‘Gather some washed up cuttlefish bone the next time you hit the coast. Grind out the bone – it becomes powder – with a cut-throat razor. Forage some wild fennel seeds, and crush them using a mortar and pestle. Mix both together and you’ve got yourself a toothpaste that keeps your teeth clean, your breath…
I always feel I have to write an amazing blog after a period of rest, but those are my expectations…so here is an average catch up. Yesterday welcomed me after Imbolc into the awakening of the plants and abundance once again on our hedges at this time of year. Letting that feeling of urgency pass,…
Eating wild food doesn’t mean hours collecting, preparing and cooking for one meal. Wild Hedge veg and store cupboard condiments can help. I pulled over on the coast road the other day, late so a bit rushed and after buying hedge veg (vegetables sold in boxes on the side of the road) I needed…
D’Arcy spent time with Neil Sowerby and here’s his article…… http://www.liverpoolconfidential.co.uk/travel/footloose-and-foraging-free-in-Guernsey ‘D’ARCY Brimson flickers a fire into life with a flint. We’re out on the rocks below Guernsey’s Fort Grey Shipwreck Museum on Roquaine Bay. All around is seaweed that forager D’Arcy and his partner Tara put to any number of culinary uses but our…
We started a ‘Growing Community’ group here at WildGuernsey where we’d meet around the wheel of the year and cycle of the sun (Solstice, Imbolc etc.), make no-dig beds, tend to seedlings, eat together, chat over weeds, grow food if we were lucky! After observing this group and interacting, I realised that it is not…
Finally after 4 years, they like carrots. A volunteer plants out carrots and we pull some up…big ones, tasty ones. Cutting Ivy for ‘Pink and Ivy’ our milking Herd of 2! Discovering in the Forest Garden, untouched and slowly maturing, waiting for a little nurturing: ground cover of wild strawberries, sea kale, fennel, bramble and…
Whilst D’Arcy foraged with guests staying on the land and I cleaned up after baking cheese straws with seaweed for the workshop, I finally found time to finish the details to sell our boat with Apollo duck (http://www.apolloduck.co.uk/feature.phtml?id=433954). She grabbed a persons attention last weekend when, after a meal at Beaucette Marina restaurant, he called to view her which started off the…
