Guelder rose shrub drink
Home > Plants > Guelder rose For ages, I have been experimenting with making wild shrubs. A shrub is a cider vinegar drink popular … Continue
Eatweeds wild food foraging guide to Britain and Northern Europe
The Traditional and Modern Uses of Ground Elder
Medieval monks cultivated ground elder as a medicinal plant, but it later earned a reputation of a nuisance weed thanks to its rapid growth. … Continue
EP25: Edible acorns – the forgotten food
Acorns are a massive, under-utilised and forgotten food source. Join Robin Harford (your host) and Marcie Mayer (Europe’s foremost acorn food producer), as they … Continue
The Traditional and Modern Uses of Oak
Oak is arguably Britain’s most beloved tree and can live up to 800 years. The fruit it bears – the acorn – has been … Continue
The Traditional and Modern Uses of Guelder Rose (Crampbark)
Guelder rose berries have fed and healed people in many cultures. They have become part of European and Native American cuisines. They appear in … Continue
Pickled Rosehips
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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
The Traditional and Modern Uses of Selfheal
Selfheal is a forgotten healer that has made a recent comeback as a modern-day heal-all with promising potential for use in food and medicine. … Continue
The Traditional and Modern Uses of Yarrow
Yarrow is the herb of a million flowers, thanks to its prolific foliage. This wild edible has been used in food and medicine since … Continue
EP24: Nutritional cultural identity
Masanobu Fukuoka’s one-straw revolution inspired Krishna Mckenzie to start his own organic farm in Auroville, Tamil Nadu, India. In this interview he talks about … Continue
The Traditional and Modern Uses of Rowan (Mountain Ash)
Rowan or Mountain Ash is an ancient tree used since ancient times. The berries provide a variety of wild edible delights and offer a … Continue
The Traditional and Modern Uses of Broad-leaved dock
Docks have grown in Britain since three ice ages ago, and remains of dock have been found in places where people once farmed, such … Continue
The Traditional and Modern Uses of Daisy
Introduction Daisy, a humble little flower that is widespread in many parts of the world. A children’s favourite for making ‘daisy chains’ or ‘fairy … Continue
The Traditional and Modern Uses of Meadowsweet
Sweetly scented meadowsweet was famous as a strewing herb and as a flavouring for mead. It later gained recognition as one of the plants that … Continue