Top 46 Foraging Influencers in 2026
Foraging Influencers
Here are Top 46 Foraging Influencers to Follow on Instagram in 2026
1. Alexis Nikole Nelson
Bio 🌱 forager and outdoor educator
living in scenic ✨ OHIO ✨
*****@unitedtalent.com
BOOK TOOOOOUR ⬇️ Instagram Handle @blackforager Instagram Followers 2.9M Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Mega Gender Female Get Email Contact Request 236 Foraging Instagram Influencers with email contacts in a spreadsheet or csv file. Email us at [email protected] Email us
2. Gordon Walker
Bio Fungi phenology, photography, and cookery
UC Davis Yeast/Wine PhD,📍 Napa, CA
Published Author of:
“Passport To Kingdom Fungi” 📖👀 *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @fascinatedbyfungi Instagram Followers 589.8K Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact
3. Fern Freud
Bio 🌱 Foraging | Wild Food | Forest School 🌱
🍄 Helping You Connect With Nature 🍄
Join A Guided Walk With Me In Sussex 👇 *****@foragedbyfern.com Instagram Handle @foraged.by.fern Instagram Followers 579K Follower Growth (3mo) +1% Type Macro Gender Female Get Email Contact
4. Jordan Tony & Silvan Goddin
Bio Living with the Land 🌿🌾🥕🌽🦌 Sign up for future retreats!👇 *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @homegrown_handgathered Instagram Followers 497.8K Follower Growth (3mo) -1% Type Macro Get Email Contact
5. John Shahabeddin
Bio Your daily dose of peace and tranquility as Arthur & Sybbie show you the beauty of nature through the art of foraging!
🧒🏼🍄🟫🌿🫐🍄👧🏼
Download our app! 📱 *****@thegrizzlyforager.co.uk Instagram Handle @thegrizzlyforager Instagram Followers 392.2K Follower Growth (3mo) +4% Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact
6. Gabrielle Cerberville
Bio Forager 🌱 🍄 🧺
Author of “Gathered: On Foraging, Feasting, and the Seasonal Life” 📚
PhD @ UVA 2028
*****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @chaoticforager Instagram Followers 373.1K Follower Growth (3mo) -1% Type Macro Gender Female Get Email Contact
7. Megan Howlett
Bio Spending my days foraging in the South Downs 🌿 Teaching you how to identify and use wild plants ✨🍂
Work with me: *****@hotmail.com Instagram Handle @the_foragerscottage Instagram Followers 160.3K Type Macro Gender Female Get Email Contact
8. Colleen Codekas
Bio 🌲forager 🌿herbalist 🍻fermenter
🌸☀️ seasonally inspired 🍁❄️
---> connecting people to nature <---
❄️🌲exploring VT : Abenaki land🌲❄️
👇🏼Blog Links👇🏼 *****@growforagecookferment.com Instagram Handle @growforagecookferment Instagram Followers 147.3K Follower Growth (3mo) -1% Type Macro Gender Female growforagecookferment.com/fo.. + Follow Get Email Contact
9. Jesse Akozbek
Bio Foraging education for all 🌱
Download my foraging app 👇 *****@feralforaging.com Instagram Handle @feralforaging Instagram Followers 145.7K Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact
10. Barbora Batokova
Bio 📸 Capturing the colorful world of fungi
🌲 Nemophilist • 👩🏻🌾 Forager • 🍄 Mycoeducator
📚 Author of 𝘏𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮𝘴 • 🧠 Patreon *****@fungiwoman.com Instagram Handle @fungiwoman Instagram Followers 139.8K Type Macro Gender Female Get Email Contact
11. Dina Falconi
Bio Our Field Guide/ Wild Food Cookbook celebrates Foraging; Recipes; Botanical Art. Join this Tasty Culinary Adventure + Herbal Remedies + Plant Love *****@botanicalartspress.com Instagram Handle @foragingandfeasting Instagram Followers 135.6K Follower Growth (3mo) -1% Type Macro Gender Female Get Email Contact
12. Savanna Schwartz
Bio Foraging in Kentucky Instagram Handle @foraging_ky Instagram Followers 133K Follower Growth (3mo) +4% Type Macro Gender Female Get Email Contact
13. Danielle Gallacher
Bio Naturalist, forest gardener, & wild food educator 🍄🟫
Guided walks, workshops & seasonal retreats
Author of The Forager’s Almanac 🌀 *****@live.com Instagram Handle @danniinthewild Instagram Followers 126K Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Macro Gender Female Get Email Contact
14. Pascal Baudar
Bio Wild foods • Traditional food preservation • Wild clay ceramics
Exploring the relationship between (wild) foods & vessels
@wildcraftedceramics Instagram Handle @pascalbaudar Instagram Followers 123.8K Follower Growth (3mo) +1% Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact
15. Alan Bergo
Bio FORAGER | CHEF®
🍄🌱🍖
James Beard Award
Author: The Forager Chef’s Book Of Flora
New📕Coming ‘2026
Chefs vs Wild (EP2) @hulu
✍️ @ foragerchef.com
🏡 MN *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @foragerchef Instagram Followers 122K Follower Growth (3mo) +5% Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact
16. Indy Srinath
Bio Host of ✨Farm Dreams✨ @natgeo
•Forager• Farmer •
@wilhelminamodels @willy.social *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @indyofficinalis Instagram Followers 117.8K Follower Growth (3mo) -2% Type Macro Gender Female Get Email Contact
17. Jack Ball
Bio 🌱The best things in life are free!
