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Magnolia & Maple Blossom Munchies Mid-March
This week I found Norway Maple (Acer platanoides) in full bloom, its zingy lime-yellow blossoms looking like they’d been dyed with fluorescent marker pen. Maple blossoms, apart from Sycamore, are edible and taste like peas. Yum! Norway Maple has leaves much larger than our native Field Maple (Acer campestre). Norway Maple has 7 pointed lobes,…
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Saucy Wild SALSA VERDE!
Full of the energy newly pulsing through our green and silent neighbours, I’ve been racing about my foraging haunts gathering fresh wild greens for Salsa Verde sauce. Salsa Verde sounds posh, but it basically means a Green Sauce (or paste) of wild greens and classic Mediterranean ingredients. The original Salsa Verde comes from the Aztecs,…
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Hedgewitch Kat’s Spring & Summer WILD TAPAS E-books Out Now
Hi all, letting my subscribers know I’ve made some seasonal E-books with my recipes from over the years of Foraging With Tapas courses. I’m having so much fun making these! Some pics from Spring Wild Tapas are below: Summer Wild Tapas E-book preview below! Spring and Summer are available in my online store at https://hedgewitchadventures.com/shop/…
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FORAGE Gorse & Jelly Ear, Meet Scarlet Elf Cup
Spring is really kicking off into a higher gear now. Last week I made a video about Foraging & Eating Jelly Ear Mushrooms. These common tree mushrooms have a brilliant texture, but a very mild flavour. Sort this by marinading them or adding them to a rich umami broth! Click the link above to check…
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FEBRUARY HAZEL POLLEN: Sweet or Savoury?
Identifying Hazel Over the last few weeks, male catkins of Common Hazel (Coryllus avellana) have been draping the bronzy twigs of our native small tree. They’re a welcome addition ot the otherwise muted colours of February. Hazel is monoecious, which means it’s a hermaphrodite. It has both male and female flower parts on one tree.…
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Making Bramble Baskets For Bushcraft Magazine
My latest article for Bushcraft magazine – how to make baskets from brambles. Great fun, also there’s always a prickle that gets ye! It’s out in Issue 117. Apologies for the coal-stained fingernails…the result of shovelling smokeless coal and wood into a boat stove all winter. xx Hedgewitch Kat xx
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H.A. Foraging Journal – February Week 1
Buds are slowly revealing their silken insides on willow. Sycamore buds glow green, Blackthorn is dressed in hints of bridal white. Sloes are still out though, and they’ve been nicely bletted by the cold. I can even eat a few raw without wincing. Sloe Recipes A Sloe Ice Lolly could be a good bet, but…
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Can We Eat ARUM LILIES?
This is one of those posts where I hope to ghod people read the WHOLE post. Like the one I wrote years back about Yew berries being edible. Read on to discover why the answer is both YES and NO! The answer to this very much depends on what type of Arum you are talking…
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Track & Sign Pt 2: Plantation Wood & Rushmere
Part 2 of my explorations of Animal Tracks and Signs. It wa a beautiful out, and I was lucky enough to stay out in the woods for a whole (school) day! I went to see the Ravens that nest in the top of a Redwood tree. Below is their grand home of last year –…
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Track & Sign: Pt 1
For a forager with the bare minimum to forage, it’s been really exciting this last few weeks to notice the signs of the wild animals in the countryside around me. I went on a day course taught by Lizzy from Pippin & Gile a while back, and yes, I can confirm tracking is both highly…