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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

Metanutrition and Wild Diversity

I’ve recently been reading an excellent article by Colin Tudge about the inclusion of many of what I call the ‘lost nutrients’ – and that Colin calls ‘cryptonutrients’ – in… Read More

Myco-Community Cooperation

My thoughts on niche partitioning in fungi With so many plants and fungi jostling for space on a forest floor or open grassland, you’d think that they should all be… Read More

Wild Food Recipes

Japanese Knotweed Muffins

Yesterday I found two wild dessert foods. Wild growing rhubarb, a garden escapee, and Japanese knotweed (on the right of the basket. It was quite a coincidence as Japanese knotweed… Read More

Wild Medicine Info

Is Comfrey Edible?

Is Comfrey Safe to Eat? Common comfrey is a wild-growing herb that has a long tradition as both an edible and a medicinal species. It is a nutritious plant, being very… Read More

Wild Booze Recipes

Ash Cider recipe (Frenette) using green leaves

Ash Cider (aka Frenette) using ash leaves without manna ash Frenette is a mildly alcoholic drink made from fermented ash leaves. Read more about it’s history and the type of… Read More

Inedible Fungi

Wrinkled club fungus

Clavulina rugosa Phylum: Basidiomycota – Class: Agaricomycetes – Order: Cantharellales – Family: Clavulinaceae.

Wild Food Recipes

Meadowsweet Cordial

If you like Elderflower Cordial you’ll love this! It has a sweet, honeyed flavour that is perfect diluted with fizzy water. “Children’s Champagne” I told a young man who tried… Read More

Wild Medicine Info

Meadowsweet contains salicylic acid which is what aspirin is. It has anti-inflammatory and pain relieving properties. Here is a simple versatile ointment recipe for treating all “dem aches an’ pains”.… Read More

Workshops

Edible Seashore with John Wright

Edible Seashore Coastal gourmet foraging day out with John Wright (River Cottage) & Monica Wilde (Napiers the Herbalists) with a wild gourmet lunch and treats! Join us in May 2017, for a… Read More

Wild Food Recipes

Scarlet Elf Caps

Scarlet Elf Caps Sarcoscypha coccinea are an edible fungus in the order Pezizale, that Orange Peel Fungus belongs to. They are widespread in February and love fallen branches half-buried in… Read More

Edible Fungi, Wild Food Recipes

How to Dry Mushrooms

Porcini powder is the most fabulous, deep, rich flavouring for stocks, soups, casseroles, in fact almost everything! Birch bolete powder comes a good second and most mushrooms produce an intense… Read More

Wild Food Recipes

Wild Raspberry Jam

This is a really easy recipe for wild raspberry jam. It takes just 12 minutes to cook and it tastes delicious. Also uses half the sugar of many other regular… Read More

Wild Medicine Info

Angel wings fungus. Angel of death?

Here in Scotland the beautiful, fragile, delicate angel wings mushrooms are forming on the rotting stumps of old pine. They’re exquisite to look at especially around sunset when catching the… Read More

Wild Food Recipes

A Jar of Beetroot – Beta vulgaris

Beetroots contain potent antioxidants and nutrients, including Vitamin A, Thiamine (Vit. B1), Riboflavin (Vit. B2), Niacin (Vit. B3), Pantothenic acid (B5), Vitamin B6, Folate (Vit. B9), Vitamin C, Calcium, Iron.… Read More