Home Start West Dorset | Foraging Blog (c) 2012 | http://www.wild-food.net http://www.wild-food.net/feature/Foraging+Blog Recent Posts from en alacrify simple cms (c) 2009 - 2012 Sat, 19 May 2012 07:29:46 +0100 1 Locked in a Room I have been locked in my "office" for three months now writing a new book and I am starting to look paler and weedier than usual. ... http://www.wild-food.net/feature/Foraging+Blog/16 2012-04-17 Predicting the mushroom season and cider. Every year people ask me what the mushroom season will be like, that is – when it will arrive and how big the crop. I always tell them and ... http://www.wild-food.net/feature/Foraging+Blog/15 2011-09-08 Gower and River Cottage I made a trip back to the Gower last weekend, retracing many of the steps I made while researching my Seashore Handbook. It was there that I ... http://www.wild-food.net/feature/Foraging+Blog/14 2011-08-05 Weeds We have been doing a lot of "sorting out" in and around the house this year - upgrading the loft to accomodate the large number of ... http://www.wild-food.net/feature/Foraging+Blog/13 2011-06-22 Weather and wine I took another Seashore Foray yesterday, this time for River Cottage. I have always been fairly lucky with the weather on the forty or so such trips ... http://www.wild-food.net/feature/Foraging+Blog/10 2011-05-03 An unlikely forage February is not exactly a prime month for foraging so when someone asked me last week to take himself (Tim) and Em  on a foraging trip to ... http://www.wild-food.net/feature/Foraging+Blog/8 2011-03-01 Winter Foraging Before Christmas most foraging would have required a pick axe and x-ray vision - everything was frozen solid and, mostly, hidden by snow. A winter ... http://www.wild-food.net/feature/Foraging+Blog/7 2011-01-06 Truffles It has been a very good year so far and I just hope it will continue to be good until at least the first week of November. My forays are in full ... http://www.wild-food.net/feature/Foraging+Blog/6 2010-10-07 Christopher Robin On Friday I went to Clarence House to take part in a forum on sustainability. I was part of a panel which included Lord Marland and Paul Heiney, and ... http://www.wild-food.net/feature/Foraging+Blog/5 2010-09-17 Back from foreign parts I spent the last half of August in Tunisia on a family holiday. It was our first sun and sea holiday for five years so I think we had earned it. I ... http://www.wild-food.net/feature/Foraging+Blog/4 2010-09-06 Cherry Plums and things Many species are hard to come by and when you do find them are found in depressingly small quantities. Strawberries, redcurrants, raspberries all ... http://www.wild-food.net/feature/Foraging+Blog/3 2010-08-11 New Book and Blackberries It is very exciting to have my new book "Hedgerow" in the shops. Always a worry though - are there any mistakes? I am assured by a ... http://www.wild-food.net/feature/Foraging+Blog/2 2010-08-04 Dry Spring It has been a dry spring and I have seen very little in the way of fungi this year. The recent rain should bring a few of the early species up - look ... http://www.wild-food.net/feature/Foraging+Blog/1 2010-07-01