’s Included:
🤎 Expert gut health and nutrition advice from registered nutritionist Lucy Williamson, practical and inspiring!
🧑‍🌾 Hear straight from our local grower Wild farm, Radlett and sample their seasonal produce!
🖊️ Session worksheet to help you visualise a fresh new approach to getting food to help your health thrive!
🍃 A relaxing 20-minute farm stroll
🍽️ Shared tasters around our table together while we explore the evening’s nutrition topic
You’ll Leave With:
✅ A grounding in nutrition and gut health…
✅ The evening’s ferment recipe and a lovely sample of Willy’s raw apple cider vinegar
✅ Practical new ideas inspired by your worksheet
✅ New friends!
✅ A greater understanding of the food producers and growers in our local community and beyond.

LUCY WILLIAMSON NUTRITION WORKSHOP - On the Pulse with your Gut Health!
2026-09-07 19:00 - 21:00 | THE BLACK BARN, Woodoaks Farm, Maple Cross, Hertfordshire, WD3 9XQ, United Kingdom
Come along and find out all about beans and pulses, one of or most sustainable and nutrient-dense foods!
A farm-to-gut experience with nutritionist and Soil to Gut author Lucy Williamson.
Step onto the farm and reconnect with your food, your gut, and the land. In this immersive workshop, you’ll discover how diverse, real foods nourish your microbiome and why the health of our soil is deeply linked to our own wellbeing.
Guided by Lucy, you’ll explore the powerful relationship between farming, nutrition, and gut health, leaving with practical insights and a renewed connection to how you eat and live. We’ll walk, talk and share good food together!
Now in their fourth year, these popular workshops offer a unique blend of expert knowledge, real-life application, and meaningful connection.
Full Details of workshop coming soon!

FORAGING WALKS WITH FLAVOUR FRED
2026-09-12 10:00 - 12:30, 2026-10-10 10:00 - 12:30, 2026-11-07 09:30 - 12:00, 2026-11-07 10:00 - 12:30 | Woodoaks Farm, Woodoaks Farm, Maple Cross, Hertfordshire, WD3 9XQ, United Kingdom
Take a walk on the wild side with Flavour Fred
These 2.5-hour walks introduce you to foraging for wild flavours, covering rules, identification techniques, responsible and respectful foraging, soil health, folklore and the history of wild ingredients. You’ll learn how to identify seasonal ingredients and compare them to their dangerous counterparts. Throughout the walk, FLAVOUR FRED will demonstrate preservation techniques and create tasty wild ingredients for home use, along with a few tastings.
