Cooking with Wild Foods in the Kitchen Wild food can literally be found everywhere, from the centre of London to the rural escape of Wales. People often tell me they’ve found a range of wild foods but rarely use them because they either can’t find any good recipes or can’t…
Category: Foraging
Dandelion Root Coffee Acorn Coffee Sticky Weed Seed Coffee Coffee itself is fairly unique, 400 billion cups of coffee drink on average per year around the world which is set to increase as more cultures join the coffee bandwagon and America’s influence over the world increases. England alone has…
How to Identify Mushrooms Sometimes I’m out on a walk, walking the same route I have most mornings with my dog, yet suddenly I catch a white glimmer under one of the hedges, I lift up a bit of the hedge and, almost like Alice discovering wonderland, I see absolutely…
Chamomile Health benefits Chamomile is an amazing plant that I often find growing on derelict spaces as well as the edges of farmers’ fields. When I do find it it’s usually site in fairly large quantities and can be collected quite quickly. It’s always best to use it fresh but…
Through this article we’ll be taking a look at the common question, Can Hogweed Burn Your Skin? I always find it really interesting to see people’s reactions during a foraging course, as we pull up next to a fabulous patch of young succulent Common Hogweed Shoots and I go on…