Food

West Cornwall’s beaches and hedgerows are bursting with wild food all year round, but what should you look out for on your rambles? Local foraging expert and walks leader Rachel Lambert helps point the way…

As Spring approaches the first sign of the impending abundance wild food is often Wild Garlic. Lime flowers are usually found later in the Spring, and can be used in soothing herbal tisanes…

If you are walking by the shore this winter look out for the small shellfish locally available; cockles, mussels , winkles and the lovely long razor clams can be enjoyed throughout the winter months; they all have an ‘r’ in them…

Autumn is a great time for ‘red’ fruits. Rowanberries, Sloes, Blackberries and Elderberries are very common hedgerow fruits you can find all over the country…

Walk’s resident wild foodie on what to look for this season…

Spring is a great time to visit the seaside and an ideal time to go rock-pooling, with seaweeds at their best…

The first severe frosts of winter will no doubt finish off most of the edible foods in the woods and pastures, but it is still worth looking out for the hardy few…

Hazelnuts, Sweet Chestnuts, Blackberries, Elderberries, Crab Apples and Sloes: just some of nature’s autumn wild harvest which surrounds us as we walk…

Summer fruits are on their way, with wild strawberries to pick from the hedgerows, bilberries starting to ripen in the sun and, a little later, wild cherries. There was a lot of blossom this year so hopefully a good harvest [...]

Spring is here and nature’s larder is well and truly open for business. The first good edible fungi to look out for are St George’s Mushrooms, Calocybe gambosa, commonly found near woodland edges or sometimes in rings in unimproved grassland. [...]