Ramsons, otherwise known as wild garlic, is one of my favourite foraged foods and after a 10 month wait the leaves are appearing again. But there are other plants that grow amongst the ramsons that you need to be wary of. Watch this video to find out more. You might also want to take a […]
For me bushcraft is about exploring and understanding the natural world. I often try to imagine life for our hunter gather ancestors, looking out of their shelters into the forest and knowing that the supermarket, DIY shop, chemist and clothes shop are all out there, it’s just a case of what to look for, where […]
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 […]
