Kit I Take When Foraging for Free Food I was thinking about a new addition to my foraging gear/foraging pack, and I thought it might be worth sharing the rest too. Of course, when I say my standard foraging pack, I mean my standard walking pack. After all, you wouldn’t want to come across a […]
My first crow garlic video, please bear with me and I’m sure I’ll get better with practice. A short talk about foraging for Crow Garlic, how to recognise it, and how to bring it home and use it. Including looking for the dark-olive colour and height/stiffness of the blades (compared to grass), looking for the […]
Crow garlic dinner Now I have a pot of Crow Garlic in the garden; It’s simple to snip some off, give it a quick rinse and chop it over this lovely chicken dinner; Which was already lovely, now it’s a bit more garlicky.
Where to forage Berries, fruit, leaves, seeds, nuts etc. When I think about where to forage from, for such things as berries, fruit, leaves, seeds, nuts and anything else that doesn’t involve taking a whole plant, I take from anywhere apart from private property, unless I have permission to take from the private property. EXCEPT, and this […]
So this may be a basic one for some people, but I’d never heard of crow garlic until last week. So on Sunday I was looking out for it and there it was; By the side of the path in Lee Valley park. I thought it looked like the pictures, so I grabbed a few […]