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  • Top of the TINDERS

    Today I thought I’d go out and collect several different wild tinders. Tinders are plant materials and fungi that you can use to catch sparks (ie from a strike flint or bow drill) and start a fire. (If you are surviving an apocalypse and have forgotten your lighter!) They are nothing to do with the…

    February 6, 2023
  • Hungry Gap Lifesaver No 1: CHICKWEED

    Fellow Foragers will be with me when I say we are coming out the other side of the harshest month for foraging. There’s a few edibles out there for the beady eyed to find, however! Green under the ice One of these tasty reliable salads is Chickweed (Stellaria media). This little plant has historically been…

    January 31, 2023
  • Woods To Warm You Well

    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…

    January 24, 2023
  • Cooking With Castanea!

    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…

    January 20, 2023
  • Spring Forages with Sensory Quiz!

    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…

    January 11, 2023
  • Wild Flours Pt 1: Dock & Fat Hen

    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.…

    January 4, 2023
  • What would a forager not eat?

    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…

    December 9, 2022
  • Puffballs at Tring Park

    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…

    December 2, 2022
  • Birch bark basketry in Alberta

    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…

    November 24, 2022
  • Chestnut Cookery with CASTANEA : Part 1

    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…

    November 7, 2022
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