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Over 300 blogs and videos about wild edible plants and foraging for wild food. Find recipes, identification tips, seasonal suggestions, nature reflections, foraging songs and much more.

Green Sorrel Song

Gorse Flower Song

What's love got to do with foraging?

Yarrow Cocktail recipe

Magnolia Spiced Bliss Balls recipe

Medlar Toffee Ice Cream recipe

Medlar Tart with Toasted Meringue

NEW Pocket Book: Wild Food Foraging in Devon

Blackberry Seeded Granola recipe

Wild-flavoured Homemade Jam Tarts

Wild and Sweet is the Winner of British Book Award

Spiced Orange and Medlar Pie

Elderberry and Red Cabbage Pickle Recipe

The Fluid Nature of Being

Wild Food: Marsh Samphire

How to Make Wild Infused Honey

Enki Magazine, May 2022

House & Garden, April 2022

Tin Coast Foraging in West Cornwall

David's Weed song

The Caterer, April 2022

Ancient Stories of Foraging in Mounts Bay, Cornwall

Wild Cornish Salsa Verde recipe

Modern Farmer, March 2022

We Heart, March 2022

Dandelion Flower-Head Fritters

Nettle and Ginger Ice Cream

The Times, March 2022

Wild and Sweet - the 1st wild dessert cookbook

Wild Food: Scurvygrass

Medlar Muffin recipe

Raw Medlar Tart (vegan, sugar-free, grain-free)

How to use Medlars

Hogweed Seed Meringues

Blackberry Seeded Bread recipe

White Chocolates with Rosehip Fondant

Baked Apples with Rowan and Chestnuts

Rowan and Apple Jelly

Alexander Seed and Orange Shortbreads

Coconut and Alexander Seed Ice Cream

6 (half a dozen) Alexander Seed recipes

Alexander Seeded Chocolate Truffles

Wild Food: Common Vetch

How to use Wild Carrot Seeds

Wild Carrot Song (1st verse)

A Walk along the Shoreline with forager Rachel Lambert

A Guide to Seaweed Foraging

Quick hogweed seed custard pots

12 (one dozen) Elderflower recipes

Glazed Orange and Elderflower Cake

Apricot and Elderflower Sweet Bread

Elderflower and Sea Salt Ice Cream

Elderflower Jam Tarts (Scandi-style)

Elderflower and Pear Jam

Wild Mint Sorbet and Wild Mint Ice Cream Recipes

Foraging for 4 Different Wild Mints

Hemlock Water Dropwort

Fishy (Vegetarian) Seaweed dip

Wild Food: Wood Sorrel family

Wild Food: Daisies

Foraging for Sorrel in a Field

Japanese Knotweed Frangipane recipe

Japanese knotweed jam recipe

Homes and Gardens Magazine, March 2021

A Day Off Foraging!

Rosehip and Buckwheat Crackers

Wild Food: Violets

Sweet Violet Viennese Whirls

Crystallising Wild Flowers

A Dozen (12) Wild Violet Recipes

Burdock Beer Recipe

Alexander Filo Tarts

Candied Alexander Stems

Rustic Wild Carrot Seeded Stuffing recipe

Wild Herb Stuffing Recipe

Wild Food: Ground Ivy

Foraging Burdock Roots

Caramelised Sugared Almonds with Hogweed Seed

Sloe Gin Chocolate Cake

Sticky Sloe and Nut Clusters

Sloe Syrup Recipe

Wild Food: Hairy Bittercress

Cleaver Coffee Chai Recipe

How to Make Wild Cleaver Coffee

Sticky Rowan Marmalade Pudding

Rowan Marmalade Recipe

Elderberry and Chocolate Souffles

Elderberry Cordial Recipe

Wild Wakame Seaweed

How to make Rosehip Syrup

Haw Berry and Star Anise Jam Recipe

Making and Using Blackberry Seeds and Pulp

Rich Blackberry Cordial Recipe

Blackberry Seed, Buckwheat and Seaweed Crackers

Gorgeous Sea Buckthorn Frozen Cheesecake Recipe

Sea Buckthorn and Carrot Cake Recipe

Foraging for Sea Buckthorn Berries

Sea Buckthorn Curd Cup Cakes Recipe

Raw Alexander and Cacao Truffles

Rustic Gorse and Oat Cookies

Wild Mint and Coconut Fridge Cake

Popweed, Bladders and Healthy bellies!

8 Edible Umbellifers

Pineapple Weed and Pineapple Jam Recipe

Chewy and crumbly pineapple weed flapjacks (vegan)

Pineapple Weed - the amazingly, fruity weed!

