Recently I ran a 1:1 private day with a client and they forgot to bring a packed lunch. Not to worry, we made a foraged lunch instead, using lots of hogweed shoots and some dandelion bhajis. It was delicious! So in this video you can see me cooking hogweed shoots in a cast iron pan […]
A quick and easy recipe to make delicious chestnut and mushroom soup. We made this for lunch at the weekend on our 2 Day Fruits & Fungus Forage. The photo below is Milly, Megan and Sam foraging for field mushrooms on a somewhat windswept morning! Ingredients Serves 4 Olive oil 1 onion, finely chopped 2 […]
Bannock, also known as flat bread, is a simple unleavened bread made from plain flour and water; we make it for breakfast on our Wayfarer’s Weekend. You can be a little more adventurous by adding some milk powder to the flour or from time to time I’ll use natural yoghurt instead of the water. Of […]
Nicola made this delicious wild greens and beans yesterday on a glorious spring morning. She used nettles and ramsons but you could swap out the ramsons for other wild greens as the foraging season progresses. If you can’t find any ramsons, add a couple of cloves of garlic to the ingredients. Ingredients 2 tbsp of […]
Foraging for giant puffballs (Calvatia Gigantea) is a straightforward endeavour, they can be found in meadows and fields during the late summer and are easy to recognise. Last weekend on our 1 Day Foraging Course Nicola and I found some giant puffballs but they weren’t ready for picking. So we went back yesterday to see […]
This video was shot on a spring forage we lead in April 2019. It was taken by Nick Shallcross, who we sincerely thank. You can see from what we’re all wearing that it was still a little chilly, look carefully at the start of the video and you can see sleet! The next weekend we […]
