Yazan: Dave | 17 April 2013 | 1 Comment
Categories: foraging, Wild foods
Nettle Haggis Nettle Haggis is perhaps one of the cheapest recipes I’ve ever made (especially if you leave out the bacon) and one of the first to feature on Self-Sufficientish back when the site started in 2004. It’s particularly good in the Spring with fresh new nettle along with a good handful of wild garlic [...]
Yazan: Dave | 17 March 2013 | 3 Comments
Categories: foraging, Uncategorized, Wild foods
If you think about wild food do you picture a woodland miles from anywhere full of unusual plants and mushrooms with strange unpronounceable names? Perhaps foraging is something you know a little about and you regularly take your well thumbed copy of ‘food for free’ on long country walks trying desperately to find some of [...]
Yazan: Dave | 12 December 2012 | 1 Comment
Categories: Courses, foraging, Wild foods
Family Foraging Courses/Group Foraging Courses Don’t see a course in your area? Want an unique Christmas present? Think you could get between a group of 2 to 14 people together who would like to go on a wild food walk? Then email Dave (dave (at) selfsufficientish.com) with a list of preferred dates and locations, if you find one mutually [...]
Yazan: Dave | 09 October 2012 | 3 Comments
Categories: foraging, Wild foods
Stag Horn Sumac – Rhus typhina The Forager’s Lemon Sumac is one of those plants you may have seen a thousand times but never really realised it had an edible use. It’s not a truly wild plant in the UK but it does readily escape from gardens as it sends up suckers when the roots [...]
Yazan: Dave | 02 October 2012 | 4 Comments
Categories: Budget living, foraging, Homemade, Lifestyle and Recipes, Uncategorized, Wild foods
During most of my autumn courses I either run through how to make hawthorn ketchup or I have some on hand to try (preferable both!). This year I thought I would at least get round to having the recipe up whilst they are in season . This makes a very red and very delicious ketchup [...]
Yazan: Dave | 27 July 2012 | 4 Comments
Categories: foraging, Home Brew, Lifestyle and Recipes, Wild foods
Town planners of 20th century often included cherry trees in their planting schemes as they loved the blossom. The fruit was something of an afterthought, but not for us foragers. It has meant that added to the list of usual places to hunt for cherries you should include housing estates and parks. You will more [...]
Yazan: Dave | 30 May 2012 | 2 Comments
Categories: foraging, Fruit growing, General Gardening, Wild foods
Fuchsia Both the flowers and berries of the fuchsia are edible. There are even recipes for fuchsia berry jam! The flavour varies from juicy to petrol like. Season – All year round in some parts of the country, will die back in hard frost Hops We all know that hop flowers help flavour beer but [...]
Yazan: Dave | 26 May 2012 | No Comments
Categories: About Us, Budget living, Enivronmentally friendly, Events, foraging, Reference, Uncategorized, Wild foods
Dave Hamilton is a freelance writer, forager, garden tutor and garden consultant. His main work is as a garden writer and in this capacity he has written for (amongst others) BBC Gardener’s World Magazine, The Guardian and Grow Your Own. He co-authored the Self-Sufficient-ish Bible with his brother Andy and wrote the award winning book [...]
Yazan: Andy Hamilton | 06 April 2012 | 2 Comments
Categories: foraging, Videos, Wild foods
Winter is becoming like last night’s dream and any hazy reminders of its presence are starting to seem out of place. On seemingly dead wood once a tightly packed parcels have now opened to reveal their true nature, these little green miracles are growing with such vigour they are changing the landscape daily. It might [...]
Yazan: admin | 20 March 2012 | 7 Comments
Categories: foraging, Wild foods
I love this season as its a time when gardening, nature spotting, foraging and home brewing can all start in earnest. Its a time when food starts to appear, everywhere. Here are my favorite wild plants to expect in March almost anywhere in the UK and across much of North America. These foods were all found in [...]
