Foraging: 1/20 of 20
Cooking with Primroses II
March 15th, 2013
by Susan Clark
There's nothing more satisfying than watching a curd slowly start to thicken says Susan Clark...except, perhaps, knowing that your key ingredient was growing in the hedgerow just a few hours earlier. more...
In season now: what to eat during June
Tahsin Pak
28th May, 2012
Professional forager Fergus Drennan tells Tahsin Pak how to make the most of the free food in season this month more...
In season now: what to eat during May
Amy Halls
30th April, 2012
Slow Food UK CEO, Cat Gazzoli, dips into the UK's forgotten flavours to bring us her gastronomic pick for May more...
In season now: what to eat during March
Ben Hudson
5th March, 2012
Spring has (whisper it) sprung, so make the most of the fresh greens and foraged treats popping up in winter’s wake. Gardening expert James Taylor suggests five to get stuck into more...
See weed and eat it: a foraging break on the Scilly Isles
Kate Eshelby
23rd February, 2012
Seaweed, carrot flower and locally caught fish were all on the menu during Kate Eshelby’s gastronomic tour of the Scillies more...
Roadkill: sickening or sustainable?
Ben Martin
20th February, 2012
The idea of eating meat sourced from the roadside - whether deer, pheasant, fox or even otter - might sound revolting to you but for some, it's a gastronomic opportunity and a way of avoiding factory farmed meat more...
How to… make your own beauty products
Priyanka Mogul
9th February, 2012
Whether you’re foraging for ingredients or scouring the shelves of your local health food store, DIY beauty products are as good for the planet as they are for your skin more...
The A to Z of foraging
Chloe Barrow
31st January, 2012
Fed up of paying a premium for supermarket berries and herbs? Take a walk on the wild side and pick your own more...
The Ecologist meets…Hugh's Three Hungry Boys
Ruth Styles
23rd January, 2012
Channel 4's newest foodie series has plenty for eco warriors to love. The Ecologist catches up with Tim Cresswell to talk foraging more...
The beginner’s guide to late summer foraging
Noah Lee
2nd August, 2011
Can’t tell medlars from mushrooms? Noah Lee spoke to the Wild Man, aka forager Fergus Drennan, to find out exactly how to make your wild food fantasies a reality more...
Wild about weeds
Jeff Holman
5th April, 2011
An underrated source of vitamins; nettles, dandelions and chickweed are a nuisance on the lawn but great to eat. Jeff Holman takes another look more...
Top 10… foods to forage
Kara Moses
18th March, 2011
Thought there was no such thing as a free lunch? As Kara Moses found out, Britain’s edible wild plants, berries and nuts can provide exactly that more...
Foraging: 1/20 of 20
Forget Nori: Laverbread is the seaweed to savour
The Ecologist
14th February, 2011
Parsons Pickles' Welsh laverbread might not look particularly promising but it does pack a seriously nutritious punchmore...
The Wild Life by John Lewis-Stempel
Sophie Chamay
19th June, 2009
How challenging would it be to live entirely on wild food for a whole year? more...
Nature's free for all
Paul Kingsnorth
8th April, 2009
With the worst summer on record decimating his potatoes, onions and other allotment crops, Paul Kingsnorth turns to nature’s abundance in foraged foodmore...
Seaweed "tastes better than chocolate"
Fergus Drennan
1st July, 2008
Seaweed is delicious, nutritious, a veritable cure-all and just one of the reasons Fergus Drennan does like to be beside the Great British seasidemore...
The pearl of great price
Fergus Drennan
12th June, 2008
It's been a strange week. Within an eight-day period I found beauty, pain and death. more...
Foraging for sanity - building Holistic Health in Harmony with Nature
Fergus Drennan
1st June, 2008
Expelled from Eden and adrift amid the miracles of modern living, going back to nature is the only way to stay sane and healthy in this mad, bad world, says Fergus Drennanmore...
Wild elders: a forager's feast
Fergus Drennan
1st May, 2008
From its flowers and berries to the fungi littering its branches, the elder is a one-tree feast, says Fergus Drennan more...
Can man live on wild food alone? A one year experiment in self-sustenance…
Fergus Drennan
1st April, 2008
Is it possible to live off foraged food alone? Fergus Drennan thinks so and aims to prove it. In the first of his monthly columns he explains why, from April 1 st, he will be eating nothing but wild food – for an entire year...more...
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