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foraged food

Chickpea Nettle Burgers

I now have nettle burgers to add to my lexicon of favourite nettle recipes (which also includes nettle pesto, nettle pizza, and nettle spanakopita!). These burgers are mega tasty, super nutritious, and easy to make with a food processor. The ingredients: nettles (of course), your favourite bean (chickpeas or any white bean work well), cumin …

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gooseberry and elderflower cordial

Gooseberry and Elderflower Cordial

When I saw this recipe for gooseberry and elderflower cordial in Fiona Beckett’s book How to Drink Without Drinking, I knew I had to try it. Elderflowers are a highlight of my early summer foraging routine and I’m always looking for new ways to use them. Elderflower cordial is always the first thing I make. …

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elderflower cordial cocktail

Elderflower Cordial Cocktail

This elderflower cordial cocktail is affectionately called “the bump start” by me and its friends. Feel free to read the origin story below, a tale of adventure of a different kind than you’ll normally see on this website. Or scroll to the bottom for the recipe (mocktail suggestion included). If you made elderflower cordial this …

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Wild Elderflower Cordial

Wild elderflower cordial is a spring foraging classic, one of my first go-to recipes when the elderflowers start to appear in the hedgerows in May. But this cordial isn’t just for drinking with sparkling water; it’s endlessly versatile. You can use it to make cakes, ice cream, cocktails, and more. That said, it’s worth making …

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How to make Dandelion Jam from fresh dandelion petals

Dandelion Jam

Dandelions are proliferous in spring and this dandelion jam recipe is a great way to encapsulate their cheerful yellow petals into a delightful jam. The resulting dandelion jam has an almost honey-like quality. Springtime in a jar.  Dandelion jam is super easy to make from foraged dandelion heads. The most laborious part is picking enough …

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Pickled blackberries

Spiced Pickled Blackberries

These pickled blackberries have become an autumn ritual with the autumn blackberry glut.  The original recipe comes from  All Good Things Around Us by Pamela Michael (copyright 1981), recommended to me by Tim from Homewood Cheeses. This book is a great source of inspiration for all kinds of “good things” found in the wild. Sick …

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Nettle spanakopita recipe

Nettle Spanakopita

One of my favourite all time uses for foraged nettles is this recipe for nettle spanakopita. This Greek filo pie is traditionally made with spinach, but we’ve used nettles which work amazingly well here. To make this spanakopita you’ll need quite a lot of nettles, so involve your friends in the picking if you can, …

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Though I love the mountains I think at my heart I’m a woods person. (Must have been all those childhood camping trips to Wisconsin!) Kept it super local this weekend with walks out my back door including this little birch wood with a pipsqueak of a hill that feels a bit like another planet compared to the surrounding meadows. A nice little spot to listen the birds and indulge in some deep thoughts…. 
“…I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree,
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.”
- Robert Frost
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#trees #birch #birchtrees #woods #forest #robertfrost #poetry #birdsong #cotswolds #wiltshire #lowermoorfarm #wiltswildlife #wildlife #naturelover #nature #countryside #countrysidewalks #britishcountryside #wiltshirelife #wiltshirecountryside #britishcountryside #ukhikers #hikersuk #hikersbritain #hikersofinstagram #hikemoreworryless
Sunset at the homestead. A little let down by the Sunset at the homestead. A little let down by the tent. Why on earth the Terra Nova Laser Competition “2” doesn’t come with guy ropes by design is a mystery to me! Fortunately this is not my tent. 😂
A couple van updates. Kind of boring, but pre-requ A couple van updates. Kind of boring, but pre-requisites to something exciting: walls! I’m going for a rustic cabin look with wooden cladding. However, with absolutely zero straight edges in the FTC there’s no getting away from some exposed metal bits. So I’m covering these with gray 4-way stretch automotive carpet. I’m also working on a coffee-inspired shallow shelving area in one of the recesses - not totally sure I’ll pull it off but I’m compelled to try… this van is super small so every inch of space counts! Other things: added extra insulation to the van cavities; started wiring up lights and switches (still need to figure out what leisure battery I need); enjoyed a beautiful sunset. Tomorrow should see some walls going in!
Never forget your roots. I was a late bloomer to w Never forget your roots. I was a late bloomer to wild camping. Wasn’t a thing in the USA. At least where I lived. So here in hideously inappropriate clothing I found myself thanks to basically being lazy on the coast to coast walk. circa 2006. And life has never been the same! #coasttocoast #wildcampinguk🏕🏞🔦🇬🇧
Bothies on the brain! But this one's a slightly di Bothies on the brain! But this one's a slightly different story, etched in my mind as "The Horrible Bothy". This is a tale of Type 3 fun in the Black Mountains, an ill-fated night that defied all romantic tales I read about in books. Told from the smallest bothy in the MBA, Grwyne Fawr. I think I would have slept more comfortably in a coffin. If you feel like reading it, you can find the link in my profile (see "Latest Blog Posts") or head over to https://eatsleepwild.com/blog/ ⠀
Excerpt: ⠀
"I generally find bothies a bit spooky on my own. And even with a friend, that latent fear of meeting other people is off-putting. Apparently some people actually enjoy the social element of bothies which is the exact opposite of why I go to these wild remote places in the first place. But I digress again.⠀
Another lesson…⠀
Tents are best. And in poor or very cold weather, making bothy times at home with candles and whisky is pretty damn good, too."⠀
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#blackmountains #breconbeacons #wales #visitwales #wildcamping #wildcampinguk #wildcampingwales #bothy #bothylife #bothyvibes #bothystories #bothybagging #nationalparksuk #osmaps #ordnancesurvey #getoutside #grwynefawr #grwynefawrbothy #grwynefawrreservoire #reservoire #views #hillwalking #wilderness #wildplaces #nature #outdoors #hiking #hikersuk #ukhikers
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