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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

Wild Food Recipes

How to pick Sea Buckthorn berries

There are so many sea buckthorn berries (Hippophae rhamnoides) at this time of the year. They are very high in vitamin C and have an antioxidant (ORAC) profile just below… Read More

Wild Medicine Info

New Forest fungi picking ban by the Forestry Commission

Aside from the lurid media “Aliens Ate My Fungi” headlines, the alleged criminal gangs sweeping the forests, the unsubstantiated evils of fungi picking on conservation, the misreported fungi poisoning statistics… Read More

Wild Food Recipes, Wild Medicine Info

Pink Purslane

Pink purslane (Claytonia sibirica) is an edible plant in the Portulacaceae family related to Spring Beauty (Claytonia perfoliata) and Common Purslane (Portulaca oleracea) which is high in Omega 3 oils… Read More

plantsarecool, Wild Food Recipes

Daisy Soup for Dinner Parties

This is a neat ‘magic’ trick to impress your friends at dinner parties. Well… It really is the sort if thing that only a forager would do! Ingredients Any soup… Read More

Hedgerow

Is Common Hogweed Poisonous?

2020 update: the following is a quote of mine that I use when teaching people who come on my foraging courses. It brings a smile and helps people to understand… Read More

Wild Medicine Info

The answer to the Rose Riddle

The five sepals that make up the calyx of the dog rose Rosa canina are the five brothers in the rose riddle. You’ll notice that the edges of the sepals… Read More

Wychmoss - the Project

Visit to Garth and a mushroom feast

We last visited Garth about a week before the leaves started to turn into Autumn. On the way back we stopped by the edge of a wood, south of Aberfeldy,… Read More

Wild Booze Recipes, Wild Food Recipes

Beech Leaf Noyau and Beech Nut Nocino

Noyaux is French for ‘nut liqueur’ which makes me wonder if the beech nuts (beechmast) were ever used to make a liqueur, as well as the leaves? Here is a… Read More

Wild Medicine Info, Wildbiome

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

Edible Fungi, Wild Food Recipes

Wild fungi in August

It’s been a good year for fungi already and the combination of a hot, dry summer with a few days soaking from the post-Hurricane Bertha rainfall, has resulted in a… Read More

Wild Medicine Info

Nature’s Red Card

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

Foragers: Friend or Foe?

This article appeared in the first edition of LOCAVORE MAGAZINE. A wonderful journal packed full of interesting and insightful articles about slow, seasonal and sustainable food. If you hadn’t noticed… Read More