Wholesome Hogweed Seed Biscuits

Sipping Yarrow Herbal Tea

Wild Summer Pizza (with 4 wild toppings)

Plaintain Seed Cracker Recipe

Pink Elderflower and Rose Cordial

Fresh, Raw and Sweet Rose Preserve

Can you eat pink elderflowers?

Nature-made, wild island seaweed salt

Eat Wild: Free Foraging Zine!

How to make capers from nasturtium seeds

Elderflower and Strawberry Jam Recipe

Elderflower Fritters - savoury or sweet?

How to Make Nettle Powder

Moreish Elderflower Doughnut Recipe

Body as an Antenna

Nettle Energy Balls Recipe

3 Ground Elder Sugar Recipes

Ground Elder Shortbread Recipe (vegan)

Are White Bells Edible?

Dahl with Wild Hogweed Shoots

Nettle and Wild Garlic Pakora Recipe

Wild Food: Magnolia petals

Foraging for Spring Hogweed Shoots

Cherry Blossom Syrup

Can you eat blackthorn flowers?

Waitrose Magazine, March 2020

Three cornered leek water biscuits Recipe

Wild Herb Butter Recipe

Seaweed and Pumpkin Seed Crispbreads

Tricks for making Japanese Knotweed edible

All about Three Cornered Leek

How and When to Harvest Green Seaweeds

The Best Gorse Flower Ice Cream Recipe

5 Reasons to Eat Dandelions

Wild Green Sorrel Tart

Dandelion Root Caramel Brittle

Nori, Rye, Oat and Buckwheat Crackers

Nori Seaweed Foccacia Recipe

Sweet Wilds: A forager's confession

Gathering from Hedgerows rather than Shopping Aisles

Experiencing Your Body as Part of Nature

Dandelion Root Coffee Recipe

All about Laverbread

Wild Apple Curd Recipe

Burdock Roots in 3 Simple Recipes

Hawthorn Berry Schnapps

Winkles for Tea

Getting Intimate with Wild Foods

Ten Sloe Fruit Recipes

Baba Ghanoush with Dulse Seaweed

Hawthorn Berry Ketchup

Summer Foraging Memories

Wild Alexander Seeded Bread Recipe

Green Olive and Seaweed Tapanade

Delicious Blackberry Jam Recipe

Yarrow Flower Creme Brulee

Ling, Tea and Cornish Folklore

Make your own Wild Moorland Tea

A Humble Cup of Wild Fermented Tea

Wild Fennel Flavours for Summer

Fresh and Easy Seaweed Bread for Picnics

The Best Seaweed for Setting Panna Cotta

Fresh Pea and Seaweed Dip

A Quick and Creamy Elderflower Layered Sponge

Making Nettle Beer

My Wild Back Yard

Pear and Hogweed Cake (vegan gluten-free version)

Hogweed Shoots in a Cake!

Wild Spring Farinata Recipe

Eating Japanese Knotweed

The Amazing Bushy Rainbow Wrack Seaweed

The Best Nettle Syrup Recipe

Look what the storm threw up!

Nettle and Honey Cake with Gorse Flower Syrup

Why I love Stinging Nettles (A little film footage!)

Great British Food magazine, January 2019

Making Nettle Pakoras (with Nettle Song)

It's Cornish Nettle Soup Time!

Learn to Forage through Songs

Western Morning News, March 2019

The Lessons of Making Gorse Flower Fudge

Gorse Flower Rice Pudding

Drying Dulse Seaweed at Home

Wild Seaweed and Chocolate Meringue Recipe

Pickled Rock Samphire Recipe

What's Wild, Yellow and Subtle?

Wild Food Foraging in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly - 3rd Reprint has arrived!

The Singing Forager

A Sea Spaghetti Recipe - Cheese Straws with Seaweed

A Day in the Life of a Forager

Foraging as a Way to Feel Connected

Elderberry and Apple Jelly Recipe

Still got Blackberries in the freezer? Try this!

