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FLOWER POWER :H.A.Foraging Journal July Pt 1
June and July are such busy months for the forager! Below are some things you might like to try that I’ve been doing. 1.Fortify yourself with St John’s Wort! I infused some St John’s Wort, the Midsummer Flower according to Shakespeare’s ‘Midsummer Nights Dream’. I infused it in lemon gin. I actually don’t like gin,…
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Herbal Medicine Course & Sept Foraging links 2025 update
Hi all, to make my posts more interesting and less about ticket links, I’m moving the ticket links and course info to my blog Pages area. If you’re inspired and want to come on a course, check Pages where the names of the courses will be up. Click on them for ticket links. Here’s the…
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Nettle Seed Potato Bites, Wild Spicy Kimchi Egg Sticks, Elderflower Jelly
Last Sun 15th June forage was a quiet but fun one, showing off June’s full glory. We wandered through sunny vistas of fragrant water meadow, cool beech and chestnut woods, and balmy towpath. (The child is not dead, by the way, or even unconscious!) We sampled a new recipe for Nettle seed. I’ve been using…
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My Bushcraft Journal : June
I’m not even sure what to call this post as I’ve been up to so much, its difficult to narrow it down. So here’s some of the low impact nature and off grid things you might like to try in June, that freshest of Summer months. New bushcraft friends South African Marco and Vita showed…
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Grub’s Up When You Grub Up Pignuts
Thought I’d reblog this great article by Cumbria Foodie. I’ve just located an impressive carpet of Pignuts (Conopodium majus) on the front bank of my son’s Middle School. Pignuts are found all over the UK. They prefer dry, acidic soils. Look for them in open woods and meadows/grasslands. Pignuts are a traditional country food, grubbed…
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BLUE LAGOON Summer Foraging With Tapas – info & links
I have a new location for 2025 – the lovely Blue Lagoon Nature Reserve, MK. Plus I’m still running courses at the Globe, Linslade, and at Tiddenfoot Waterside Park. The Blue Lagoon is host to many wildflowers that thrive on poor soils, plus some really surprising escaped ‘naturalised’ plants such as psychotropic Datura (Thornapple or…
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June Home Education with Hedgewitch Kat
Foraging is a great activity for Home Educated children. It combines many disciplines: ▪︎biology of wildlife and plants, food webs, biodiversity ▪︎chemistry of plant compounds – what makes a plant medicinal or toxic? ▪︎Food tech – processing and cooking wild food ▪︎Exercise – racing about in beautiful natural places Your teacher will be me, Kathryn…
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Hazel Leaf Sushi with Henford Trefoil Guild
It was a busy Tuesday as I prepared 3 tapas for the ladies of the Trefoil Guild in Malden. This is a society for Girl Guides over 18! There were 17 of us in all, off into the wilds where we sampled: Wild Kimchi Hazel-Leaf Sushi by the Cleavers and Common Hogweed Jack by the…
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Mayan & Aztec Xocolatl
Though not strictly foraged, I need to share with you the joy of making our own hot chocolate (chocolatl) the way the Olmecs, Mayans and Aztecs prepared it for thousands of years. We got these cacao beans from a plantation in Madagascar last summer. The Aztecs regarded chocolatl as a sacred drink, fit only for…
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Beetle Paradise on Jack By The Hedge
My favourite pesto plant is home sweet home or food plant to at least 6 UK insect species. These pics were taken in my garden allotment patch, where I sowed Allaria petiolata seeds several years ago. The middle one is a Shieldbug. Yes, you can actually buy these seeds from Chiltern Seeds…or you can collect…
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