It’s that time of year to get out and about foraging for rosehips. So here’s a short video looking at rosehips, why you need to be careful eating them and a couple of ideas on what to do with them. Here’s the recipe for rosehip syrup and another for rosehip and crab apple jam. Depending […]
A short video where I talk about beech masts, or nuts and why not every year is bountiful. Beech nuts are one of the many things we talk about on our 1 Day Foraging Courses and our 2 Day Fruits & Fungus Forage. You can see photos from both of these courses, as well as […]
A short video where I talk about blackthorn, sloes and sloe gin! How to make sloe gin Freeze 500g of sloes for a couple of hours before pouring into a jar Add 1 litre of vodka and 250g of sugar, put on the lid and put in a dark cupboard Shake daily until the sugar […]
When it comes to foraging for nettles, I find that picking nettle tips is best. We forage nettles regularly from the same few patches around our ancient woodland camp on the Kent Downs and by just taking the tips it seems to encourage new growth so that we can keep going back and harvesting right […]
If it’s the right time of year, eating bramble shoots is just one of the many wonderful things we get up to on our 1 day foraging courses. You can see plenty of photos from these courses, as well as all of our others, on our Facebook page.
As I was in the woods yesterday afternoon with a little time to spare, I made a video talking about some of the bushcraft uses for wood avens (Geum urbanum). I did a video a couple of weeks ago where I picked and ate some hogweed shoots. In that video I pointed out some wood […]
