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Plant and Fungi Identification Apps: Careful Now!

I welcome the way plant and fungi ID apps can bring the pleasures of foraging to a wider audience, but there is a danger that some users place too much faith in them at the cost of developing their own skills and relationships with plants and fungi, and the ecosystems of which they are part.

Wild Food Mentor

A wild food mentoring service to help you connect more deeply with tasty, nutritious, free food. Run on a pay-as-you-feel basis.

Foraging during the Corona Virus Pandemic

Some ideas on how to responsibly connect with wild plants during the Corona Virus lockdown, including helpful weeds you can find in gardens or any green space.

Sea Aster - Identification, Edibility, Distribution

Sea aster is one of many gastronomic delights you can gather easily and sustainably on the salty water margin. It hangs out with other stars of the wild food world like Marsh samphire, sea purslane, sea arrowgrass, sea plantain, annual sea blight, scurvy grass and orache and i'm pretty envious of the sheep that get to graze these delicacies.

Dulse - Identification, Edibility, Distribution

Though not strong in flavour, dulse is one of the stars of the seaweed world - a clinically proven antioxidant and source of protein, potassium and iodine, making it an excellent treatment for hypothyroid problems...

Elder Tree, Elderflower and Elderberry Identification, Edibility and Distribution

Elderflowers are one of natures finest edible treasures and for me, the signature wild food of early summer. In autumn elder berries offer quite different, but equally rich delights for hedgerow preservers.