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The Super Powers of Stinging Nettle Seed

This article was written for the first of Reforesting Scotland’s biannual journal of 2018. Reforesting Scotland is a membership organisation encouraging free and open debate on a wide range of… Read More

The Wildbiome Project Results

The Wildbiome Project involved members of the Association of Foragers participating in a citizen science research study. They ate only wild food for either 3 months or 1 month. They… Read More

How to become a Herbalist

If you want to train or study to become a professional medical herbalist, there are a few routes open to you. However, first you need to think about what you… Read More

All Recipes, Wild Food Recipes

Seaweed Crackers

Print Yum Seaweed & Nettle Crackers Prep Time: 60 minutesCook Time: 20 minutesTotal Time: 1 hour, 20 minutes 20-30 crackersServing Size: 2 These are really tasty little crackers to have… 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 Medicine Info

Leopard’s Bane

Leopard’s Bane (Doronicum pardalianches) is related to Arnica (Wolf’s Bane) and also poisonous as neither should be taken internally. Great drifts of this are now in flower along the river… Read More

Wild Food Recipes

Porcelain Fungus

Porcelain Fungus (Oudemansiella mucida) Edible. Wash off mucus & remove stems. Nice taste although not as tasty as oyster mushrooms. Eat them fresh as they deteriorate quite quickly.

Wild Food Recipes

Oyster Mushrooms on the Menu

Both of the large horse chestnut Aesculus hippocastanum trees that fell in the January gale were host to some fabulous oyster mushrooms Pleurotus ostreatus. Fried in butter with an egg… Read More

Wild Medicine Info

Hedge Woundwort on the Midge Battlefield

Early June and the midges are out. I suddenly noticed this when I walked into a sylvan glade in the woods. It was so beautiful. The brilliant sunshine dapples by the shade of… 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, Wild Medicine Info

How to make Nettle Cheese

This is a light cheese made with a nettle rennet and cow’s milk. Using a vegetable rennet rather than calf rennet allows you to make a vegetarian cheese. There are… Read More

Workshops

Fields and Forests Project – Flower Waters

Fields and Forests Project – Flower Water Gather flowers in the early morning. Later in the day, the heat of the day may have evaporated some of the essential oils… Read More

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

Wychmoss - the Project

To thatch or not to thatch!

Well, we could have a live roof. Or we could have a thatched roof… A live roof would blend into the woodland and hide the buildings among the tree. The… Read More