Friday, August 15, 2008
By Mike on Friday, August 15, 2008, 21:48
August 15 2008 - We tried walking the Hamble Valley Strawberry Trail from Hamble Point up to Manor Farm, but kept getting lost. Fortunately, our random detours took us past some great wild food resources - some nice blackberries, a row of wild plum trees heavy with fruit and a planted rose hedge bearing lots of ripe rose hips.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
By Mike on Thursday, August 14, 2008, 20:40
People have been drying fruit for storage for millennia - and probably the most familiar dried fruit - at least in Britain - is the prune. Prunes are just dried plums - how hard can it be to make them? Let's find out...
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
Thursday, July 17, 2008
By Mike on Thursday, July 17, 2008, 14:27
July 2008 - I went for a stroll down by the Hamble estuary at Manor Farm Country Park and discovered a big patch of Marsh Mallow.
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.
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