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Team building & Activities

Wild Herb Foraging

Yellow wildflowers blooming in a meadow with pine trees and snow-capped mountains under a clear blue sky.
  • Duration: half day
  • Season: summer - what you pick follows the month
  • Fitness: a gentle walk, open to everyone
  • Group size: flexible
  • Where: meadows and woodland around Arosa, then the Wildkräuterkraft workshop

The experience

There is a world of flavour, colour, and natural medicine growing in the meadows and forests around Arosa that most visitors walk straight past. A foraging experience with Corina Jäger, certified herb pedagogue and bio-farmer from the Schanfigg valley, changes the way you see every trail, meadow, and forest edge for good.

Into the meadows

The experience begins outdoors. Corina leads the group on a gentle walk through meadows and woodland, stopping to identify wild plants, explain their properties, and pick what the season offers. Depending on the month, that might be yarrow, lady's mantle, meadowsweet, spruce tips, or dozens of other species. She explains which are edible, which have healing properties, which make natural dyes, and which are best left alone. Everything is picked by hand, sustainably, and in small quantities.

Hands-on at the workshop

Back at the Wildkräuterkraft workshop, a beautifully converted vintage caravan set in a wild garden, the group moves into the hands-on phase. Three workshop formats are available:

  • Salve-making: blend foraged ingredients into natural balms and ointments to take home.
  • Plant-dye painting: create original artwork with pigments extracted from flowers and leaves.
  • Wild herb aperitif: tasting boards of herb-infused drinks and snacks, learning about each ingredient as you go.

Why it works for teams

For groups, this activity offers something rare: a pace that slows people down rather than ramping them up. There is no timer, no scoreboard, no adrenaline. Instead, there is the smell of freshly picked herbs, the satisfaction of making something with your hands, and the kind of conversation that happens naturally when people are relaxed and doing something unfamiliar together.

This works particularly well as a contrast to more physically demanding activities in a multi-day programme, or as a standalone experience for groups who prefer creativity and nature over adventure.

Back at the hotel

The afternoon hands over gently: back at Hotel Altein, the herbs come up again over a drink in the Alchemilla Parlour Bar, and the salves usually reappear in breakfast conversation the next morning.

Plan it into your retreat

Our events team co-ordinates the walk, the workshop format, and the timing around the rest of your programme. Send us your retreat dates and group size, and we will build the foraging experience into your programme.