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How to make a mineral-rich spring tonic using wild plants
Discover how to craft a revitalising spring detox tonic from wild plants, harnessing dandelion, cleavers, and stinging nettle‘s potent properties. This short video guides … Continue
How to make plantain oil for stings and bites
Before watching, please pause, breathe and relax. This is a short, quiet film where I show you how to make plantain oil. Which I … Continue
Maundy thursday soup
Robin Harford takes you on a forage looking for nine wild greens to include in this Maundy Thursday soup. A contemporary take on a … Continue
The forager’s toolkit: essential equipment and tools you need for wildcrafting
Having the correct equipment and tools can be of great help when foraging or wildcrafting plants for food and medicine. Note: Commissions may be … Continue
How to prepare edible alexanders flower stems
A short video explaining how to use the flower stems as food. Few people use the flower stems, but it is most probably the … Continue
Acorns in an era of climate change
In this video, Marcie Mayer takes your around her oak farm in Greece and shows you behind-the-scenes how acorns are being used as food. … Continue
Acorns: a forgotten superfood
The use of acorns go back into the mists of time. An ancient food that unfortunately these days is sorely neglected. Marcie Mayer is … Continue
Dulse seaweed as food and medicine
Traditionally dulse was harvested after it had been washed three times in the May floods. In folk medicine, dulse was used to treat parasitical infections, relieve constipation and treat scurvy.
Traditional use of hottentot fig
Carpobrotus edulis has a good, balanced nutritional profile. The succulent leaves are a strong antioxidant. They can be pickled but can be astringent if … Continue
Yarrow as a traditional herbal remedy
Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) grows everywhere, in the grass, in meadows, pastures, and by the roadside. The whole plant, stems, leaves and flowers, collected in the … Continue
From drug addiction to wild wellbeing
How I got into plants, or how I came back to plants, really, was that I had a digital publishing company up until 2004. … Continue