🍄Book your next foraging experience with
Forage For Knowledge via the website, link below… *****@yahoo.com Instagram Handle @_forageforknowledge_ Instagram Followers 115.6K Follower Growth (3mo) -1% Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact
18. James Aloysius Mahan
Bio Foraging and Bushcraft in Maine. *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @sonofa_bear Instagram Followers 111.8K Follower Growth (3mo) +1% Type Macro Gender Male Get Email Contact
19. Max Martin
Bio Nurturing Belonging
🌿Foraging, Folklore & Nature Experiences *****@mindinnature.com Instagram Handle @mindinnature Instagram Followers 73K Follower Growth (3mo) +4% Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact
20. Johanna Koen
Bio (find me on substack!)
❋ Herbology student ✥ Wildcrafter & Community gardener & based in Edinburgh, Scotland
*****@outlook.com Instagram Handle @foraging.gardener Instagram Followers 68.5K Follower Growth (3mo) -1% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact
21. Tim Clemens
Bio 🌾🌼🍐Foraging Education
💡-Founder of @ironwoodforaging
📍-Minneapolis, MN *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @mnforager Instagram Followers 51.4K Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact
22. James Hill
Bio I teach foraging to connect you to nature and improve physical and mental health in the process. Public and private courses available. *****@theforagerwithin.co.uk Instagram Handle @theforagerwithin Instagram Followers 47.8K Follower Growth (3mo) +3% Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact
23. Bek Jopling
Bio Weeds eater sharing neat things I find outside
🌿
Deepening connection with the earth through wild food, medicine & wonder
🪲
Blue Ridge Mountains, NC *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @foraginghome Instagram Followers 40.8K Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact
24. Monica Wilde
Bio Forager, research herbalist, wilderness rites guide, author. Books & audiobook: ‘The Wilderness Cure’ & ‘Free Food’. Founder of the Wildbiome Project. *****@monicawilde.com Instagram Handle @monicawilde Instagram Followers 39.7K Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact
25. Marie Viljoen
Bio Botanically Inclined 🌿🗽
Mycologically Motivated 🍄
Foraging, Flowers and the Pursuit of Flavor 🔪🌸 🥣
👇🏽 Forage Walks, Books, Etc. Instagram Handle @marie_viljoen Instagram Followers 36.7K Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact
26. Robin Harford
Bio I guide people in Domei, a practice of botanical attention. New book - THE WAY OF DOMEI - launches soon. Get notified. Click the link. *****@eatweeds.co.uk Instagram Handle @robinharfordofficial Instagram Followers 33.8K Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact
27. Laura Nicole Monnett
Bio 210,000 followers on TikTok 🌹
Forager 🌿 Herbalism ❤️ Author 📖 KY
My art: 🎨 @flowers_wings_treasured_things
My poetry: 📖 @laura_monnett_poetry *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @rose_under_cypresses Instagram Followers 27.6K Follower Growth (3mo) -1% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact
28. Lisa Cutcliffe
Bio Wild food foraging in the UK. Courses on identifying, using, fermenting, preserving & cooking edible wild fungi, seaweeds, plants, meats & seafood ♡ *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @eduliswildfood Instagram Followers 23.7K Follower Growth (3mo) -1% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact
29. Dr. Mark Vorderbruggen
Bio Dr. Mark "Merriwether" Vorderbruggen
🍀Foraging Instructor +20y
💥Ph.D. Chemist
💻Author - books, magazines, blogs *****@foragingtexas.com Instagram Handle @merriwetherforager Instagram Followers 19.6K Follower Growth (3mo) +3% Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact
30. Ben Brumagne
Bio Wild food education, events & travels
Mushrooms & plants
Based in Belgium 🇧🇪
Author of 'het wildplukboek'
Founder @benbrumagne
🏕️👨👩👧👦🌿 *****@foresttoplate.com Instagram Handle @forest2plate Instagram Followers 18.4K Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact
31. Mark Williams
Bio Foraging guide/author/mentor/consultant
Guided walks,Adventures,Webinars featuring
🌿Plants 🍄Fungi 🪸Seaweed
🍸Wild Cocktails
⬇️Book events/buy the book *****@gallowaywildfoods.com Instagram Handle @markwildfood Instagram Followers 16.9K Follower Growth (3mo) +2% Type Micro Gender Male gallowaywildfoods.com/foragi.. + Follow Get Email Contact
32. Liz Knight
Bio Foraging courses in the Black Mountains & beyond. My Books: Forage / Buds and Blossoms / Wild Drinks. Botanical Ambassador @blueskybotanics *****@foragefinefoods.com Instagram Handle @foragefinefoods Instagram Followers 16.7K Follower Growth (3mo) +1% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact
33. Jess Starwood
Bio Just an artist that had an epic 10 year side quest into wild food.
