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  • Nettle Seed Potato Bites, Wild Spicy Kimchi Egg Sticks, Elderflower Jelly

    Last Sun 15th June forage was a quiet but fun one, showing off June’s full glory. We wandered through sunny vistas of fragrant water meadow, cool beech and chestnut woods, and balmy towpath. (The child is not dead, by the way, or even unconscious!) We sampled a new recipe for Nettle seed. I’ve been using…

  • My Bushcraft Journal : June

    I’m not even sure what to call this post as I’ve been up to so much, its difficult to narrow it down. So here’s some of the low impact nature and off grid things you might like to try in June, that freshest of Summer months. New bushcraft friends South African Marco and Vita showed…

  • Grub’s Up When You Grub Up Pignuts

    Thought I’d reblog this great article by Cumbria Foodie. I’ve just located an impressive carpet of Pignuts (Conopodium majus) on the front bank of my son’s Middle School. Pignuts are found all over the UK. They prefer dry, acidic soils. Look for them in open woods and meadows/grasslands. Pignuts are a traditional country food, grubbed…

  • 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…

  • 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:…

  • 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…

  • Summer Foraging & Kimchi pics June

    Taught some lovely people this weekend, including a paramedic, a biochemist, someone who works in international theatre and people that work with PRU units to make work opportunities for teenagers. I changed the tapas menu for Sat : this June we sampled Steamed Hogweed Flower Beetroot Club Sticks, Estonian Potato Nettle Cakes and Elderflower Jelly…

  • Lemon ‘Mallow Melokhia Magic’..MMM.

    Common Mallow (Malva sylvestris) is everywhere on disturbed soil and path edges. The leaves are wide and hand-like – if your hand was that of an Martian tiger! They have a deep red dot in the centre. The flowers are blowsy light pink with triangular petals. The triangle theme carries on in the brown, wheel…

  • Turmeric Jack Raisin ‘Fermentomelette’ ;)

    It’s time to get out in the spring sun and get foraging for vitamin and mineral packed young shoots and leaves. For a quick power lunch, try this omelette open sandwich I made with a lacto-ferment filling. Delicious! First, make your ferment. This needs doing a week before you add it to any recipes! Lacto-fermentation…

  • (Very Cautiously) Edible Tree of the Week: YEW

    When I say ‘caution’ I mean the same caution that lovers of Japanese pufferfish fugu must exhibit while enjoying their meal. Do you trust your chef?!! The only part of yew that you want to be eating is the aril, the fleshy red fruit that surrounds the black seed. DO NOT EAT THE SEED WITHIN.…