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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…

March 7, 2025
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,…

March 7, 2025
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…

December 19, 2024
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…

December 5, 2024
3 Great Munchable Fungi – Bedfordshire in October

Last weekend I made a mushroom risotto with Field Parasol, Amethyst Decievers and Common Puffball mushrooms. These are all great entry level fungi for the pot. They are easy to recognize and difficult to confuse with anything poisonous. Below is Field Parasol (Macrolepiota procera). They can be 30cm in diameter! Young ‘drumsticks’ on the left…

October 18, 2024
Autumn Foraging With Tapas

October dates for foraging those nuts, seeds, fruits and roots. Same deal as usual, kids 5 to 15 half price. We’ll be learning about autumn wild edibles outdoors, with recipes to take home (via email to save the environment and me having to use the library printer as I live on a boat), and tasting…

September 12, 2024
EXTRA DATE: Autumn Natural Dyes Course 9th Nov

Hi all, I have put up an extra date due to the first course going so well.. .Children 12 to 15 are still half price, buy tickets for them on Eventbrite or PayPal to hedgewitchkat@hedgewitchadventures Due to hot liquids and gas cookers, no kids under 12 please. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/make-your-own-natural-dyes-tickets-951438015717

September 12, 2024
Go Gather for Baskets…

This is a good time of year to collect basketry materials. Plants such as brambles are at their most tough and longest growth, yet still flexible. In case you didn’t know, bramble baskets are fairly easy to make and last a long time. The trick is to de-thorn them with some very tough gloves, a…

September 12, 2024
Foraging in Madagascar

Apologies to all, I have been away a long time. The summer, however, has not been wasted. after 3 and a half weeks in the tropics, I bring you a handy guide to foraging for wild tropical foods. These are the foods you are likely to find in tropical regions with a monsoon season. On…

September 6, 2024
Natural Dyes…Colours from the Wilderness

At the moment I have been making dye samples for my Wild Dyes course at the Globe this Sat afternoon. I only use non toxic mordants (though you don’t want alum in your eyes)! As well as collecting wild dye plants, we’ll be learning to use mordants and how to change colours by changing the…

July 25, 2024