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  • 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…

  • (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.…