Foraging: Free Gifts, Freely Given

Winter Creamy Alexander Soup (vegan)

How to Forage Shellfish Safely

Carrageen Seaweed Cough and Cold Syrup

The Seaweed Forager - A Podcast with Rachel Lambert

The First Frost and What it Means for Us and Wild Fruits

Wild Singing - Rock Samphire Verse

Tasty Dulse Seaweed Soda Bread (Gluten-free)

Taking Care of the Elders

Wild Bilberries in Cornwall

A Forager's Dog - Paddy foraging Blackberries

Wild Fennel Seed Bunyols

Dear Miss Blackberry

Traditional Blackberry Cobbler Recipe

Summer Virtues of Stinging Nettles

Rock Samphire Salsa Verde

How to Make Wild Rose Water

Roses are Red, White, Pink and Edible

How to be Wild and Free (inspired by Virginia Woolf)

Why Cornwall is Special for Foraging

Three Cornered Leek Bread

How and When to Pick the Best Elder Flowers

Perfect Beach Food: Carrot, Ginger and Seaweed Salad

Take it To the Edge - Seaweeding for Adventurers

When NOT to Eat Stinging Nettles

What Can You Forage on the Helford?

2 Billion Old Seaweed and Still Tasty!

A Dozen Ways to Cook a Stinging Nettle

How to Make Gorse Scented Butter

Wild Garlic and Seaweed Oil (inspired by Nathan Outlaw)

Gorse Flower and Sargassum Seaweed Foccacia

How and Why to Cook with Alexanders

A Memorable Winter Foraging Menu

Foraging Video: Pennywort and Why Children are Good Foragers

Can Seaweeds Survive the Frost and Snow?

Foraging for Gorse Flowers in Winter

My Five Top Spring Wild Foods

Forage and Cook: Alexanders

Three Seaweed Soup with an Inner Kick

Delicious Sea Spinach and Coconut Soup

How I got into Foraging

Winter Warming Sloe Treacle Tart

Hawthorn Berry Fruit Leather

Edible Storm Debri; Sugar Kelp Seaweed

BBC South West, Sept 2017

Country Walking Magazine, Sept 2017

Cornwall Life, Jan/Feb 2017

West Magazine, February 2017

Western Morning News, January 2017

Rosehip and Custard Tart

Cornwall Living, September 2016

MyCornwall, August 2016

Western Morning News, June 2016

LAUNCH: New Seaweed Book

The Cornishman, June 2016

Cornwall Living, April 2016

Western Morning News, April 2016

A Hearty Snack - Savoury Alexander Muffins

Cod with Creamy Shellfish and Wild Spices

Fresh View, Autumn 2015

Cornwall Living, July 2105

The Cornishman, July 2015

1st Foraging Book for Cornwall and Isles of Scilly

Foraging, Yoga and a Paleo Diet

Alexanders and Three-Cornered Leek Frittata

Cornwall Today, Spring 2015

Blackbird Pie Magazine, Spring 2015

Foraging on the South West Coast Path

What if Everybody Foraged?

Delicious Nettle and Honey Cake

Cornwall Today, February 2014

Valentine Foraging and Rosehip Chocolates

Why Cornwall is a Great Place to Forage in Winter

Foraging Muppets-style

Mackerel and Blackberry Salad

Cornwall Today, Wild Food Walks, August 2013

Elderflower Cordial and Elderflower Sorbet Recipes

Western Morning News, July 2013

Comfrey, to eat or not to eat?

Tresco Times, Annual 2013

Corporate Foraging

Sainsbury's Magazine, April 2013

Alternative Wild and Superior ‘Asparagus’

Foraging with Chefs, Cornish Guardian, March 2013

Austrian Alpine Club, Spring 2013

The Cornishman, Feb 2013

JUNO A natural approach to family life, Spring 2013

Walk, Magazine of the Ramblers, Spring 2013

Making coffee from cleaver/goosegrass seeds

Wild Swimming & Christmas Chocolates

Wild Apple Curd and Hogweed Seed Meringue Pie

Making Rosehip Fruit Leather

Country Living Magazine, October 2012

The Sunday Times, October 2012

Wild Berries in Austria

Fork Magazine, Sept-Oct 2012

Catching the last of the Elderflowers...

The Huffington Post, July 2012

Foraging on the Isles of Scilly

The Lady, April 2012

Independent on Sunday, April 2012

Mad March Spring Foraging

I’m in Love with Nettles!

See weed and eat it: a foraging break on the Scilly Isles

Plant inspired Poetry - Common Sorrel

Daily Mail, January 2012

Rachel on ITV's This Morning

Condé Nast Traveller, August 2011

Daily Express, May 2011

Cornwall Today Magazine, May 2011

St Ives Times & Echo, June 2010

The Independent, April 2010

Country Walking Magazine, April 2010

Smallholders Magazine GROW YOUR OWN HARVEST, Dec 2009

Country Walking Magazine, Oct 2009

The English Garden, Aug 2009

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