WILD FOOD

Cotswold Adventures is the brand new Bushcraft day that takes place in the stunning Cotswold hills.

My love affair with Nettles is showing no sign of abating. Today I am sharing my latest favourite way of eating them – as Nettle Crisps!

There are young nettles wherever we look at the moment, here in our part of the UK. I’m not sure when it crossed my mind to try and make a…

It’s not often we get massive amounts of snow here in the UK, but this week we seem to be getting more than our fair share. Once the kids have…

Foraging for wild food is a brilliant way to get outside and interacting with our natural environment, and over the next few weeks nature’s larder will explode in an abundance…

Hunter sausage rolls is a great recipe for introducing kids to cooking with wild game meats. Super easy to make, game is great value for money and has high nutritional…

Regular readers will remember that back in June I was given a fabulous hoard of wild horseradish roots.

Every year we forage for sloes to make sloe gin. Sloes are the fruit of the Blackthorn shrub (Prunus Spinosa). It is native to Europe, Western Asia and parts of…

Mead is the oldest alcoholic drink known to man. It is made from honey and water, and is fermented through the action of yeast. Traditionally, wild yeasts would have been…

We all want beautiful, healthy skin, as proved by the overwhelming array of skin products available to us in the shops. But did you know that man has been using…

A herb is defined as a plant with leaves, seeds, or flowers that are used for flavouring, food, medicine, fragrance or other useful applications. There are lots of reasons to…

Meadowsweet is just starting to flower in our British hedgerows. It is a wonderful herb, with a beautiful fragrance, which, in my opinion, easily rivals that of the Elderflower.