Ruth Stokes tells The Ecologist about an ingenious new online tool that encourages all of us, especially the yet-to-be-converted, to indulge in the free edible goodness found throughout our urban spaces
… Falling Fruit: A global collaborative foraging map Ruth Stokes | 1st November 2013 Ethical Living Food Foraging Community apples.jpg Ruth Stokes … goodness found throughout our urban spaces Foraging for fruit just got easier, with a map …
Seaweed, carrot flower and locally caught fish were all on the menu during Kate Eshelby’s gastronomic tour of the Scillies
… See weed and eat it: a foraging break on the Scilly Isles Kate … Eshelby | 23rd February 2012 Ethical Living Foraging Travel Green Living Society Scilly … Lambert , a wild food expert; who leads foraging walks throughout England’s south …
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
… Foraging for sanity - building Holistic Health … Fergus Drennan | 1st June 2008 Ethical Living Foraging Philosophy Spirituality Oneness Connection Food Foraging Lessons From Nature Food Security …
Eating wild plants and mushrooms is a pleasure we should all indulge in, believes open air gastronomist Humphrey Birley - and this new edition of 'Wild Food : a complete guide for foragers' is just what's needed to get us exploring woods, hedgerows, meadows and salt marshes in search of edible delicacies.
… about the environmental effects of all this foraging. Phillips includes Gerard's recipe …
Combining style and sustainability, Bournemouth’s Green Room restaurant is a wild-food lovers’ dream
… Head chef, Gordon Jones, is passionate about foraging. ‘I try and forage as much as … fiancée bought me a rod for Christmas. With foraging, you never really know what you are …
Greener eating doesn’t have to mean compromising on taste or quality, as these five books, reviewed by Valentina Jovanovski, prove
… of the best: Seaweed and Eat It: A Family Foraging and Cooking Adventure Authors Xa Milne and Fiona Houston present foraging as a feasible alternative to the … ingredients . Seaweed and Eat It: A Family Foraging and Cooking Adventure (£10.99, Virgin …
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
… March Local Broccoli Cabbage Lesser Celandine Foraging Recipes cabbage.jpg Spring has … place to be GREEN LIVING The A to Z of foraging Fed up of paying a premium for … catches up with Tim Cresswell to talk foraging GREEN LIVING Snack on that! Are …
Fresh or dried wild seaweed may be on sale in a supermarket near you, writes Fiona Bird. But much better than supporting what may be unsustainable harvesting, gather your own at low tide on rocky shores, picking just enough for your needs. Once a poverty food, seaweed is now a sought after ingredient that expresses the 'fifth taste', umami.
… don't be tempted to stray towards commercial foraging, even if you do it out of generosity, … bag for each species you collect. Seaweed foraging is an occasion when a plastic bag is … Don't be tempted to stray towards commercial foraging, even if you do it out of generosity, …
Pounds and pence are important to some but not vital for anyone. From skinny dipping to dustbin dining, there are many ways to live without paying for it. Here are some top tips
… living is easier: you can go camping, go foraging, go out into the wild, into the … are four legs to your food table, says Boyle: foraging; growing your own (there's no way 60 …
Maria Evrenos left her wallet at home for a week to discover that even an inexperienced urban forager can survive without money for a week by treasuring other people's trash.
… trash. Mmmm ... chocolate! So I started foraging. During the course of the week I …
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.
… Susan Clark | 15th March 2013 Ethical Living Foraging Cooking Food Baking Preserves curd … on cooking with Primroses, including basic foraging guidelines and a recipe for a …
The outbreak of Ebola in West Africa had everything to do with logging, deforestation and the disruption of traditional agro-forestry by large scale industrial agriculture, writes Rob Wallace. The only long term solution to this terrible disease may lie in forest conservation, the restoration of agroecological farming systems, and the exclusion of agribusiness investment.
… dispossessing smallholdings and traditional foraging grounds for mining, clear-cut … permit easy movement between roosting and foraging sites. Bats aren't stupid. As the forest disappears they shift their foraging behavior to what food and shelter are …
With supermarket milk cheaper than spring water, it's time to rethink the modern dairy industry. It's not just the milk that's become a throwaway product - the high-octane Holstein cows that produce it are also in the knackers yard after just two or three lactations, the living waste of a loss-making, environment-trashing industry.
Dairy - the case for greener, healthier, lower performing cows Mark Eisler Graeme Martin Michael Lee | 8th September 2014 Comment Food Farming Health Animal Welfare bull-cow-cut.jpg Contented cattle …
Keen to save the world but don't want to end up in a Russian prison? In the second of her 3-part 'Activism for Busy People' series, Ruth Stokes suggests changing the way you source your food as an approach to activism that won't turn your life upside down.
… to suggest that someone could survive on foraging and swapping alone, but these tactics …
As the nights draw in, Susan Clark settles in for winter with a store of mulling syrup that captures the distinctive, old-English taste of juniper berries.
… | 12th November 2013 Other Food Christmas Foraging shutterstock_150516434 (1).jpg As the …
The EPA's release of an internal memorandum last month showing the increasing use of the cancer-linked weedkiller glyphosate looked like a welcome opening up of information to the public, writes Carey Gillam. But then it was suddenly withdrawn, along with other related documents - though not before she grabbed her copy and reviewed the scale and scope of glyphosate usage.
Withdrawn: the EPA's memo on the increasing use of glyphosate on food crops Carey Gillam USRTK | 10th May 2016 Comment Food Farming Regulation Pesticides Health USA almond-blossom-cut.jpg The EPA's …
Abusive farming of animals in factory farms is one of the great cruelties of the modern age, writes Philip Lymbery. While some may justify it as necessary to 'feed the world', it is no such thing. The answer lies in supporting small scale traditional farmers, and respecting the livestock that are intrinsic to sustainable agriculture across the planet.
… natural behaviours such as nesting or foraging. These systems rely heavily on vast …
How to make your food your medicine and medicine your food, starting with six common herbs you can use in your recipes and everyday cooking
Aromatherapy in your kitchen: part one - cooking with herbs Pat Thomas | 10th August 2010 Ethical Living Green Living Food Health Herbs Aromatherapy Herbal Remedies Fresh Herbs Healthy Eating Natural …
An ordinary arable field in Sussex is sprayed with pesticides 22 times over a single growing season. Dave Goulson wonders how the bees can survive this toxic onslaught - and exactly who benefits.
… was a late year), and will be crawling with foraging bumblebees, hoverflies and other …
Antibiotics used to protect them from bacterial illnesses ravaging hives are making them die from commonly used pesticides, some of which are used to ward-off bee-killing parasites. Matthew Thompson reports.
… encounter a diverse array of pesticides when foraging and because more than 120 different …
Earlier this week, the Trussel Trust reported the number of UK families using food banks has tripled in the last year and increased a staggering FIVE FOLD since the coalition came to power. Paul Creeney asks the big question ...
… I saw two men standing on a pile of ice foraging for food in a dumpster behind the …
The way food is produced has a profound impact on its nutritional profile, according to research published in the British Journal of Nutrition. Not only is organic farming better for animal welfare, the environment and wildlife, writes Peter Melchett, but organic meat, dairy, fruit and vegetables all have tangible health benefits for the people who eat them.
Organic food is well worth paying for - for your health as well as nature Peter Melchett Soil Association | 4th March 2016 News Food Farming Regulation Organic UK Health organic-boxes-cut.jpg The way …