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  • FLOWER POWER :H.A.Foraging Journal July Pt 1

    June and July are such busy months for the forager! Below are some things you might like to try that I’ve been doing. 1.Fortify yourself with St John’s Wort! I infused some St John’s Wort, the Midsummer Flower according to Shakespeare’s ‘Midsummer Nights Dream’. I infused it in lemon gin. I actually don’t like gin,…

  • 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…

  • BLUE LAGOON Summer Foraging With Tapas – info & links

    I have a new location for 2025 – the lovely Blue Lagoon Nature Reserve, MK. Plus I’m still running courses at the Globe, Linslade, and at Tiddenfoot Waterside Park. The Blue Lagoon is host to many wildflowers that thrive on poor soils, plus some really surprising escaped ‘naturalised’ plants such as psychotropic Datura (Thornapple or…

  • 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:…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…