Blog - Monica Wilde

The Wildbiome Project

More about the project here https://www.gofundme.com/f/wildbiome Have you ever wondered what happens to your body when you eat wild foods? I’m Mo Wilde a foraging teacher. I want to fund… Read More

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

Wild Food Recipes

Field mushrooms by the pailful

When our local farmer told me there were field mushrooms “by the pail’fer in the files next to the sheep” he wasn’t joking! This was a lucky meeting a the… Read More

Wild Medicine Info

Vegetarian artichoke rennet

Here is a lovely cheese developing from goats milk curdled with immature artichoke seed. For more about wild and vegetarian rennets see my long blog post here. Curds after cutting. … Read More

Edible Fungi

The Mushrooms are Back!

Watching the tractors out mowing and baling in the fields fills me with dread, knowing that summer is drawing to a close and winter is on its way. So the… Read More

Wild Medicine Info

I recently received the following letter from Paul Lister, contemplating the lessons that we need to learn from the coronavirus outbreak and our relationship with nature. Paul runs the Alladale… Read More

Wild Medicine Info

The Birth of a New World

How can I speak of hope when so many have died? The tragedy is that those who have passed are all the beloved of someone who lives to mourn them.… Read More

All Recipes, Seaweeds, Wild Food Recipes

Potted Winkles

Here are some recipes for your steamed winkles including my favourite, Potted Winkles. As a guide to quantities, one large mug will contain about 95 winkles, which will weigh about… Read More

Wild Medicine Info

Cowslip (Primula veris)

Wild Medicine Info

Foraged and garden micro salad

This time of year brings a Spring cacophony of fantastic flavours to your salad bowl. Micro greens from the polytunnel providing a neutral base of coloured lettuces to showcase the… Read More

plantsarecool

Do Plants Talk? It’s Called Biosemiosis

Can plants talk? This century we’re learning that bacteria can talk and count – it’s called quorum sensing – and they know when there are enough of them to mount… Read More

Thoughts and Musings, Wild Nutrition Facts

Variety, the superspice of life

Variety, we are told in the popular expression, is the spice of life. However, we are missing something today and I’d like to rewrite that old saying. I would argue… Read More

Wild Food Recipes

Marinated Burdock Root

Ingredients 10 slim burdock roots 120 ml rice or white wine vinegar 120 ml miso or stock 2 tablespoons sugar 2 tablespoons medium soy sauce 1/4 teaspoon salt Nettle seed (traditionally sesame seed) Directions Peel… Read More

Wild Medicine Info

In Praise of Coltsfoot

Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara) can be an elusive plant. It raises its flowers before its leaves in the Spring (hence the country nickname “Son before Father”). The flowers quickly pass as… Read More