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Apiaceae of the Angels

Angelica (Angelica archangelica) – sometimes called common angelica or “angel’s herb” – is a striking, statuesque biennial in the carrot family (Apiaceae) with a long history of culinary, medicinal, and… Read More

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

Wild Food Recipes

Winter Chanterelle mushrooms

The last week of October. It’s dark by 6, there’s a chill in the air, and the trees are wearing their full autumn colours. The wild mushroom season is drawing… Read More

Wychmoss - the Project

Wasps Nest

Three rather beautiful wasps nests. It’s late summer so the wasps have nearly vacated them now and the last few are hanging round the raspberry patch eating the last of… 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

Wild flower summer cordials

Hopefully by now , mid May, elderflowers are starting to flower in a lane near you. And if not, they soon will be in June. Cordials are delightful and here… Read More

Edible Fungi

Winter fungi

Between Christmas and New Year, it’s so nice to get outside for a crisp walk & forage, even at zero degrees. Today I found some velvet shanks (Flammulina velutipes) edible… Read More

Wild Medicine Info

4000 year old “aspirin” flowers found in Bronze Age grave, Forteviot, Perthshire?

Meadowsweet flowers found in a Bronze Age grave were reported as proof of a "floral tribute". Monica Wilde suggests the reason was not sentimental but practical - the person buried may have suffered from...

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Chemicals in plants – cyanide

Hydrogen cyanide (aka hydrocyanic acid) has a faint bitter-almond scent – although not everyone can smell it, due to a recessive gene. It is released in plants by compounds called… Read More

Wild Medicine Info

Apiaceae of the Angels

Wild Medicine Info

Thoughts on the Autumn Equinox

The Autumn Equinox marks the first day of autumn. It is end of summer, when the day and the night have become equal lengths and, for the moment, nature is… 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

Wild Medicine Info

Spring Wildflowers

Tis pleasant ‘mid the never-ending strife Of this too busy, mammon-loving age, When Nature’s gentler charms so few engage, To muse at leisure on the quiet life Of earlier days,… 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