Foraging guides and recipes

Elderflower Jelly

This delightful and delicate jelly allows the wonderful flavour of Elderflowers throughout the year. It is delicious on hot toast or with...

Foraged Fruit Vinegar

When it comes to preserving foraged soft fruits and berries, most people think of jams, jellies and syrups. However, fruit vinegars are a...

Foraged Syrups

What an amazing week I had running foraging workshops and cookery demonstrations. Foraged syrups were extremely popular - I share my...

Hawthorn Ketchup

One of the nicest ways to use Hawthorn is to create a delicious savoury ketchup

Nettle cordial

Many people think of common or sting nettles as a savoury green, but they make the most wonderful and refreshing cordial

Rowan Jelly

The bitterness of Rowan's berries comes through in this jelly along with a wonderful flavour development of sweet through sour, bitter and f

Wild Garlic Pesto

A simple pesto that can be used on crackers or as a sauce base

Wild Mushroom Pate

An easy, delicious pate using a few foraged wild ingredients in addition to mushrooms. Can be made vegan or vegetarian

Wild Mushroom Soup

What better way for a forager to warm up on a cold winter's day than with a delicious mug of soup made from their forged mushrooms

Marsh Samphire - Salicornia europaea

A coastal plant found in estuaries and along mud flats

Rosebay Willowherb - Chamaenerium angustifolium

One of the first plants to appear on the site of a fire

Sea Buckthorn - Hippophaes rhamnoides

A thorn covered costal shrub

Sea Purslane - Halimione portulacoides

Found in estuaries and coastal flats, often in large numbers

Sea Rocket - Cakile maritima

Found in sandy coastal areas