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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 you through the process, highlighting each plant’s benefits and precautions, creating a natural elixir for rejuvenation and balance during the season of renewal. How To Use …
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 find deeply soothing for insect bites and stings. It is also great for inflamed skin rashes. Did this video work for you? I have tried to …
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 traditional Spring time soup. This recipe does not have any seasoning other than the a bit of salt and the flavours that naturally occur in the …
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 earned from the links below. Here is the list of the books: Here is the list of tools and equipment: Transcription of The Forager’s Toolkit Today …
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 tastiest and mildest part to eat. Further Reading Alexanders – A Foraging Guide to Its Food, Medicine and Other Uses
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. Acorns are a gluten-free, high nutrient food source we need to pay attention to, especially in an era of climate change. As food security becomes more …
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 an extraordinary acorn pioneer and has devoted her life to harvesting, processing and researching acorns. As a superfood, acorns meet many of our food challenges in …
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 harvested incorrectly. The juice is antiseptic. Hottentot fig has been shown to have anti-neuronflammatory properties, and may add to the improvement of cognitive functions. The fruit …
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 wild state, in August, when in flower. It is diaphoretic, astringent, tonic, stimulant and a mild aromatic. Yarrow tea is a good remedy for severe colds, useful …
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. I was working seven days a week, 15-hour days. I didn’t see my daughter grow up. I didn’t see the seasons. And I basically broke down …
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 tastes just like coriander. The bits that we are looking for are the very young flower shoots coming through with the flower buds. The bits that …
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 longer than three weeks and in the refrigerator. This is somewhat open to debate, and there have only been 33 recorded cases of food-borne botulism in …
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 Rosehip Soup Recipe With Roasted Chilli & Smoked Tofu Rosehip Vinegar Rosehip Syrup Recipe
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 reveal the answer, along with numerous photos to illustrate the plants. But first I want to make a few things very clear to you, and also …
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 I managed to grab him for a quick interview to talk about the idler lifestyle and the benefits of wild food foraging. Watch the video or …
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 Frank gives us a fascinating insight into the many uses of Nettles, and the why it needs to become the national food of England. The nutritional …
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 obtusifolius), and Curled dock (Rumex crispus), which in the US is called Yellow dock. According to Frank Cook it’s famous for its ascorbic acid content and …
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, and medicinally. Did you know that worldwide there are more than 200 species of the Pine Family, and many of them have edible pine needles, and …