It’s not only food we can forage for in our hedgerows, something I love to do is head out Foraging For Dyes. Mother nature provides us with an abundance of plants that can be useful elsewhere than just the kitchen. In this blog post we are going to take a…
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Foraging in September is brilliant, September marks the end of summer and the beginning of autumn, it’s the month for berries, nuts and seeds. The wetter weather also marks the beginning of ‘mushroom season’ and you’ll see fungi springing up almost everywhere you look. So what can you forage in…
English Oak Tree / Edible / Spring / Summer / Autumn Scientific Name: Quercus roburFamily: Fagaceae.Also known as: English oak, pedunculate oak. Habitat:English oak is a very common tree, especially in Southern England. Description: A large deciduous tree, growing up to 30-40 metres when fully grown, with distinctive round-loped leaves. Identifying…
To be honest I’ve always avoided making Acorn flour as it really sounds like a very long laborious task that results in a nutty flavoured flour. That’s until I found out you could do it all in one day – probably an hour if you ran to your local oak…
Acorn Flour Banana Bread This is a really nice way to get some use out of the very common Acorn and use up some of those bananas that you had forgotten all about. With this Banana bread made with acorn flour! Ingredients 1 cup of leached acorn flour 2 cups…
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…