Foraging, December 2008
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Made tea with some gorse flowers - I hadn't realised they flowered all year round - but I think the frost had ensured that they were passed their best - tasted like hot water.
Time to close this one down methinks.
I'll list all the things we have found and then start a new thread titled January 2009.
Thanks to everyone who contributed :You_Rock_
atb,
M
Dandelion greens
Danedelion roots for coffee (quite nice, a bite but a sweetish bite to it)
Hairy bittercress.
St John's wort
Lady's smock
Nettles (fresh growth )
Sycamore seeds
Rosehips
Plantain seeds
Pine needles
Alder catkins
Brambles (old fruits, and fresh leaf buds)
Mint
Fresh dockens
Heartsease flowers
Some very withered wild strawberries
Ransom leaves are coming through, didn't eat them but they're coming up.
I have picked a lot of rosehips this month, I made rosehip sauce for the christmas goose. They are lovely vitamin kick to winter food.
I found some tiny wild apples that weren't bitter at all today.
Sorrel
Mahonia flowers
goosefoot
wintercress
I could get some bulrush root but I dont facy putting my hands in muddy water when it is so cold.
I have put some burdock seed on the lotty so I can legally get some root for next winter.
Oyster mushrooms
I came across some freeze dried red clover flowers this morning, it's been perishing here.
Just Penny / Navel Worts and Wood Sorrel today.
Gorse in bloom yesterday, and the white heather has just opened. Both are edible but more useful for making drinks, I think.
I'll list all the things we have found and then start a new thread titled January 2009.
Thanks to everyone who contributed :You_Rock_
atb,
M
Dandelion greens
Danedelion roots for coffee (quite nice, a bite but a sweetish bite to it)
Hairy bittercress.
St John's wort
Lady's smock
Nettles (fresh growth )
Sycamore seeds
Rosehips
Plantain seeds
Pine needles
Alder catkins
Brambles (old fruits, and fresh leaf buds)
Mint
Fresh dockens
Heartsease flowers
Some very withered wild strawberries
Ransom leaves are coming through, didn't eat them but they're coming up.
I have picked a lot of rosehips this month, I made rosehip sauce for the christmas goose. They are lovely vitamin kick to winter food.
I found some tiny wild apples that weren't bitter at all today.
Sorrel
Mahonia flowers
goosefoot
wintercress
I could get some bulrush root but I dont facy putting my hands in muddy water when it is so cold.
I have put some burdock seed on the lotty so I can legally get some root for next winter.
Oyster mushrooms
I came across some freeze dried red clover flowers this morning, it's been perishing here.
Just Penny / Navel Worts and Wood Sorrel today.
Gorse in bloom yesterday, and the white heather has just opened. Both are edible but more useful for making drinks, I think.
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