wildfood Tag Posts Index

If You're Not Roasting Saffies, You're Doing it Wrong 🍄

Oh man it's been a great season for saffron milk cap mushrooms, common in pine forests round here. ON the way back from a trip to country Victoria we stopped past

🌸A Spring Woodland Mushroom Mound

During spring, nothing inspires me more than the sight of beautiful blooms and fresh new shoots. I thought it would be something worth celebrating with mushrooms

New Plants (Knowledge) and Rekindling Embodied Wisdom

Dear Homesteading and Hive Friends! This is an exciting and upwelling week: I've finally managed to identify a few plants, one of which I've been asking around,

🌱 Spring Foraging & Microgreens: Wild Edible Greens and Their Nutritional Benefits 🌿

One of the best things I love doing around this time is brisk walking and collecting micro-salad greens every morning. The weather has improved, and I can definitely

🌹🍷 Fungi Friday Special: Wood Ear Christmas Delight

An afternoon fungi hunt, as usual, the sun is atleast trying, but the breeze was bitterly cold and though I was all wrapped up and warm, I could feel it nibbling

Crunchy Cordyceps with Blackberry & Mint Sorbets

To the woods for a fungi hunt today, but I came back with blackberries instead of mushrooms! So I decided to be experimental with my leftover cordyceps, after a

Crisped by the Sun: Foraged Oyster Mushrooms & a Savoury Wild Mushroom Biscuit Recipe

Earlier last night, I set out to a nearby woodland, just across this field, to pick the dried oyster mushrooms I had spotted a couple of days ago. I’d been waiting

Woodland Wanders and Homemade Rustic Bolete Mushroom Pizza

I went on a fungi hunt today and enjoyed the lush surroundings; everything was in bloom. I wandered deeper into the woods than usual and ended up near a fallen tree

🌿 Princess Kate's New Found Hobby: Foraging, A Sustainable Lifestyle

Source Princess Kate is setting a good example for everyone—not just by showing that foraging is fun and relaxing, but it also promotes a lifestyle that focuses

A Day in Nature with Delicious Mushroom-Lentil Patties

As the weather improved, I decided to go for a brisk walk and stopped at a woodland for a Fungi Friday hunt. I noticed a few of these—possibly hairy curtain crust.

Early Spring Foraging: Tender Baby Greens Bursting with Flavour & Nutrition

Although it is a bit cold, it has been dry and sunny today, which inspired me to check if anything is sprouting as spring approaches. My favourite baby greens are

Lacto-Fermented Hogweed Sauce: A Wild and Tasty Experiment

Three years ago, I decided to lacto-ferment some hogweed shoots just to see what would happen I didn’t have a plan for them at the time, so the jar ended up tucked

Golden Crispy Spring Rolls with Wood Ear Mushrooms: A Winter Treat

With the weather at -2°C today, I stayed mostly indoors. As part of my routine, I usually go for a walk every Friday, but today I only managed a short stroll. The

One Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away

How much do you Love Apples? Ugly little things but so yummy! Be warned, this is a re-post from our instagram account which can be found under the tag @mugwortexpress.

Wild Mushroom Quiche: A Delicious Harvest of Velvet Shanks and Exotic Mushrooms

This afternoon, I went on a fungi hunt. With the days growing shorter, I found myself needing a flashlight by 2 pm. I revisited the woodland where I spotted baby

Foraging in Frost: Crispy Hogweed Fritters for an Icy Autumn Treat

It has been freezing and snowy the last couple of days. When the weather calmed down a bit, I went out foraging. I find foraging on icy days beautiful—staring at

FunGuy and FunGirl Foraging for Fungi and returning home with chestnuts...

For the last 6 weeks or so, @clareartista and I have been wanting to share a #FungiFriday post but one way or another we never got around to actually doing it, even

Picking at Sunset: A Wildly Delicious Foraged Chutney Recipe

Introducing Wild Woodland Chutney Chutney began in ancient India over 2,000 years ago, derived from the Hindi word chutnā, meaning "to lick." It was a

Foraging for Ketchup: A Simple Guide and Recipe for Berries Ketchup

Foraging is a beautiful way to connect with nature and discover fresh, wild ingredients right from the land. It turns a simple walk into an exciting adventure, where

Mixed Wild Mushroom and Pork Dumplings: A Delicious Fungi Friday Treat

What a lucky fungi hunt today! I stumbled upon a variety of mushrooms right by our lawn and couldn't resist turning them into a special treat for the whole family!