FairWild Week 2026: Why Every Wild Landscape Has Its Own Story

5–10 October 2026

At the heart of what we do at FairWild is a simple question: what does it take to harvest wild plants responsibly? 

The answer, it turns out, is never the same twice. A jatamansi collector working the high meadows of Nepal faces different risks, different seasons, and different community cultures than a shea collector in Mali or a frankincense harvester in Somaliland. FairWild Week exists to make that particularity visible - celebrating the FairWild-certified partners around the world who are proving that sustainable, fair wild harvesting isn't a single template, but a commitment applied faithfully to hundreds of different places.  

This year's theme: Wild Wisdom 

FairWild Week 2026 centres on Wild Wisdom - the specific, hard-won knowledge held by the people who have worked a landscape for generations, and who know better than anyone what it can sustainably give. It's the knowledge of when a season turns, how much a particular slope or grove can give back without being depleted, and what a specific community needs in order to harvest safely and fairly, rather than a generic standard applied from a distance. 

That's the thread running through everything we'll be sharing this week: not a single story about "wild harvesting" in the abstract, but specific stories - specific ingredients, specific places, specific people that together make the case for why this work matters. 

Over the course of the week, we'll be exploring what Wild Wisdom means in practice — from a shared declaration by FairWild's certified partners, to the stories of specific ingredients and the people who harvest them. 

Get involved 

Whether you're connected to the world of wild ingredients as a brand, a supplier, a collector, or simply someone who wants to know what's really behind the products they use, FairWild Week is an invitation to look closer. Follow along this week, and share the stories of the wild landscapes and people you know 

You can find our toolkit, with social media templates, assets, and ideas of how to get involved, here: