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…
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Foraging and Wild Food Recipes
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…
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.
This morning I had a lovely surprise. I got back from the school run, to find a foraging friend of mine waiting for me with a bag full of wild…
This recipe for nettle fruit leather is one of my own concoctions. The idea came to me while pondering on what I could do with the nettle residue you are…
Google the health benefits of stinging nettles, and you will find the most incredible list of diseases and complaints that this plant has been attributed to helping with- everything from…
You may remember that at the start of the year, the kids and I set ourselves the challenge of learning more about both foraging and identifying our native wild plants…
This week we have been focusing on trees when we’ve been out and about. We started by trying our hand at some bark rubbings.