Thrift Plant Song

My friend and fellow forager Mark Williams shared this song with me. It was introduced to Mark by a traveling troubadour on one of his foraging and kayaking weekend trips.

When I started creating foraging songs, I shared my first song publicly at a Association of Foragers in Scotland. Later that year Mark invited me to a forager's gathering hosted by Bruichladdich distillery. Picking me up from the ferry port from Arran, we did a road trip to the Isle of Islay and shared some songs while Mark drove.

This is a beautiful song, highlighting the qualities of this hardy, pretty, life-affirming plant. Speaking to Josh of Wild St Ives, Josh shared some of the research he'd done into the edibility of Thrift as a wild food. Plants for the Future consider the edibility low, so not the best wild food! So let's celebrate Thrift for all its qualities.

‘Thrift (Dig In, Dig In)’ from Spell Songs II: Let The Light In Released December 2021

Inspired by the creatures, art and language in the acclaimed The Lost Words and The Lost Spells books by renowned author Robert Macfarlane and award-winning artist Jackie Morris.

Thrift is also known as Sea Pink as flowers abundantly here in Cornwall too. It's a beautiful sight on the coast and rocky, harsh environments.