WITCHZ KVLT Street Team 🖤🫶🏼
Instigator of @arizona.kvlt Instagram Handle @jess.starwood Instagram Followers 14.1K Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact
34. Lorelle Morel
Bio Forest Ecology and Foraging Educator in Oregon🌲 *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @lorellemorel Instagram Followers 11.9K Follower Growth (3mo) -1% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact
35. Ellen Zachos
Bio I’m a gardener by profession, a forager by nature, and a cook by necessity. Why necessity Because I love to eat. *****@backyardforager.com Instagram Handle @thebackyardforager Instagram Followers 11.2K Follower Growth (3mo) +1% Type Micro Gender Female Get Email Contact
36. Matthew Nevitt
Bio Wild Foraging Guide & Supplier in Washington, Oregon & California. Forager for the best Chefs in the PNW and beyond.
Forager @nomacph (2026) *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @wild.foragers Instagram Followers 8.6K Follower Growth (3mo) +1% Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact
37. John Rensten
Bio Author of The Edible City : A year of wild food. Foraging events in London, Dorset and The New Forest : all details at *****@foragelondon.co.uk Instagram Handle @foragelondon Instagram Followers 7.2K Follower Growth (3mo) +1% Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact
38. Caroline Davey
Bio Botanist 🍃 Forager 🍃 Chef
Living life on the wild side 🍁
Edible plants 🌱 Forest bathing 🌳
Courses 🍂 Ecological Consultant 🌲 *****@fathen.org Instagram Handle @fat.hen.forager Instagram Followers 4.6K Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact
39. Rob Gould
Bio I see foraging as a way of getting people to think about and develop a greater love, appreciation and understanding of the natural world around them *****@cotswoldforager.co.uk Instagram Handle @cotswoldforager Instagram Followers 4.5K Follower Growth (3mo) +1% Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact
40. Emma Gunn
Bio https://www.nevermindtheburdocks.co.uk
https://www.heligan.com/events-at-heligan/designing-gardens-with-edimentals/ Instagram Handle @emmatheforager Instagram Followers 3.6K Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact
41. Andrea Burnand
Bio 🍄 Foraging Wanders & Workshops
✨Wild Food Alchemist
☯️ Therapist @hands_on_holistics_
👥 Private Bookings, Events & Festivals
🧡 DM to collab
👇 Join me *****@icloud.com Instagram Handle @pickleandbrew Instagram Followers 3.6K Follower Growth (3mo) +3% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact
42. Tracey Christie
Bio Tee, forager chef
🌱Always in the woods..
🌱Catering your wild food event
🌱Foraging for mental health
🌱’Wild Food Wisdom’
🌱DM to collab
🌱Link 👇🌱☺️🍄 *****@yahoo.co.uk Instagram Handle @carawayandsorrel Instagram Followers 3K Follower Growth (3mo) +6% Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact
43. Liza Stirling
Bio Wild Food and nature enthusiast, sharing my journey of discovery.
All my own photos. #nofilters
#forager #mycophile #plantlover
Author of *****@theforagingfoodie.co.uk Instagram Handle @the_foragingfoodie Instagram Followers 2.2K Type Nano Gender Female Get Email Contact
44. Whitney Johnson
Bio 🍄 Appalachian Mushroom Qween (KY)
🍐 Pawpaw Princess
🌱 Ramp Tramp
🐀 Possum Queen 2024
More Info Below👇🏽 *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @appalachian_forager Instagram Followers 189.8K Follower Growth (3mo) +11% Type Macro Gender Female Get Email Contact
45. Orion Aon
Bio Orion Aon
Content Creator | Wild Food Educator
Links below! 👇 *****@gmail.com Instagram Handle @foragecolorado Instagram Followers 80.9K Follower Growth (3mo) -1% Type Micro Gender Male Get Email Contact
46. Gavin Ireland
Bio 🍒 Learn 2 identify edible plants & mushrooms
🥗 Learn 2 forage wild food safely
👇 Learn 2 make great food & drink
Follow me & join the mailing list *****@foundfood.co.uk Instagram Handle @foundfooduk Instagram Followers 8.3K Follower Growth (3mo) -3% Type Nano Gender Male Get Email Contact