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1. To make a meal using only ingredients I’ve grown, raised, caught or killed myself. April was an interesting meat-y month – we learned how to kill & dress chickens, and we also learned how to make sausages. It was also the proper start of seedling season – and that’s continued in May. So far, [...]
On Sunday, we went on a Wild Food Foray just north of Bolton Abbey, North Yorks, organised by Slow Food West Yorkshire and led by medical herbalist & wild food expert Jesper Launder. It was a glorious day – beautiful countryside and super sunny but with a lovely cooling breeze and a river for Lily [...]
I spotted a little patch of wood-sorrel in the woods while out walking the dog the other day – at first I thought it was clover but then I noticed the flowers were very different and a quick swizz in my wild flowers book positively identified it was wood-sorrel. People have apparently eaten wood-sorrel for [...]
I tried some cleavers today – ie, grassgoose, Galium aparine, or more commonly around here, the stickybud plant. Since the plants are young and sprightly at the moment, I tried the leaves, which don’t exact garner winning reviews from my wild food books – one calls them “too bitter” to bother with, another says they [...]
A change from my last very quick and easy wild garlic (Ramsons) meal – I made crab & wild garlic risotto for dinner today. I got two dressed crabs from Leeds Farmers Market – the guy gave me a free one because he wasn’t doing another market for a few days and they don’t freeze [...]
I had my first wild garlic of the season today! The woods behind our house are *full* of it – the banks of the stream on both sides are five foot deep with it, mostly just small baby leaves at the moment but some bigger leaves too. I picked some – a large handful – [...]
