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Unique crops to grow in this year’s garden including vegetables from around the world, edible flowers and weeds, plants that produce food for years, and unexpected vegetables When you grow your own food, the culinary world can be your oyster. You can grow common, easy-to-grow vegetables, of course, but you can also choose to add…
Easy to make elderflower cordial recipe using fresh elderflowers and lemon juice. Makes three bottles that you can use in refreshing summer drinks, or to make edible flower desserts and recipes. June signals one major event in my foraging year — elderflowers. These creamy white umbels of sweet and fragrant flowers grow on elder trees…
Elderberry jelly recipe with elderberries, lemon juice, sugar, and pectin. Makes an excellent preserve that can be served in both sweet and savory dishes This time of the year, hedgerows are beginning to fill with autumn bounty. Rose-hips, crab apples, mushrooms, blackberries, and one of my favourites — elderberries. Rich in vitamin C and sweet…
Many easy to identify wild foods are ripe for the picking from August to October. That makes autumn the best time for beginners to start foraging. It’s mid-September and there’s a wild abundance in the hedgerows, parks, and municipal plantings. Just yesterday I noticed a tree covered in crab apples outside a local post office….
How to dry and use rose hips for tea. Tips on picking rose hips, three ways to dry them, and instructions on how to brew them in a tea pot It’s that time of year again and the hedgerows are heaving with fruit. With most people intent on collecting juicy blackberries, the bright red but…
Instructions and recipe for sweet and citrusy elderflower champagne. One of the best wild-foraged drink recipes that you’ll ever try Making elderflower champagne is a lot easier than you’d imagine. All you need are freshly picked elderflowers, or dried ones in a pinch, champagne yeast and a few other ingredients. Once this recipe is finished…
The best herbal tea I’ve ever tasted It’s a rare thing for me to be wowed by a cup of tea. More of a coffee person, I’ll have tea when I’m not feeling well or when I think my caffeine level might be a bit too high. So when Josh kept pestering me to try…