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  • Track & Sign Pt 2: Plantation Wood & Rushmere

    Track & Sign Pt 2: Plantation Wood & Rushmere

    Part 2 of my explorations of Animal Tracks and Signs. It wa a beautiful out, and I was lucky enough to stay out in the woods for a whole (school) day! I went to see the Ravens that nest in the top of a Redwood tree. Below is their grand home of last year –…

  • 6 Roots You Can Eat In Winter (If Trump Destroys the World…)

    If the world system fails, which looks increasingly likely with the behaviour of certain grown-up toddlers… be apocalypse-ready. Winter food Winter is traditionally the time to harvest roots. Plants store energy in the form of carbohydrates by stocking it up in their roots, bulbs, corms, tubers or rhizomes. Don’t worry about the terminology, unless you…

  • My Foraging Journal: January

    YES, you can still find wild fodder in the coldest and cruellest of months. Though it’s not the easiest time to survive, granted. Here’s what I’ve been up to. Why not try some of this out for yourself? What foraging and bushcraft ideas have you come up with with in winter? Let me know in…

  • ROWAN…Fire Engine Red Witchbane & What You Can Do With It.

    Rowan trees are aglow with fire engine red berries in council car parks and waysides everywhere. They’re a popular landscaping tree, so chances are there’ll be one near you. They love growing high up, so check hills too. Rowan, or Mountain Ash, is known as Sorbus aucuparia in the botanical community. It’s a member of…

  • My Foraging Journal:November

    A bit belated this one. October is a busy month for foragers in temperate zones. I’ve been testing out brambles for various types of basketry for 2 bushcraft/homesteading magazines. Brambles are hard-wearing if you can evade and conquer the thorns! The best time to harvest bramble for this is actually summer, as they are more…

  • How Can We GIVE BACK to Nature?

    It’s ever more important to realise that as foragers we are part of the cycle of life, not looking down on it, not the broken end of a chain of energy. When you first start foraging, you may not feel this way. However, as time goes on and you become more attuned to the plants,…

  • King’s Wood: The Kingdom of Fungi – Oct 25th

    Majestic old oaks arch and swoop overhead. at their venerable feet boletes pop up like roast turkey scented bath sponges. Pacing up and down another ride leads us to bracken and silver-white birches with Milk Caps and Brown Roll Rim. Yet another way, we end up in the midst of hazel coppice. Lastly…tall pines swaying,…

  • Here We go Gathering Nuts in… October

    SWEET CHESTNUTS Round these parts (Bedfordshire, UK) the sweet chestnuts are already ripe and shining rich brown as they pop out of quilled cases. By the way, it may seem like I’m being patronising, but do you know how to tell the difference between a Sweet Chestnut and a ‘conker’ tree (Horse Chestnut)? (Yes, spot…

  • ‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’ – J. Keats

    After a busy weekend teaching a public forage on Saturday and a private Foraging Party Sunday, both with 3-4 tapas tasters, I thought I’d share with you all some other fruiting and fungal delights of the autumn season. Hops droop (like brewer’s droop haha) from the hedge down the way. Once golden and dry, the…

  • My Hedgewitch Journal: Seedy September 2025

    September is the golden, freckled season of seeds. There’s lots to forage now and much to store for winter. So here are 5 the seeds the boy and I been harvesting. Well, ok, seeds I have been harvesting whilst my son moans about it and slumps in the footway. PLANTAIN SEEDS I’ve been shucking the…