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Wild Cherry: Exploring Types, Identification, and Edibility of its Fruit
The United Kingdom is home to a variety of native trees, each with its own unique characteristics and contributions to the ecosystem....
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Welcome to the Wild Foodie's Wild Food and Foraging Blog. Here we love to share information on the wonderful flora and fauna available to the wild cook. Blogs and guides about wild edible plants and foraging for wild food. Find recipes, identification tips, foraging stories and adventures alongside seasonal suggestions and foraging calenders and so much more.
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The Beech Tree and its Beechnuts
The Fagaceae family includes the beech, oak, and chestnut. The tree's species name, Fagus sylvatica, relates to its woodland habitat....
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Cep or Penny Bun Mushroom Look-Alikes
The Boletus family of mushrooms in the UK comprises a diverse group of fungi with distinctive features such as caps, pores instead of...
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Wild Blackthorn or Sloe Identification and.. Sloe Gin Recipes
Sloe or blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) is a small, thorny wild shrub native to the UK and other parts of Europe. It belongs to the rose...
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Meadowsweet: The Sweet Relief Herb
Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria) is a plant native to the UK and other parts of Europe. It is a perennial herb that grows in damp...
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Wild Rose or Dog Rose (Rosa canina)
The wild rose, also known as the dog rose, is a species of flowering plant that belongs to the Rosa genus within the Rosaceae family. Its...
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Common Yarrow: The Healing Herb
Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) or common yarrow has a rich history of being consumed as food throughout ancient times. Also called old...
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Sea Buckthorn and its Super Berries
Sea buckthorn, scientifically known as Hippophae rhamnoides, is a deciduous shrub that is native to Europe and Asia. It is renowned for...
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The ever so.. Giant Puffball Mushroom
One of the more amazing mushrooms is one that will suddenly appear in a field or on the border of a wood, almost the size of a football....
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Blackberries or Bramble, the Humblest of the Wild Fruits
The humble blackberry or bramble, easy to identify and the starting point for even the newest of foragers, but what do we really know...
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Wild Horseradish: Identifying and harvesting the hottest roots.
At a distance wild horseradish or Armoracia rusticana is a common plant could be readily confused with dock. On closer inspection, the...
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Good King Henry or Lincolnshire spinach
Good King Henry or Chenopodium bonus-henricus like most herbs has a multitude of names including; Perennial goosefoot, Lincolnshire...
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The Sweet Cicely plant
Sweet Cicely or Myrrhis odorata, also known as cicely, myrrh, garden myrrh, and sweet chervil, is a herbaceous perennial plant of the...
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Magnolia Flower: Edibility, Uses and Recipes
Magnolias are well-known for their beautiful blooms and striking white, cream, pink, or purplish flowers. These popular decorative trees...
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Hawthorn leaves, flowers, buds and berries and what to do with them
The Hawthorn, or Crataegus monogyna is one of the most common native trees in the UK. The hawthorn or can be readily found in the...
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Field Blewit and Wood Blewits
Blewits get their name the French meaning of Blue or 'Bleuet'. Although not blue, the purple - blue staining on the stems is the first...
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Chickweed: The Edible and Delicious Weed
Chickweed (Stellaria media), also known as Common Chickweed, Maruns, Stitchwort, Starweed, Chickenwort, Craches, or Winterweed is a prime...
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Edible Seaweed: Foraging Gourmet Types of Seaweeds in the UK
Seaweeds can be found and foraged all around the UK. There are thousands of types of seaweed distributed across all the world's oceans, ...
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Wild Sorrel identification, their uses and some delicious Sorrel Recipes
The many types of Wild Sorrel including the more commonly known (and foraged) Common Sorrel, Sheep's Sorrel and Wood Sorrel. The green...
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Few Flowered Garlic Identification and Recipes
I live by a river and I am lucky enough that my garden runs alongside the river. Every year I get a crop of this quite common, but...
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