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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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Wild Kimchi & Spring Tapas pics May 10th & 11th
Another lovely weekend in the sun teaching how to make wild kimchi on Sat. On Sun, foraging course with 3 wild tapas. I forgot to take pictures of the tapas!!! Terrible marketing… We had: Jack by the Hedge pesto on crackers Nori sushi rolls with lacto fermented wild kimchi Elderflower jelly with cream Here’s a…
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Dandelion Delights
Here’s one of the tasty greens (actually yellows!) I collected this week… I took the tallest dandelion flowers near the riverbank – the ones least likely to have been weed on! Although this time I cooked them, so there’s not much to worry about. Had a lovely relaxing time pulling the petals out of half…
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DIY Wild Kimchi
Here’s some pics from my last DIY Wild Kimchi course last week. Good fun and useful learning about the ancient yet very relevant art and science of Lacto-fermentation. There’s a link underneath for the next DIY Wild Kimchi course in May. Places are filling up fast and are limited to maximum 8 people. If you…
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StrANge fRuiT(ing bodies): Fungi-like Horsetails
This week in April, myself and the child collected tender fertile stems of Common/Field Horsetail (Equisetum arvense). These are part of the diet in Japan, Korea and China. They are SO WEIRD…like ALIEN THINGS. They’re a fairly common invasive species in the UK, too, grabbing a chokehold on the damp banks of watercourses. Weird fact:…
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Woods to Warm You Well for BUSHCRAFT MAGAZINE
Check out the excellent national Bushcraft Magazine UK. My latest article is on the best woods to burn for heat and cooking. Plus which to avoid. They even published my poem…whoo hoo!
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Wild Kimchi 2025 course links
Hi all, Here are the links to book for Wild Kimchi Making this Spring 2025. I tried putting them on my last post and my computer crashed! My speciality is plants, not technology…
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Spring Foraging With Tapas & Wild Kimchi course dates
Hi all and happy Spring! If you would like to book either a half day Spring Foraging and Tapas experience or a Wild Kimchi foraging and making experience, check out the dates below. If there is a group of you I’m quite happy to arrange a private event. I’ve run these events for birthday parties,…
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A Gift Of Zander
Today when i came out of Tesco, I saw the strangest craft on the canal. It was a small GRP skiff with what looked like a giant mouth brace on it, with tubes of different colours going into the water. The three men on it were working for CART, getting rid of invasive fish. They…
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Xmas Wild Edibles I’ve Been Munching On…
Don’t let the dark, damp, cold winter weather put you off foraging. (Well, ok, let it put you off a bit.) There still a fair amount for us bush botherers to eat if you know where to look. Check out what I found on a 1-hour stroll around my local neighbourhood. PINE NEEDLES I make…
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