The Ecologist




 

Foraging: 1/13 of 13

The A to Z of foraging

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

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...
mushroom

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...
weed salad

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...

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 punch

more...
book

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...
Wild-food_MAIN.jpg

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 food
more...
Archive_240.jpg

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 seaside

more...
fergus_and_sloes.jpg

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...
Archive_244.jpg

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 Drennan

more...
Archive_205.jpg

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...

Foraging: 1/13 of 13

Archive_211.jpg

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...

Members





Follow the Ecologist