Sunday, August 10, 2008
By Mike on Sunday, August 10, 2008, 12:23
I came across a reference in one of my wild food books, stating that the flowers of the Lime tree (Tilia spp.), ground up together with the fruits of the same, yielded a substance resembling chocolate. Here's an attempt to replicate that...
Saturday, August 9, 2008
By Mike on Saturday, August 9, 2008, 14:43
Time to get a bit more adventurous with this wild food thing - I'm going to try eating snails.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
By Mike on Thursday, August 7, 2008, 20:20
Due to an inconvenient frost at blossom time, or something like that, it's generally not been a good year for plums here - or so everybody tells me. However, there's always an exception - and I found it - a few wild plum trees in a sheltered hedgerow near my house, groaning under the weight of their own fruit.
Monday, August 4, 2008
By Mike on Monday, August 4, 2008, 21:18
04 August 2008 - Out for another walk exploring the Solent coast - this time from Stoke Battery to Gilkicker Point - we found some large patches of Rock Samphire
Sunday, July 27, 2008
By Mike on Sunday, July 27, 2008, 16:18
A trip out to the New Forest in hope of finding wild mushrooms or bilberries - we found neither, but found instead some nice, ripe, plump Rowan berries
Sunday, July 20, 2008
By Mike on Sunday, July 20, 2008, 20:22
We made a trip out to the New Forest we made in hope of finding wild mushrooms or bilberries - we found neither, but found instead Rowan berries and crab apples
Saturday, July 12, 2008
By Mike on Saturday, July 12, 2008, 09:36
Lime trees are full of fragrant blossom here in the south of England.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
By Mike on Saturday, June 28, 2008, 13:04
A trip out to Crab Wood, near Winchester to enjoy a walk in the woods, and to pick wild strawberries.
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
By Mike on Wednesday, June 25, 2008, 21:45
While we were out walking at Keyhaven, I happened to notice large amounts of Crow Garlic
Sunday, June 22, 2008
By Mike on Sunday, June 22, 2008, 14:45
I took the family to Keyhaven with the intention of fishing for spider crabs off the rocks of Hurst Spit, but this plan was foiled by high winds - whipping up the solent into big swells and breakers - crabbing was definitely not on the cards.
Determined not to return home empty-handed, we went for a walk around Keyhaven harbour and out beside the salt marsh toward Lymington. There, we found Marsh Samphire in great abundance.
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