Wild Garlic Recipes
Anyone who’s walked through a wood and smelt that distinctive onion-y smell has been near one of the commonest, but little used, wild foods. Wild Garlic (Alium ursinum) or ransoms is common in woods...
View ArticleForaging for Sweet Chestnuts
Now is the time to be collecting your sweet chestnuts.As the October winds get going, there will plenty more of them to collect from under the trees. Don’t confuse them with horse chestnuts (conkers),...
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Preparing Rabbit for the pot
In the modern day diet, Rabbit is often overlooked as a meat source, and certainly you’d be hard pushed to find it in your everyday supermarket. Yet Rabbit meat is high in protein, low in fat and low...
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Making Sweet Chestnut Flour
The Sweet Chestnut is not a native tree to Britain. It is thought that the tree originated in Greece but and was planted in the Britain by the Roman, who planted the tree all across their conquered...
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Chocolate bananas and caramelised apples on a campfire
It’s often hard to get children to eat fruit. On a woodland camping trip we found a good way to get them eating and cooking apples and bananas. Your fire needs to have been alight for some time: this...
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Hunter Gatherer
In my 2011 quest to only eat meat which I have hunted or gathered myself, I’ve learned a lot. Most people ask me “how” I do it, so I thought I would share a bit more on the actual tasks of finding the...
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Cooking and eating woodlice (pillbugs) – a real bushcraft experience
Woodlouses or woodlice have never previously seemed to me the kind of thing you would want to eat. But I came face to face with a cooked woodlouse recently when we made a woodlandsTV film about...
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A woodland birthday
Soft play, football or bouncy castles are the usual birthday party options but not for Mrs Hawkins and her five year old son. They recently attended a Robin Hood birthday party at Beeley Wood in...
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Cooking pizza on a campfire in a woodland
Cooking sausages on a campfire is quite easy but what about when the children want to eat something different in the woodland? You can do soups, baked potatoes, beans, lots of fried food – but can you...
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Penny Bun Mushroom foraging
Before we go foraging for mushrooms - Care is needed when picking mushrooms, mushrooms can come in different shapes and sizes and are only easy to identify once mature. A small immature mushroom also...
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Seed dispersal – coming to a sticky end
Some seeds when they are dispersed come with a small layer or ‘wing’, made of a complex carbohydrate (mixed with some protein). When wetted, this material swells to form a sticky, gooey mess - this is...
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