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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
How to safely eat sea arrowgrass
What we are looking at here is a plant called Sea Arrowgrass (Triglochin maritima). It’s common names are coriander grass or wild coriander, because it actually … Continue
How to make a delicious pine oil
Important Update: Some folk are little concerned about possibly getting food poisoning from this recipe. The advice is to keep plants in oil no … Continue
Mulberry tree: uses and identification
A short video walking you through how to identify a Mulberry Tree, along with its uses.
Japanese rosehip: uses & identification of rosa rugosa
A quick video showcasing the exquisite culinary use for Japanese Rosehip ( Rosa rugosa). Rosehip Resources: Funky Facts You Need To Know About Rosehips … Continue
Is It hemlock or cow parsley
Hemlock or Cow Parsley? Think you know? Watch this video and take some time to see if you can tell the difference. In this video I … Continue
On sea kale root
? A short video of Robin Harford on the delights & virtues of sea kale (Crambe maritima) root.
Wild food foraging & the idler lifestyle
? Tom Hodgkinson is editor of The Idler and best selling author of How to Be Idle & How to Be Free. Last weekend … Continue
Frank Cook on nettle
? Frank Cook (internationally renowned edible wild plant expert) discusses the importance of Nettle (Urtica dioica) as food and medicine. Photo credit: Sassafras Krause … Continue
Frank Cook on dock
Home > Plants > Dock In the UK the two common species that you are likely to have come across are, Broad-leaved dock (Rumex … Continue
Frank Cook on the pine family
? In this short video Frank Cook (global wild food expert) discusses the many uses of the Pine Family both as a wild food, … Continue