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How To Eat SPRUCE and FIR Trees
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Hedgewitch Kat’s Spring & Summer WILD TAPAS E-books Out Now
Hi all, letting my subscribers know I’ve made some seasonal E-books with my recipes from over the years of Foraging With Tapas courses. I’m having so much fun making these! Some pics from Spring Wild Tapas are below: Summer Wild Tapas E-book preview below! Spring and Summer are available in my online store at https://hedgewitchadventures.com/shop/…
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FEBRUARY HAZEL POLLEN: Sweet or Savoury?
Identifying Hazel Over the last few weeks, male catkins of Common Hazel (Coryllus avellana) have been draping the bronzy twigs of our native small tree. They’re a welcome addition ot the otherwise muted colours of February. Hazel is monoecious, which means it’s a hermaphrodite. It has both male and female flower parts on one tree.…
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H.A. Foraging Journal – February Week 1
Buds are slowly revealing their silken insides on willow. Sycamore buds glow green, Blackthorn is dressed in hints of bridal white. Sloes are still out though, and they’ve been nicely bletted by the cold. I can even eat a few raw without wincing. Sloe Recipes A Sloe Ice Lolly could be a good bet, but…
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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…
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My Hedgewitch Journal: Seedy September 2025
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Cooking A Continental Find: ‘Pioppino’, The Poplar Field Mushroom
A week or so after the first rains, I leapt aboard my trusty steed and cycled down to one of my favourite foraging haunts, Tiddenfoot Lake. Here I was blessed enough to find two black poplar tree stumps with fruiting Poplar Field Mushrooms. This mushroom, Cyclocybe aegerita/cylindracea, has been foraged, grown and cooked since Greek…
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SUMMER SPICED FRUITS:H.A. Foraging Journal July pt 2
Fruits are hanging ready all about me, urged on by the earlier, hotter than normal weather. Being aware of climate change and making whatever steps we can to lower our carbon footprint is one thing to do. Try to walk on local journeys whenever possible…not only are you saving carbon and getting fitter, you’ll spot…
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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,…
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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…