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…
‘Well, we believe that the real measure of modern success is nothing to do with your bank balance or the size of your house, but instead, the amount of free time you have at your disposal. We think disposable time, as a resource to strive for and spend, counts for much more than disposable income.…
