Let’s see how much wild food I can forage on a two hour walk in August

🍄My favourite ways to use these wild ingredients🍀:

Blackening Polypore [Meripilus giganteus] - tender pieces shred into ‘pulled pork’/‘crispy duck’. Use tougher bits to make stock.
Rosebay Willowherb [Chamaenerion angustifolium] - flowers for syrup / ferment leaves for tea
Nettle Seeds [Urtica dioica] - fresh or dried
Apples [Malus domestica] - puddings/vinegar
Dock Seeds [Rumex crispus] - crackers/flour
Staghorn Sumac [Rhus typhina] - sumac spice or lemonade
Linden Seeds [Tilia spp.] - roast and use as chocolate supplement
Queen Anne’s Lace [Daucus carota] - flowers for jelly/cake/salads. Seeds as spice
Dandelion [Taraxacum officinale] - leaves in curries. ‘Honey’ from flowers
Broadleaf Plantain [Plantago major] - eat young leaves and use on cuts
Common Mallow [Malva sylvestris] - leaves as you would spinach, eat seeds which are called cheeses.
Heather [Calluna vulgaris] - herbal tea
Wood Avens [Geum urbanum] - roots as a spice
Yarrow [Achillea millefolium] - leaves as pot spice, make tea
Elderberries [Sambucus nigra] - green elderberries to make capers, ripe ones to make syrup/jam (*don’t eat raw).
Wavy Bittercress [Cardamine flexuosa] - in a sandwich
Himalayan Balsam [Impatiens glandulifera] - eat flowers, use seeds as grain or as seeds. (*be careful when harvesting as invasive and seeds pop out)
Common Hogweed [Heracleum sphondylium] - sauté young shoots with butter (don’t eat raw).
Goldenrod [Solidago spp.] - make tea
Common Burdock [Arctium minus] - dig root with landowner’s permission, use like root vegetable
Dewberries [Rubus spp.] - use as blackberries
Blackberries [Rubus fruticosus] - pie/jam/vinegar
Birch Polypore [Fomitopsis betulina] - use in herbal tea
Musk Mallow [Malva moschata] - in salads/as spinach
Honeysuckle [Lonicera spp.] - as garnish or infuse alcohol/syrup
Herb Robert [Geranium robertianum] - as coriander substitute
Self Heal [Prunella vulgaris] - herbal tea/salve
Red Clover [Trifolium pratense] - flowers in salad, decorate cakes/infuse oil/vinegar. Make tea
Fuchsia [Fuchsia spp.] - flowers as garnish. Eat berries later
Rosehips [Rosa spp.] - rosehip syrup/jam

Never eat anything you haven’t ID’d. Always forage responsibly. #wildfoodforaging #nature #foraging

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