A-Foraging We Will Go!

I love the word ‘foraging’.  And I the love the idea of it….wandering the fields and moors each day, plucking a leaf or two here, picking a few berries there, maybe unearthing the occasional mushroom.  Then carrying my bounty home in a little basket and feasting on fresh, wild food.

‘Tis a nice idea but, in reality, my foraged finds extend only as far as nettles, dandelion leaves, elderflowers, blackberries and bilberries.  Then I get stuck.  Not sure what’s safe to eat.  Not sure what tastes good.

So this weekend, I’m off to Suffolk to learn to forage from an expert.  Robin Harford of Eat Weeds will be teaching me and a few other folk how to gather our own dinners from Mother Nature’s larder.  And then we get to the feasting bit (no lessons required there).

I‘m so looking forward to it!  My little basket is at the ready….