I love the purity of this wild kefir chardonnay recipe and its ability to pass as a plausible white wine replacement when you can’t, or don’t want to, drink a glass of regular wine with dinner. This is great when you want something to drink that feels indulgent and has…
Category: Drinks
This is a tea-based kombucha recipe, to which you can add lovely seasonal, garden-inspired twists (see below). It’s important to create a strong, vibrant flavour before adding your scoby, as kombucha is a tangy drink and delicate flavours can be overwhelmed. By Rachel Dethample Our Wild Kombucha Recipe Makes 1…
Winter is the perfect time to embrace the magic of wild fermentation, and what better way than with a batch of Wild Winter Mead? Written by Forager Matt… It is winter my friends. The harvest is in, the sun is gone, the ancient inhabitants of this rainy isle would now…
Common Jasmine / Spring / Summer / Edible The Common Jasmine (Jasminum officinale) isn’t just a beautiful addition to gardens; it’s also a surprising edible plant with a long history in culinary and medicinal use. Known for its delicate white flowers and sweet, intoxicating fragrance, this climbing plant thrives…
In this article, we’re diving into the world of foraging for free Tea & Coffee Ingredients. It’s not just a savvy move to combat the cost of living, but these wild brews, from forager tea to herbal teas, offer delightful tastes and health benefits. With the ever-increasing cost of living,…
Preserving wild flavours is an exciting part of any foragers’ journey it often culminates at some point in Foraging for the Drinks Cabinet. Infusing alcohol is a simple yet amazingly delicious way to encapsulate some of Mother Nature’s tastiest wild abundance. There’s no doubt that our ancestors have been harvesting,…
Doesn’t just the very sound of Wild fermented fizzy drinks fill you with abandon? No stacked corn syrup or artificial flavours here. Just fresh wild flavours straight from Mother Earth herself. Wild fizzy drinks are made through a simple fermentation process. You simply make a juice or infusion, add yeast to it,…
This Elderberry Port recipe is one of the easiest things I make every year, it’s a brilliant late evening drink and I also use it often for presents. If anyone knows me, even veaguely, you’ll know that I absolutely love quick wins that pack masses of flavour, maybe I’m getting…
English Chamomile / Spring / Summer / Edible Chamomile A once common plant but due to habitat loss it is classed as vulnerable on the Vascular Plant Red Data List for Great Britain. We would therefore not recommend harvesting it in the wild. Common Names Chamomile, Camomile, Roman Chamomile, English…
This Elderflower Syrup recipe is a brilliant way to use up a serious glut of elderflowers whilst preserving the flavour in a concentrated form for use throughout the entire year. This is probably the most common thing I make with elderflowers because you can use it really easy way to…