Kitchen Garden Guide
Foraging
Foraging tips and recipes. Always forage responsibly. Ask permission and be 100% sure the ID before eating wild plants or fungi.
Top Tips
Mugwort
It is said that if you hang a bunch of mugwort above your bed you will dream of your future love! Here’s Vicky with some stories about this fascinating plant.
Respect your Elders
The Elder tree has long been the subject of many folklore traditions. Remember to always ask for permission from the tree when harvesting elder!
Rosehips
St John's Wort
OmVed Gardens’ Vicky has some fun facts and tips about rose hips.
How to Make St John's Wort Oil
St John’s Wort is a traditional European medicinal plant that has been used as far back as the ancient Greeks.
Wild Garlic: Identification, Foraging, Recipes, Preservation
Here is everything you need to know about foraging and using wild garlic all in one handy place.
How to Tap Birch Water
How to enjoy a delicious glass of birch water.
Recipes
Wild Garlic Salt
Here’s a really simple way to preserve wild garlic and enjoy it throughout the year, by Josephine Marchandise,
Plantain Buds on Toast
Plantain buds, also known as ribwort or plantago, are abundant in the UK throughout spring and summer. This ‘weed’ tastes just like mushrooms!
Foraged Turkey Tail Tea
Turkey tail is a medicinal mushroom that's full of antioxidants and other compounds
Dandelion Frittata
Chef Jo has a recipe for a frittata with a difference - making use of freshly foraged dandelion leaves, which are packed full of delicious goodness!
Dandelion flower liquor
A delicious little tipple featuring our favourite so-called “weed” the dandelion. Here’s Chef Jo with simple steps to follow for the perfect springtime cocktail.
Dandelion Root Coffee
Swap your morning coffee for a caffeine-free alternative straight from the garden.
Wild Garlic Stock Cubes
You can have wild garlic stock all year round with Jo's iced stock cube recipe - inspired by l’escargot, but without the snails!
Wild Garlic Powder
Wild Garlic Powder using foraged wild garlic and three cornered leeks.
Cold Cleaver Infusion
According to folklore, this refreshing and detoxifying herb infusion will inspire people to fall in love with you.
Magnolia Flower Pickle
Here’s Jo's super simple way to pickle them and enjoy magnolia flowers all year round.
Kim & Vicky's Nettle Tincture
Nettles are full of all the essential vitamins and minerals you need for healthy skin, hair, nails and bone.
Stories
Re-Indigenising the Land
Harnessing the guiding light of their traditions and beliefs, the Indigenous Manobo youth of Bukidnon, in the Philippines, are leading the way in preserving their land and culture.
Grasping the Nettle
When Aletta Harrison moved from nature-rich South Africa to Britain, she found a sense of belonging in an unexpected place – Kent’s ‘weed’-filled hedgerows.
Radical Roots
In this practical guide to radical kinship, everyone from urban dwellers to farmers follow the journey of rerooting and rewilding through myth-telling as we step into the sensory realms of the more-than-human world.