Category: Plants

The Carrot and Sea Arrowgrass Soup is a brilliant way to get the most out of the coriander-like Sea Arrowgrass. This dish is incredibly fresh and is lovely hot or cold, for me I always enjoy this with a big chunk of Nettle Soda Bread and plenty of butter. Click…

  Through this guide we’re going to take a look through the potential for Lacto Fermenting Wild Ingredients. The possibilities are endless and once you get started it just gets more exciting. When we begin to start foraging we find one or two exciting wild ingredients and try every recipe…

This Elderflower Eton Mess Recipe is a fantastic way to utilise the summers Elderflowers, and once they’ve dropped out of season, if you’ve made up some elderflower cordial or elderflower syrup then you can use that in the recipe too 🙂 Ingredients for Elderflower Eton Mess Recipe (enough for 4)…

  This Nettle Energy Ball Recipe is incredibly simple and the energy balls you get are absolutely jam-packed with nutrients and minerals – the perfect thing for a mid-hike snack.  Ingredients: 1 cup of rolled oats 1/2 cup of ground almonds (or other nuts/seeds of choice or more oats) 1…

 With vast open mountains, raised peat bogs, pristine coastlines, ancient woodlands and temperate rainforest there’s plenty of habitats to choose from if we want to foraging in Scotland Then there’s our beautiful city parks, which also contain the additional bonus of some truly amazing introduced species with complex, interesting and…

This Linden Blossom Jam recipe is a fantastic way to create a preserve out of a super seasonal ingredient which we can use over the rest of the year. Collect your blossoms/plant material the day before you want to make the preserve. If using blossoms place in a jug, the…

This Sorrel and Raisin Walnut Tart recipe utilises the sharp flavour of sorrel and creates something beautiful. With a sharp citrus flavour, which many people describe as a green apple flavour, this little green leafy plant was traditionally used to add sharpness to dishes, before we had access to lemons. …