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Do Dock Leaves Really Work?

The question I’m always asked on my foraging walks when talking about the common broadleaf dock is “Do dock leaves really work?”, “Do dock leaves work on nettle stings? or “Why… Read More

Is sweet woodruff poisonous?

Posts about sweet woodruff are often accompanied by toxicity warnings and advice not to take it with warfarin or to check with your doctor first. So I thought an article… Read More

How do dock leaves work?

I’ve already written extensively about the right way to use dock and how powerfully it works. The trick being to use the gel found inside the young, furled leaf sheath… Read More

Wild Medicine Info

Scalycaps

A happy group of Shaggy Scalycaps (Pholiota squarrosa) but not for eating! And also some rarer juvenile Flaming Scalycaps (Pholiota flammans)

Wild Food Recipes

Mushroom Ketchup and Powder

A recipe for a mushroom liquor and powder from The Compleat Housewife: Eliza Smith, 1736. This recipe makes a mushroom ketchup (liquor) to use instead of Worcester sauce in cooking… Read More

Edible Fungi, Wild Food Recipes

Hedgehog fungus – Hydnum repandum

Luckily for foragers, hedgehog fungus is far less well-known that it’s cousin the chanterelle. It is easily identified by its spines or teeth under the cap which look vary different… Read More

Wild Medicine Info

Young Birch Polypore (Piptoporus betulinus) has been used medicinally for over 5000 years as antiparasitic, antimicrobial, to treat wounds, stomach diseases and in rectal cancer. Tests prove has anticancer effect… Read More

Wild Nutrition Facts

How to Dry Seaweed

I’ve been doing a lot of seaweed collecting this summer. I always end up running out and don’t often get to the coast in the winter. This is important to… Read More

Wild Food Recipes, Wild Medicine Info

Rose hips: Winter ‘Vitamin C’ Syrup

Rose hips are extremely high in Vitamin C and also contain Vitamins A, D (made by sunshine and often missing in the winter months) and E, as well as antioxidants.… Read More

Wild Medicine Info

Wild Carrot Identification

The carrot family of Apiaceae contain both edible and deadly species. You need to “know your carrots” before foraging for them. With poisonous hemlock on the left and edible cow… Read More

Wychmoss - the Project

Lady’s Smock – Cardamine pratensis

This is Lady’s Smock also known as Cuckoo Flower. It is a meadow and riverside field plant that flowers in the late spring. It is fabulous in salads as it… Read More

Wild Medicine Info

Lesser Celandine (Ranunculus ficaria)

Concerns for a Planet, Thoughts and Musings

Now is the Time for Action

Now is the Time for Action. You. yes, you! What you do to the Earth, you do to yourself. Our only chance of survival is through restoring vital connection between people and planet. This...

Wild Booze Recipes

How to make Diodgriafel

…or how to make wine with wild yeast In Wales, recorded in 1802, poor people would “make a drink called Diodgriafel by infusing [rowan] berries in water”. In 1798, John Evans writes that… Read More

Workshops

Fields and Forests Project – Cream Recipes

Making Flower Creams The recipes from the Summer workshop will be posted soon. In the meantime gather the petals of flowers. Many flowers have both therapeutic and scent properties. Those… Read More