HEDGEWITCH ADVENTURES

H.A. Field Courses 2026 About Hedgewitch Kat

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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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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:…

  • 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!

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…