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What is The Wildbiome® Project

What is the Wildbiome Project? A series of measured dietary studies on the effects on foragers from eating only wild foods. No UPFs nor modern foods!

New Year’s greeting to all

I know I’ve been very quiet over the Juul period and haven’t written for a while. That’s mainly been down to two things: being away and being in darkness. I… Read More

The Wildbiome Project

The Wildbiome Project is a series of citizen-science studies on the effects of eating only wild food. This includes effects on the human body, our gut microbiome and, from the… Read More

Wild Food Recipes

Common Hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium)

A Taste Like None Other Of all the plants I eat, people are most suspicious of Common Hogweed Heracleum sphondylium. It’s got an undeserved reputation because of a sinister relative that… Read More

All Recipes, Wild Food Recipes

Seaweed Oatcakes Recipe

These are delicious and so, so good for you being a vital source of iodine. Even people who “don’t like seaweed” love these savoury oatcakes. But a word of warning:… 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

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

Edible Fungi

Wild Hen of the Woods

Passing an old oak tree today looking in the grass for pink purslane, the old giant whispered to me as I walked past. As she did the thought entered my… Read More

Wild Medicine Info

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

Wild Nutrition Facts

How to Dry Seaweed

I’ve been doing a lot of seaweed collecting this summer. I always end up running out and don’t often get to the coast in the winter. This is important to… Read More

Wild Food Recipes

Crispy Dulse Seaweed Snack

I was given some dried dulse Palmaria palmata last night by Fi Houston, a fellow forager and a seaweed aficionado who sells wonderful sea spices at www.seaspice.co.uk. Below is the dried… Read More

Wild Medicine Info

Edible horsetail shoots

Young horsetail shoots (Equisetum arvense) are an edible wild food, fine for foraging when they are young. They look pretty much as they were in the Paleozoic era but considerably… Read More

All Recipes, Wild Booze Recipes

Traditional Elderflower Cordial

Ingredients For each litre of water allow 10 large elderflower heads, 1 lemon (grated zest and juice) and 1 tsp citric acid (optional) and 1/2 kilo white sugar. Directions Boil… Read More

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Hair Ice in Wales

I was recently contacted by Neville Davies from South Wales who discovered something unusual in his local woods this January. Neville sent me the photo below and writes: “On January… Read More

All Recipes, Wild Food Recipes

Laver Cakes Recipe

This is a delicious breakfast snack. A twist on an old Scottish breakfast classic and a great way of making sure that you get your daily dose of the vital… Read More