HEDGEWITCH ADVENTURES Blog

For those of us lucky enough to have wood or multi-fuel stoves, we can lessen the impact of fuel prices by collecting our own wood! SEASON IT WELL! If wood is seasoned it will be lighter in weight and colour. It will likely be cracked at the ends. This is all good – it means…

Yep, sweet chestnuts, most of us have heard of them, or eaten them roasted from brasiers in large cities in November. Castanea sativa…meaning ‘sweet’, this useful tree was brought over here by homesick Romans. Little did they realise how the rainy, cold climate of Blighty would affect the quality of the nuts! Yet the chestnut…

Want to learn the art of foraging your own food from the wild? Come on these half day courses with expert forager Kathryn Clover (me) as seen on the BBC and featured in Bushcraft & Survival Skills Magazine, Kitchen Garden Magazine, Waterways World and Backwoods Home. We’ll be going on a 2 hour foraging route…

I’ve been having great fun this autumn and winter. Squirrelling away wild seeds and nuts, then in some cases soaking them in 2 changes of water a day for weeks on end. I then put my small child to work grinding up the dried results in a coffee grinder expressly not meant for the purpose.…

Personally , I’ve munched on snails, bark, crayfish, roadkill and fermented nettles…. But I draw the line at these chocolate raisins from the pound shop. What would you not eat, even in a dire emergency? Cat food? Car radiator water? What have you managed to keep down? Special recognition for the strongest stomach…. Over to…

Here’s a pic of some delicious Stump Puffballs (Lycoperdum pyriforme) I found off the wood path in Tring Park. There were lots more, but as Marty won’t eat them it was better not to be greedy. yep, they are in one of my birch bark baskets…great for keeping mushrooms fresh and not squashed… Puffballs are…

Originally posted on RETROactive: Written by: Elizabeth Goldberg, Archaeological Survey of Alberta Alberta archaeology, and field archaeology in general, places a lot of emphasis on stone tools. We divvy up projectile points into groups based on time, place and form. We source quarries for flaked tools to hypothesize past trade relationships and seasonal migrations; and…

Yep, sweet chestnuts, most of us have heard of them, or eaten them roasted from brasiers in large cities in November. Castanea sativa…meaning ‘sweet’, this useful tree was brought over here by homesick Romans. Little did they realise how the rainy, cold climate of Blighty would affect the quality of the nuts! Yet the wood…

Have you ever wanted to learn how to make natural containers to store food? Birch Bark has been used for making many objects in times gone by, with its antibacterial properties and breathability helping foods to stay fresh. It can be used to boil water over an open camp fire, yet the natural oils within…

It’s that time of year when the crimson fruits of our native wild Rosa canina, or wild Dog Rose, are starting to soften or ‘blet’ in the colder air. Humans have been scoffing these rose hips since the dawn of civilisation – a 2000 year old English corpse has been discovered with rose hip seeds…